Acalypha.) CXXII. EUPHORBIACEA (HUTCHINSON). 889 
(especially on the teeth) stipitate-glandular on the outside, glabrous 
within; teeth triangular, mucronate. Sepals 4, lanceolate, slightly 
unequal, 7 lin. long, subacute, ciliate, pubescent outside, glabrous. 
Ovary 3-4-celled, rather deeply 3-4-lobed, pubescent and with several 
long-stipitate glands in the upper half of each lobe; styles 3 or 4, 
slightly connate at the base, ascending, sparingly laciniate, purple, 
about 4 in. long. Seeds subglobose, nearly 14 lin. in diam., not visibly 
pitted, hilum large and spreading.—Miill. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 
345; Pax in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 239. A. zambesica, Miill. Arg. in 
Flora, 1864, 440, and in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 845; Pax in Engl. Pfl. 
Ost-Afr. C. 239; Gibbs in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxxvii.470. A. villicaulis, 
Miill. Arg. in DC. Prodr. l.c., partly, as to Mellor 5; Pax in Baum, 
Kunene-Samb, Exped. 283; 8. Moore in Journ, Linn. Soe, xl. 199, 
partly; not of Hochst. <A. villicaulis, var. minor, Mill. Arg. in 
Abhand]. Naturw. Ver. Bremen, vii. 26. Ricinocarpus senensis and 
zambesicus, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. ii. 618. 
Nile Land. Jur: Jur Ghattas, Schweinfurth, 2058! Uganda, Wilson, 52! 
between Nandi and Kakamagas, Whyte! British East Africa: Kitui, Hildebrandt, 
2689! and without precise locality, Hannington ! 
Lower Guinea. Angola: by the Kubango River, near Kavanga, Baum, 408! 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Useguha, Scheffler, 267! Portuguese 
East Africa: various localities, Kirk, 3! Scott! Mrs. E. Cecil,8! British Central 
Afiica: Nyasaland; various localities, Meller, 5! Miss Kenyon, 33! MeClounie, 
41! Whyte! Whyte & McClounie! Purves, 44! Scott-Elliot, 8599 partly! 
Buchanan, 26! 351! 737! 823! 1384! Adamson, 90! Rhodesia; various localities, 
Holub, 819! 820! Rogers, 8286! Sykes, 197! Miss Gibbs, 225! Engler, 3071! 
Gardner, 56! Gazaland; near Chirinda; Swynnerton, 382! Bechuanaland ; near 
Palapye, Lugard, 278! 
Var. chariensis, Hutchinson. Stems rather thicker and coarser than in the type, 
densely fulvous-hirsute with reflexed hairs; styles laciniate—A. chariensis, Beille 
m Bull. Soe. Bot. France, 1908, Mém. viii. 80. 
Upper Guinea. Northern Nigeria: Yola; Borna Road, Dulziel, 159! 
Cameroons: Garua, Ledermann, 5123! Kalgey, Ledermann, 5185! 
Worth Central. French Congo: between Krebidje and the Kimo River, 
"tapas 5495! Dar Banda; Ara, Chevalier, 7196. Fort Archambault, Chevalier, 
Var. haplostyla, Hutchinson. Stems as in the type. Styles undivided or with 
one or two small segments.—A. haplostyla, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 98; De Wild. 
Etudes Fl. Bas- et Moyen-Congo, ii. 284. 4. haplostyla, var. longifolia, De Wild. 
U. 1, 277 P 
South Central. Belgian Congo: Lunda; Lulua River, Pogge! Lukafu, 
Verdick., 
10. A. Allenii, Hutchinson in Kew Bulletin, 1911, 229. Stems 
herbaceous, about 1 ft. long, deeply grooved, very sticky with numerous 
gland-tipped hairs. Leaves ovate-lanceolate or obiong-lanceolate, mucro- 
nate, cordate at the base, 14-34 in. long, 4-1} in. broad, repand-dentate 
or denticulate, rather rigidly chartaceous, setose on both surfaces ; 
lateral nerves 6-8 on each side, the lower ascending, the upper arcuate, 
prominent on both surfaces ; tertiary nerves parallel, rather close, pro- 
Minent below; petiole }-3 in. long, glandular-pubescent ; stipules 
