Acalypha. | CXXII. EUPHORBIACEZ (HUTCHINSON). 891 
rhomboid, acutely acuminate, 3 lin. long, 4 lin. broad, about: 20-toothed, 
sparingly pubescent outside; teeth more or less triangular, with stipi- 
tate glands at their base on the inner side. Sepals ovate-triangular, 
sparingly ciliate. Ovary trilobed, rather densely pilose in the upper 
half; styles 3, laciniate. Seeds ovoid, smooth, about 1 lin. long —Miill. 
Arg. in Flora, 1864, 441, incl. vars. bracteosa and pilosa, and in Linnea, 
xxXiv. 19, including preceding vars. and vars. genwina and glandulosa ; 
Pax in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 239; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 976 
(var. glandulosa) ; Th. Durand & De Wild. Contrib. Fl. Congo, i. 51, and 
Relig. Dewevr. 210; Rendle in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxxvii. 213; Th. & 
Hél. Durand, Syll. Fl. Congol. 493. A. adenotrichia, A. Rich. 1.c.'248 ; 
Mill. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 844. A. livingstoniana, Miill. Arg. 
in Flora, 1864, 440, and in DC. J.c. 833; Pax, le. A. Swynnertonii, 
S. Moore in Journ. Linn. Soc. xl. 200.  Ricinocarpus adenotrichus, 
O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. ii. 617. 2. ornatus, O. Kuntze, lc. 618. 
Upper Guinea, Lagos: various localities, . Willen, 20! 113! 135! 176! 
ot Nigeria: Oloke Meji, Foster, 288! Cameroons: Yakuba, Ledermann, 
North Central, Shari district, Chevalier, 5588! 
Nile Land. Eritrea: various localities, Beccari, 128! Hildebrandt, 388! 
Schweinfurth, 221, 427, Schweinfurth & Riva, 2219! Abyssinia: various localities, 
Schimper, 115! 1414! 1647! Rohlfs & Stecker ! Steudner,514! Petit! Galabat, 
Schweinfurth, 761! Niamniam: Kalenjo, Schweinfurth, 2836! Uganda: Unyoro, 
Bagshawe, 1527! everywhere, Dawe, 811! British East Africa: various localities, 
Johnston! Hildebrandt, 2304! Késsner, 396! Scott-Elliot, 7326 ! 
Lower Guinea. Angola: various localities, Welwitsch, 437! 438! 439! 
South Central. Belgian Congo: Monbuttu, Schweinfurth, 3629! various 
localities, Mildbraed, 2307! Dewevre, Descamps, Debeerst, 13D, Thonner, 215. 
Mozamb. Distr. Zanzibar, Stuhlmann, 709! German East Africa: various 
localities, Holst, 555 ! 2227! 3553! Fischer, 530! Mildbraed,337! Merker,131! 
588! 596! Tolkens, 46! Warnecke, 419! Liebusch ! Stuhlmann, 1611 ! 6867 ! 6981! 
6988! 7061! 7071! Engler, 363! Jaeger, 369! Meller! Kirk! Portuguese East 
Africa: islands and shore of Lake Nyasa, Archdeacon Johnson, 19! 42! Davira, 
Johnson, 77! fout of Moramballa, Kirk! Shiramba, Kirk! Kurumadzi River, 
Swynnerton, 796! Chibabava, Lower Buzi River, Seynnerton, 799! British 
Central Africa: Nyasaland; various localities, Whyte! Buchanan, 22! 1164! 
MeClounie, 159! 
Miiller distinguished four varieties chiefly on the character of the indumentum 
and the few or numerous glands on the female bracts. After examining a large 
series of specimens collected since Miiller’s work, it is evident that these characters 
are of little value and that the varieties cannot be maintained, 
13. A. paucifolia, Baker d: Hutchinson in Kew Bulletin, 1911, 230. 
Stems apparently arising from a rhizome, slender, up to 7 in. long, 
much compressed or grooved, long-setose and pubescent when young, 
at length glabrous, ' Leaves lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, subacute at 
the apex, rounded at the base, 1-2} in. long, 2-5 lin. broad, rather 
shallowly repand-dentate, thinly chartaceous, glabrous on both surfaces 
except the midrib and lateral nerves which are setose; lateral nerves 
about 10 on each side, arcuate and looped, distinct but not prominent 
