886 CXXII. EUPHORBIACEE (HUTCHINSON). [ Acalypha. 
glandular ; styles 3, stout, purple, deeply laciniate, glabrous. Fruits 
and seeds not seen. 
Wile Land. Bongo: Sabbi, Schweinfurth, 2201! Uganda: Madi, Speke & 
Grant ! 
5. A. angolensis, Jill. Arg. in Journ. Bot. 1864, 335. A shrub 
4 ft. high, sparingly branched; branches slightly angular, densely 
crisped-pubescent or tomentose. Leaves ovate, rounded or subacute at 
the apex, rounded at the base, 2-4 in. long, 13-2 in. broad, rather 
coarsely crenate, less so towards the base, membranous, pubescent on 
both surfaces especially on the veins below, 5-nerved at the base, 
remaining lateral nerves 4-5 on each side, slightly raised on both 
surfaces; petiole 14-2} in. long, densely pubescent; stipules subulate, 
13-2 lin. long, setulose. Flowers dicecious, the males not known. 
Female spikes axillary, subsessile, about 4 in. long and 4 in. in diam. 
Bracts 2 lin. long, irregularly and deeply 10-12-toothed, with as many 
nerves, pilose on both sides, but more densely so on the outer. Sepals 3, 
ovate, } lin. long, whitish-pubescent outside. Ovary trilobed, small, 
loug-pilose in the upper part, glabrous below; styles 3, slightly connate 
at the base, 4 lin. long, sparingly laciniate with filiform segments. 
Fruits and seeds not known.—Miill. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. u. 830 ; 
Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 977. Ricinocarpus angolensis, O. Kuntze, 
Rev. Gen. PI. ii. 617. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Pungo Andongo; in thickets at the outskirts of 
the forest near Catete, Welwitsch, 434! 
6. A. paniculata, Miz. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. ii. 406. A sparingly 
branched herb, 2-5 ft. high; stem slightly angular or subterete, densely 
pilose with both long and short hairs, about 2 lin. in diam. 1 ft. from 
the apex.. Leaves ovate, subeordate or truncate at the base, rather 
abruptly and shortly acuminate to an acute apex, 14-3} in. long, 1-31. 
broad, coarsely crenate-serrate, membranous, usually rather spare 
setose on both surfaces, especially on the nerves, digitately series 
the insertion of the petiole, remaining lateral nerves 4-9 on each side, 
subopposite, branched and gradually fading near the margin ; peated 
nerves subparallel, very slender, 1-14 lin. apart ; petiole rather slen i 
1-3} in. long, shortly and rather densely crisped-pubescent ; yes Ro 
subulate, 2-3 lin. long, sparingly pilose outside, with a few weir 
glands here and there along the margin. Flowers monccious. ne 
racemes solitary, axillary, 23-5 in. long ; axis terete, densely puber a : 
bract subtending each duster of flowers lanceolate, 4 lin. long, garde 
ciliate ; pedicel short, pubescent. Buds very small, 4-lobed, sligh . 
apiculate, glabrous. Female flowers in a terminal oblong pane’ 
6-8 in. long; branches simple, slender, up to 24 in. long, like the pew 
axis rather densely crisped-puberulous, a few male flowers at the rt 
of each; bracts 3-flowered, one flower. only being developed, ae 
small, ciliate; pedicels 4-1 lin. long, pubescent. Sepals >, Om 
lanceolate, acute, } lin. Jong, sparingly pubescent outside. rr £ 
slightly trilobed, closely beset with smal] wart-like protuberances 
