296 CXXII. EUPHORBJACEEH (HUTCHINSON). | Acalypha. 
Penzig in Atti Congr. Bot. Genova, 1892, 359. A. betulina, Retz. 
Obs. v. 30; Vahl, Symb. i. 77; Willd. Sp. Pl. iv. 522; A. Rich. Tent. 
Fl. Abyss. ii. 249; Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 33.  Ricinocarpus 
Sruticosus, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. ii. 618. 
Nile Land. Eritrea; various localities, Schweinfurth & Riva, 349, 350, 
6101! 1616; Hildebrandt, 686! Abyssinia: various localities, Schimper, 398! 
1026! 1588! Ehrenberg! Petit! Galla Country, Ellenbeck, 338! Somaliland: 
various localities, Ellenbeck, 338! 1050! 1099B! 2282; Robecchi-Brichetti, 581! 
649! Mrs. Lort-Phillips ! Revoil! Sudan: Bahr el Jebel, Broun, 506! Uganda: 
Unyoro; Kibero, Ragshawe, 901! British East Africa: various - localities 
Battiscombe, 256! Hildebrandt, 2701 ! 2574! Kvissner, 297! Scott-Elliot, 6113! 
Scheffler, 27! 
Mozamb. Distr. Zanzibar, Hildebrandt, 702! 1168! German East Africa: 
various localities, Volkens, 57! 181! Stuhlmann, 415! 680! 702! 8662! 8679! 
8689! Holst, 2058! Heinsen, 110! Goetze, 115! Braun, 1677! Engler, 331! 
Merker, 571! 
South Central. Belgian Congo: outlet of the Semlike River, at Lake 
Albert Edward, Mildbraed, 1936! 
Var. villosa, Pax MSS. Leaves more or less villous. 
Mozamb. Distr. Zanzibar, Lyne, 54! German East Africa: Usambara; 
Maschena, Holst, 3569! Dar-es-Salaam district; Usaramo, Stuhlmann, 8954. 
22. A. ceraceopunctata, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xlv. 238. A herb 
or undershrub 3-44 ft. high; branchlets subterete, slightly pubescent. 
Leaves ovate or rhomboid-ovate, shortly and gradually acuminate, 
cuneate at the base, 24-34 in. long, 1-2 in. broad, rather obtusely 
serrate, membranous, yellowish-green when dry, dotted with numerous 
yellow glands on the lower surface, otherwise glabrous except the crisped- 
puberulous midrib; lateral nerves 4-5 on each side, prominent below; 
tertiary nerves very slender, subparallel ; petiole $-14 in. long, sparingly 
crisped-pubescent ; stipules subulate, soon falling off. Inflorescence 
bisexual, axillary, very slender, 14-3 lin. long, several foliaceous * 
flowered female bracts towards the base, the upper half male and sub- 
spicate. Male buds sparingly puberulous. Female bracts deeaeree 
2-flowered, about } in. long when in fruit, $ in. broad, serrate, sparing'y 
gland-dotted outside, otherwise glabrous. Sepals 3, unequal, the largest 
sometimes bifid, very sparingly ciliolate at the apex, otherwise esi 
Ovary ovoid, glabrous; styles stout, much laciniated. Fruits hid By 
by the enlarged femmle bracts, deeply trilobed, about $ in. 1m anes 
dotted with yellow peltate glands. Seeds 1} lin. in diam., smooth. 
Upper Guinea. Northern Nigeria: Katagum district, Dalziel, 209! Yola, 
Dalziel, 151! Cameroons: Buba, Ledermann, 4079! Niokodi, Ledermann, pac 
near Ngesik, Ledermann, 4283 ! 
23. A. pubiflora, Baill. Adansonia, i. 268, A woody shrub _ 
high; branches twiggy, glabrous or very nearly so, somewhat angu 
when young. Leaves obliquely lanceolate, gradually acne a 
slightly mucronate, rounded or slightly cordate at the base, 13~ : ra 
long, 3-14 in. broad, crenate, membranous, glabrous on both surface 
