PERRO RAL I 
Acalypha. ] CXXXV. EUPHORBIACER. (J. D. Hooker.) 417 
axillary sessile or peduncled androgynous, male fl. few terminal minute, 
bracts many dense or remote 1-fld. hispid many-toothed often bordered with 
gland-tipped hairs rather shorter thau the capsules. A. lanceolata, Willd. 
Sp. Pl. iv. 594. A. Wightiana, Muell. Arg. ll. e. A. hispida, Herb. 
Wight and Thwaites Enum, 971. A. ciliata & lanceolata, Herb. Heyne in 
Wall. Cat. 7780. A. flexuosa, Herb. Wight. A. virginiana, Herb. Russell 
in Wall. Cat. 7779 G. A. corchorifolia, Vahl mss. in Baill. Etudes Gen. 
Euphorb, 443. A. boehmerioides, Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 459. A. 
apicans, floribunda, villosa & collina, Heyne mss. in Herb. Rottler.—Wall. 
at. 7778. 
The DECCAN PENINSULA; from Mysore and the Circars southward, common, 
Klein, Heyne, &c. Burma, at Melloon, Wallich. CEYLON, common. DISTRIB. 
Sumatra, Java, &c. L. 
Annual, 6-18 in. high, usually branched from the base, flaccid or rather rigid, more 
or less pubescent and with sometimes long deciduous hairs on the stem as in A. 
alnifolia. Leaves very variable, 1—4 in., membranous; petiole shorter or longer 
than the limb. Spikes 1-5 in.; male fl. in a minute head concealed by the upper- 
most bracts, or produced into a minute spike; bracts 3-2 in. diam., always 1-fld., 
9-12-toothed, Capsule hispid, styles rather short, laciniate. Seeds globosely ovoid, 
nearly smooth, —I am very doubtful as to the name this species should bear; it is a 
most variable plant, and I am sure that all the synonyms quoted above belong to it. 
The three extreme forms are (1) a short robust state, with small elliptic leaves not 
above 1 in. long with the blade longer than the petiole; (2) a common form with 
broad leaves and elongate long-peduncled lax-fld. spikes, and (3) an often more lanceo- 
late-leaved form with shorter sessile dense-fld. spikes. "The flowers and fruit are the 
same in all. 
9. A. ciliata, Forsk. Fl. Æg. Arab. 162; herbaceous, leaves long- 
petioled ovate or ovate-lanceolate acuminate serrate, spikes all axillary 
sessile short androgynous, male fl. few minute terminal, bracts crowded 
1-2-fd. longer than the capsules with many nerves ending in long subulate 
hispid teeth. Muel. Arg. in Linnea xxxiv. 44, and in DC. Prodr. xv. 
u. 873; Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 676; Wight & Arn. in Ann. Nat. Hist. ii. (1839) 
111, t. 5; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 228; Thwaites Enum. 971 (excl. syn.) 
A. fimbriata, Schum. Beskr. 409; Baill. Rec. Obs. Bot. i. 272. A. ciliata, 
Herb, Heyne, and A. rubra, Herb. Wight, in Wall. Cat. 7781. i 
Western HIMALAYA, alt. 3-6000 ft., from Kashmir to Garwhal. BANDA, Edge- 
worth. The DECCAN PENINSULA, from the Concan southwards. CEYLON, not un- 
common.— Disrrrs. Arabia, Tropical Africa. . . 
Annual, 1-2 ft., rather stout, glabrous or pubescent. Leaves 2-3 in., omoun 
candate-acuminate, base cuneate or rounded; petiole usually longer than the i ade. 
Spikes rarely 1 in. long; bracts (like the calyx of a Labiate plant) hispid or glabrous, 
pale, teeth as long as the limb. Ovary sparsely hispid. Capsule glabrous ; oy 
Y quin, white, glabrous, twisted after dehiscence. Seeds globosely ovoid, nearly 
ooth. 
DOUBTFUL AND EXCLUDED SPECIES. ol 
A. HISPIDA, Burm. Fl. Ind. 303, t. 61, f. 1; Muell. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 815 
(Caturus spiciflorus, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 760), with very long spikes, minute bracts, 
and very long styles, is a garden plant only in India. 
A. CYLINDRICA, Roxb, Fl. Ind. iii. 628, is doubtfully referred by Mueller (in DC. 
l. e. 880) to the Brazilian A. Poiretii, Spr. 
47. ADENOCHLENA, Baill. 
Trees or shrubs, glabrous or stellately tomentose. Leaves alternate, 
