892 CXXII, EUPHORBIACEH (HUTCHINSON). | Acalypha. 
below ; veins lax; petiole 4-6 lin. long, sometimes setose or crisped 
puberulous; stipules linear-subulate, 2-3 lin. long, nearly glabrous. 
Flowers monecious. Male inflorescence solitary, axillary, pedunculate, 
1}-3 in. long ; axis sulcate, crisped-pubescent. Buds glabrous. Female 
spike terminal, 1-1} in. long. Bracts small, broadly ovate, caudate- 
acuminate, about 10-toothed, teeth rather densely stipitate-glandular. 
Sepals 3, lanceolate, ciliate. Ovary small, sparingly pubescent, not 
glandular; styles stout, 2-24 lin. long, laciniate, otherwise glabrous. 
Fruits and seeds not seen. 
Mozamb. Distr. Portuguese East Africa: near Lake Nyasa, Johnson, 457! 
14. A, angustissima, Paz in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 99. Stems short, 
about 6 in. long, arising from a woody rhizome, compressed or deeply 
grooved, glabrous, or hairy only towards the base. Leaves sessile, 
Jinear, acute, 1-21 in. long, 1-1} lin. broad, entire, coriaceous, glabrous ; 
stipules linear-subulate, 14-2 lin. long, sparingly pilose. Flowers 
moneecious, the male and female on separate inflorescences. Male 
inflorescence axillary, solitary, pedunculate, 1-14 in. long; axis angular 
or grooved, glabrous; bracts linear, nearly 1 lin. long, pilose in the 
upper part. Male buds very small, nearly glabrous. Female spikes 
terminal, solitary, sessile, 3-1 in. long. Bracts subcupular, coriaceous, 
2-5 lin. long, with about 20 lobes, glabrous on both sides, lobes subulate, 
sparingly setulose towards the tips. Sepals 3, lanceolate, ciliate towards 
the apex. Ovary trilobed, glabrous; styles 3, suberect, about 23 lin. 
long, very shortly laciniate. Seeds ellipsoid, 14 lin. long, smooth. 
South Central. Belgian Congo: between Kimbundo and the Coango River, 
Pogge, 113! 
15. A. welwitschiana, Mill. Arg. in Journ. Bot. 1864, 334. A 
shrub 3-5 ft. high, sparingly branched in the upper part; branches @ 
little over 1 lin. in diam. about 6 in. from the apex, slightly angular, 
rather densely crisped-pubescent, with a few longer straight hous 
intermixed. Leaves ovate-elliptic, rounded or sttbacute at the Bi 
rounded or slightly cuneate at the base, 14-4} in. long, 1-2} in. broad, 
rather coarsely crenate, subentire towards the base, membranous, 
setulose-pubescent on both surfaces, 3—5-nerved at the base, remaining 
lateral nerves 4-5 on each side, slender, slightly raised on both — Ss 
petiole 3-2 in. long, rather slender, densely crisped-pubescent ; stip rare 
subulate, 13-2 lin. long, sparingly setulose. Flowers moncecious. gt 
spikes solitary or in pairs in each leaf-axil, 14-33 in. long, poecaie 
very shortly pedunculate ; axis tomentose. Buds densely pegren : 
Female spike solitary, terminal, scarcely } in, long, about } in. In sae 
Bracts rather small, several toothed, without glands, rather papa: 
pilose, Sepals 3, ovate-lanceolate, sparingly pilose on the re r, 
Ovary small, slightly trilobed, glabrous; styles long and _slen ak 
2 lin. long, laciniate and sparingly pubescent. Fruits and me rs 
known.—Miill. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 834; Hiern in Cat. FS ’ 
oe Welw. i. 977. Ricinocarpus welwitschianus, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gem- 
1. ii. 618. 
