Acalypha. | CXXII, EUPHORBIACE& (HUTCHINSON). 895 
Angola: Huilla; near Lopollo, Welwi/sch, 429! near Mumpulla, Welwitsch, 421! 
between Lopollo and Ferrao da Sola, Welwitsch, 428! 
20. A. crotonoides, Pax in Engl. Jahrb., xix. 97. Habit of 
A. polymorpha ; stems densely yellow-tomentose. Leaves subsessile, 
oblanceolate or oblong-oblanceolate, acute, about 1 in. long, nearly 
3 in. broad, sharply serrate, rigidly coriaceous, yellow-villous on both 
surfaces ; lateral nerves about 9 on each side, prominent on both sur- 
faces ; stipules linear-subulate, } in. long, rather densely pubescent. 
Flowers monecious, male and female on separate solitary inflorescences. 
Male inflorescence axillary, pedunculate, ? in. long; axis yellow- 
tomentose ; bracts subspathulate, ciliate. Buds pilose. Female spikes 
terminal, conic, 11} in. long, about 4 in. in diam. Bracts } in. long, 
rather irregularly 12-lobed to about the middle, glabrous inside, 
adpressed-pilose on the outside, lobes subulate, not glandular. Sepals 3, 
oblong, ciliate. Ovary deeply trilobed, densely pilose, not glandular ; 
styles 3, laciniate, yellow. Capsule pubescent. Seeds somewhat 
rounded, truncate at the base, about 14 lin. in diam., pale brown, 
smooth, 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Huilla, Antunes, 115! 886! 
South Central. Belgian Congo: Lunda; Kimbundo, Pogge, 114! 
21. A. fruticosa, Forsk. Fl. Hgypt.-Arab. 161. A shrub; branches. 
shortly crisped-pubescent when young, soon becoming quite glabrous 
and clothed with a. light brown bark. Leaves ovate, shortly acuminate 
to a more or less sharply mucronate apex, abruptly cuneate or more 
rarely somewhat rounded at the base, very variable in size, up to 4 in. 
long and 3 in. broad, rather coarsely crenate, membranous, clothed with 
Somewhat scattered conspicuous persistent golden-coloured glands on 
the lower surface, shortly pilose on both sides, at length glabrous or 
nearly so, digitately 3-5-nerved at the base, remaining lateral nerves 
3-5 on each side of the midrib, subopposite, the lower with several 
branches on their lower side ; tertiary nerves conspicuous in the larger 
and older leaves, parallel, 1-14 lin. apart ; petiole 4-2 in. long, pubescent ; 
Stipules linear-lanceolate, about 2 lin. long, sparingly pubescent. In- 
florescence bisexual, axillary, up to $ in. long, consisting of 2 or 3 
foliaceous unilateral bracts, each containing a solitary sessile female 
flower, and a very short terminal pedunculate male spike; bract sub- 
tending each male flower ovate, densely pubescent. Buds subquad- 
rangular, pubescent. Female bract about } in. long, dentate, teeth 
pilose, several-nerved, very shortly pubescent on the nerves outside, 
often with a few scattered glands, glabrous within. Sepals 3, ovate- 
lanceolate, 4 lin. long, pilose on both sides. Ovary slightly trilobed, 
with numerous golden glands in the depressions between the lobex, 
pilose ; styles 3, free, terete at the base, much branched above, branches 
simple, filiform. Capsule trilobed, pilose. Seeds ellipsoid, quite smooth. 
—Miill, Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 822 ; Kurz, For. FI. ii. 397 ; Hook. 
f. Fl. Brit. Ind. v. 415; Pax in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 239, and in Eng). 
Jahrb. xxviii, 419; Schweinf, in Bull. Herb. Boiss. vii. App. ii. 30%; 
