888 CXXII, EUPHORBIACEE (HUTCHINSON). [ Acalypha: 
often bilobed, all ciliate and pilose on the back. Ovary long-pilose in 
the upper part, hairs intermixed with stipitate glands; styles purple, 
conspicuous, about 4 in. long, laciniate, glabrous. Seeds smooth. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Malange district, Tewscz, 163! 259! Gossweiler, 
961! 988! Benguella: Mount Elende, Wellman, 1303! 
8. A. benguelensis, Jill. Arg. in Journ. Bot. 1864, 335. A 
perennial herb, 1-14 ft. high; stems erect, shortly branched towards 
the base, angular, reflexed-setose. Leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 
obtuse or subacute, more or less cordate at the base, 1-3 in. long, 
#-1} in. broad, crenate, membranous, setose on the nerves and veins 
on both surfaces, digitately 5-nerved at the base, remaining lateral 
nerves 4-5 on each side; transverse nerves distant and indistinct ; 
petiole 3-2 in. long, setose; stipules linear-subulate, 1} lin. long, 
sparingly setulose. Flower monecious, male and female on separate 
inflorescences. Male spikes solitary in the leaf-axils near the middle 
of the shoot, pedunculate; peduncle 4-3 in. long, rather densely crisped- 
pubescent ; flowering part 3 in. long; bract subtending each cluster of 
male flowers linear, ciliate. Buds glabrescent. Female spikes terminal, 
solitary, pedunculate; peduncle 4-5 lin. long, tomentose ; flowering 
part a little over 4 in. long, 4 lin. broad. Bracts unilateral, 10-12-toothed, 
2 lin. long, 4 lin. broad when spread out, nearly glabrous within, pilose 
outside, with numerous stipitate glands on both sides of the teeth. 
Sepals 3, ovate-lanceolate, subacute, 3 lin. long, ciliate, very sparingly 
pubescent or nearly glabrous. Ovary trilobed, sparingly pubescent 
and with numerous long-stipitate glands in the upper half; styles 3, 
suberect, very slightly connate at the base, almost $ in. long, laciniate, 
with opposite filiform segments on the inner face, glabrous.—A. ben- 
guelensis, vars. trichogyne and adenogyne, Miill. Arg. l.c., and in DOs 
Prodr, xv. ii. 844; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 978. Ricinocarpus 
benguelensis, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. ii. 617. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Huilla; Dekindt, 8474! in herbaceous wooded 
places at Monino near Lopollo, Welwitsch, 435! Pungo Andongo: near the River 
Cuanza and Pungo Andongo, Welwitsch, 436! 
9. A. senensis, Klotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 96. a 
woody towards the base, angular or deeply sulcate when young, a 
densely hirsute or sometimes only tomentellous. Leaves linear-lanceo 
or lanceolate, gradually acuminate, cordate at the base, 14-7 in. ee 
3-1 in. broad, serrate, membranous, more or less hirsute or eter 
on both surfaces, 5-nerved at the base, remaining lateral nerves od: 
on each side, raised on both surfaces; transverse nerves parallel, rather 
distant, raised on both surfaces; petiole 4-1} in. long, sea 
stipules subulate-filiform, 2 lin. long, pilose. Flowers senegsre™ 
male and female on separate solitary inflorescences. Male spl 
axillary, pedunculate, 3-24 in. long; axis puberulous. Buds i y 
glabrous. Female spikes terminal, 3-1} in. long, nearly 3 I ta, 
Bracts suborbicular or reniform, 5 lin. broad (when spread out), a 
long, deeply 7-10-toothed, 10-ribbed on the outside, puberulous an® 
