894 CXXII. EUPHORBIACE (HUTCHINSON). | Acalypha. 
laciniate, segments filiform. Seeds ellipsoid, smooth, 1 lin. long, 
3 lin. in diam.—Miill. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 834. Ricinocarpus 
mannianus, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. ii. 618. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Cameroon Mountain, at 3000 ft., Mann, 1270! 
Yaunde, Zenker, 546! Buea, Preuss, 614! 
18. A. nyasica, Hutchinson. Stems ascending or spreading, 
woody towards the base, shortly pubescent; branches mostly slender, 
pubescent. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, rounded at the base, 
2+2 in. long, 3-3 in. broad, somewhat closely crenate-serrate, rigidly 
membranous, adpressed-pubescent on both surfaces, becoming nearly 
glabrous above with age, 5-nerved at the base, remaining lateral nerves 
6-7 on each side, raised on both surfaces; petiole about } in. long, 
pubescent ; stipules subulate, about 14 lin. long, nearly glabrous. 
Flowers moneecious. Male spikes axillary, solitary ; peduncle up to 
14 in. long, slender, sparingly pubescent. Buds glabrous. Female 
spikes terminal, solitary, subsessile, 1-24 in. long, about 4 in. in diam. 
Female bracts subreniform in outline when spread out, 34 lin. long, 
4 jin. broad including the teeth, deeply 16-20-toothed, membranous, 
nearly glabrous except on the teeth; teeth subulate, 1 lin. long, the 
middle one much longer, pilose with whitish hairs, not glandular. 
Sepals 3, ovate, small, very sparingly ciliate. Ovary deeply trilobed, 
thinly pilose at the top, not glandular; styles filiform, undivided, 
13-24 lin. long, free to the base, glabrous. Capsule deeply trilobed, 
slightly pubescent at the top. Seeds ellipsoid, about 1 lin. long, smooth, 
with a large membranous closely adpressed caruncle. 
Mozamb. Distr. Portuguese East Africa: Likoma Islands, in Lake Nyasa, | 
Johnson! British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Nymkowa, 6500 ft., Mc Clounie, 
25! near Nsessi River, Scott ! 
_ 19. A. polymorpha, Miill. Arg. in Journ. Bot. 1864, 335, partly. 
Stems short, about 6 in. long, arising from a woody rhizome, pubescent. 
Leaves subsessile, lanceolate-elliptic, obtuse, very slightly narrowed to 
the base, 14-2 in. long, ? in. broad, serrate, rigidly coriaceous, setulose- 
pubescent, especially on the midrib and lateral nerves on both surfaces ; 
lateral nerves 7-9 on each side, ascending, prominent on both surfaces ; 
tertiary nerves rather faint, parallel; stipules linear, 3-3} lin. Jong, 
pubescent. Flowers very probably monecious, the male not cee 
Female spikes shortly pedunculate, 3—1 in. long. Bracts sae < 
about the middle, pubescent or nearly glabrous outside, lobes subula . 
not glandular. Sepals oblong-lanceolate, ciliate. Ovary pubes 
not glandular; styles very shortly laciniate. Seeds smooth walt 
shining.—A. polymorpha, vars. elliptica, sericea, and oblongifolia, : 
Arg. le., and in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 835; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. We Wh 
i. 977; De Wild. et Th. Durand in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2me sér. i. 44; 
De Wild. Etudes Fl. Bas- et Moyen-Congo, ii. 284. Ricinocarpis 
polymorphus, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. ii. 618. 
. re -yst. 
Lower Guinea. Lower Congo: Kisintu, Gillet; Yindu, Vandery 
