Acalypha. | CXXII, EUPHORBIACEZ (HUTCHINSON). 897 
except on the nerves when quite young, rather densely glandular below 
when young, at length sparingly so; lateral nerves 5-7 on each side, 
looped and branched near the margin, very slightly raised on both sur- 
faces; veins distinct but scarcely raised below; petiole 3-1} in. long, 
subterete, glabrous; stipules deciduous, subulate-lanceolate, 14 lin. 
long, glabrous. Inflorescence bisexual, pedunculate, axillary, consist- 
ing of one or two large foliaceous bracts towards the base, each con- 
taining two sessile female flowers, male portion terminal, subspicate, 
hardly 4 in. long. Male buds pubescent. Female bracts broadly ovate, 
cordate at the base, about 1 in. long and broad when spread out, with 
several nerves radiating from the midrib, crenate-serrate, glabrous on 
both sides except for a few scattered golden glands on the outside. 
Calyx cupular, tridentate, membranous, slightly ciliate. Ovary slightly 
trilobed, pubescent and rather densely clothed with sessile yellow glands ; 
styles connate at the base, laciniate, about 1} lin. long. Fruits not 
seen.— Miill. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 866; Pax in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. 
C. 239; S. Moore in Journ. Linn. Soc. xl. 200. Calyptrospatha pubi- 
flora, Klotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot, 97, t. 18. 
Mozamb. Distr. Portuguese East Africa: Inhambane, Peters! and without 
precise locality, Kirk ! Gazaland: Lower Buzi River, at Boka, Swynnerton, 736 ! 737 ! 
Occurs also (according to Baillon) in Madagascar. 
24. A. boiviniana, Baill. Adansonia, i. 272. Branchlets villous- 
pubescent. Leaves crowded, oblong-lanceolate, narrowly acuminate, 
cuneate at the base, 14-24 in. long, 3-3 in. broad, serrate, puberulous 
above, pubescent beneath ; petiole in. long, pubescent ; stipules linear, 
acute. Inflorescences crowded, slender, bisexual, 4 in. long, 5-12 
females in the upper part, the males glomerate in the lower portion. 
Male buds puberulous. Female bracts small, scarcely longer than the 
ovary, 1-3-flowered, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, entire, pubescent. 
Sepals lanceolate, acuminate. Ovary densely hirsute; styles very 
short, densely pectinate-laciniate——Pax in Engl. Pf. Ost-Afr. OC. 239. 
Ricinocarpus boivinianus, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. ii. 617. 
Mozamb. Distr. Zanzibar, Boivin. 
25. A. acrogyna, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xliii. 323. A shrub up to 
7 ft. high; branches covered with grey bark, glabrescent; lateral 
flowering branchlets very short, puberulous. Leaves crowded, obovate 
or elliptic-lanceolate, acutely acuminate, attenuated to and obtuse at the 
base, 14-3 in. long, 1-1} in. broad, crenate-serrate, thinly chartaceous 
or membranous, glabrous except on the pubescent lateral nerves below ; 
lateral nerves 5-6 on each side, distinctly looped and branched well 
within the margin, prominent on both surfaces, with tufts of hairs in 
their axils below; tertiary nerves very distant, freely anastomosing ; 
petiole 4-4 in. long, crisped-pubescent ; stipules linear-subulate, keeled 
on the back, subcoriaceous, glabrous, 2 lin. long. Inflorescences bisexual, 
fasciculate at the ends of short lateral branches, 14-4 in. long, male 
flowers numerous in the lower, females 2-4 in the upper part; axis 
slender, crisped-pubescent. Male buds sparingly puberulous. Female 
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