Acalypha. | CXXI, EUPHORBIACEE (HUTCHINSON). 885 
partly, not of Hochst. icinocarpus peduncularis, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 
Fi ii. 618. 
Mozamb. Distr. British Central Africa: Nyasaland; plateau of Mount 
Zomba, 5000-6000 ft., Whyte! Rhodesia: Inyanga, Manika, 6000-7000 ft., Ceci/, 
179! 182! between Umtali and Inyanga mountains, Cecil, 167! Salisbury, Cecil, 
68! Engler, 3052! Rogers, 4003! Gwelo, Gardner, 33! Gazaland: Upper Buzi, 
Swynnerton, 383! 
Occurs also in Eastern South Africa. 
3. A. chirindica, S. Moore in Journ. Linn. Soe. xl. 199. A 
much-branched shrub; branches terete, glabrous; young branchlets 
twiggy, densely pubescent. Leaves rather crowded, subsessile or with 
a petiole up to 2 lin. long, obovate or oblanceolate, acuminate to a 
setose apex, narrowed to a subtruncate base, up to 44 in. long and 
1} in. broad, serrulate, membranous, rather densely pilose (at length 
less so) on both surfaces; lateral nerves about 5 on each side, distinct 
on both surfaces; stipules lanceolate, acuminate, about 2 lin. long, 
slightly pubescent. Flowers dicecious or submonecious. Male inflores- 
cences axillary on short lateral branchlets, solitary, slender, 1-14 in. 
long, rarely a very short and more or less abortive female inflorescence 
terminating each lateral branchlet; axis densely pilose. Male buds 
pubescent. Female spikes solitary, terminating short lateral branchlets 
or the main shoot, 1-23 in. long. Bracts one-flowered, subreniform in 
outline, laciniate, 2-3 lin. long (including the teeth), } in. broad (when 
spread out), pilose outside, teeth long-ciliate, nearly glabrous within. 
Sepals 3, ovate, very small, ciliate. Ovary deeply trilobed, tomentose ; 
Styles 3, finely laciniate. Seeds broadly ovoid, minutely and very 
closely pitted.—A. psilostachyoides, Pax in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, vi. 
183, in small part. 
Mozamb, Distr. British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Chikala, Purves, 16! 
plains of Zomia, (specimen malformed) Whyte, 85! Purves, 118! Shire Highlands, 
Buchanan, 22! 40! 81! 119! 703! Scott-Elliot, 8530! Rhodesian: near 
Chirinda, Swynnerton, 380! 381! 
In Buchanan, 119, and Purves, 118, the female inflorescence is paniculate, a 
condition which appears to be abnormal. 
4. A. Grantii, Baler and Hutchinson in Kew Bulletin, 1911, 230. 
A shrub about 6 ft. high; branches very shortly pubescent when 
young, soon becoming quite glabrous and terete. Leaves ovate, some- 
what caudate or gradually acuminate, acumen entire, rounded or 
subcordate at the base, 2-24 in. long, 3-1} in. broad, rather obtusely 
and coarsely serrate, subchartaceous, glabrous on both surfaces, digitately 
*nerved at the base, remaining lateral nerves 4-5 on each side, looped 
hear the margin, prominent below; petiole slender, 3-1} in. long, with 
a line of hairs in the groove on the upper side, otherwise glabrous ; 
Stipules linear, soon falling off. Flowers diwcious? males not known, 
emale spikes terminal, about 3 in. long. Bracts small, acuminate, 
minutely toothed, teeth gland-tipped, pubescent outside. Sepals 3, 
ovate, ciliate in the upper part. Ovary pilose in the upper half, not 
