898 CXXII, EUPHORBIACEE (HUTCHINSON). [ Acalypha. 
bracts small, 1-flowered. Sepals 5, ovate-lanceolate, ciliate in the 
upper part. Ovary conspicuously echinate; styles 3, much laciniate, 
glabrous. Capsule echinate, about 2$ lin. in diam. Seeds rounded, 
smooth.—Claoxylon sp., De Wild. & Th. Durand, Relig. Dewevr. 209. 
South Central. Belgian Congo: Fort Beni, Mildbraed, 2334! 2341! 2455! 
forest of N’Kembo, Dewevre, 441! 
26. A. Engleri, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiv. 372. A shrub about 
6 ft. high ; branches softly hirsute. Leaves elliptic or slightly rhomboid- 
elliptic, acutely acuminate, more or less cuneate at the base, 3-5} in. 
long, 14-3} in. broad, dentate or subserrate, subentire towards the base, 
membranous, shortly pilose above, long-pilose with spreading hairs on 
the nerves beneath, 3-nerved at the base, remaining lateral nerves about 
6 on each side, looped near the margin, prominent below ; tertiary nerves 
parallel, about 2 lin, apart ; petiole 14-23 in. long, rather densely pilose ; 
stipules linear-subulate, pilose, 2 lin. long. Inflorescence bisexual, very 
slender, solitary, axillary towards the ends of the shoots, about 5 in. long, 
10-15 female flowers in the upper part, the remaining lower part male; 
axis pubescent. Male budssparingly and minutely puberulous. F emale 
bracts 5-partite, rather small, segments linear-lanceolate, pilose outside, 
not glandular. Sepals 3, linear-lanceolate, acute, ciliate. Ovary densely 
clothed with tubercular-based hairs; styles 3, stout, much laciniated. 
Capsule not seen. 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Tanga; between Muhesa and 
Lungusa, Engler, 357! 
27, A. dumetorum, JMiill. Arg. in Journ. Bot. 1864, 334, partly. 
An erect sparingly branched undershrub, 2-4 ft. high ; branches virgate, 
leafy towards the apex, puberulous or nearly glabrous ; young Sowers 
branchlets whitish-tomentose. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, cigars 
rounded at the base, 1-2} in. long, }-? in. broad, finely crenate, rigidly 
coriaceous, dull on both surfaces, rather densely setulose above, pubes- 
cent below especially on the nerves and cross-nerves ; lateral ners ay 
on each side, ascending and continued to the margin, not or only a lit rl 
branched, prominent below ; tertiary nerves parallel, rather close, sare 
below; petiole rather stout, 1 lin. long, whitish-tomentose ; a ia 
linear-subulate, subterete, 2-4 lin. long, sparingly pubescent. a os 
rescence axillary, solitary, the largest about 2 in. long, — ihe 
lower half consisting of small crowded shortly pedicelled ma : bed 
upper of densely arranged sessile female flowers. Male buds 6 — 
very sparingly and shortly pubescent. Bracts of the female ere 
obconic, nearly closed around the flower, about 2 lin, long, rather = ‘ 
and irregularly dentate or lobed with about 20 teeth or lobes, sagt 
distinct on the inside, tomentose outside. Sepals 4, broadly one = . 
acute, } lin. long, pilose in the upper half on the outside, glabrous per as 
Ovary rather deeply trilobed, shortly pubescent; styles 3, pee Arg. 
base, suberect, laciniate on the inner face. Seeds smooth.—M. Ri “ie 
in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 821; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. 1. 976, fee 
carpus dumetorum, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. ii. 617. 
