Acalypha. | CXXII, EUPHORBIACEZ (HUTCHINSON), 899 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Huilla, Dekindt, 693! 3090! Mounyino, Dekindt, 
272! in dense craggy thickets between Nene and Lopollo, and near Mumpulla, 
Welwitsch, 432! outskirts of the forest at Monino, Welwitsch, 431! Humpata, 
Fritzsche, 122! 
28. A. brachystachya, Hornem. Hort. Hafn. ii. 909. A flaccid 
herbaceous annual, 6-12 in. high; stem sulcate, pilose with long and 
short hairs when young, atlength puberulous. Leaves ovate, very shortly 
and subacutely acuminate, cordate or rounded at the base, 3-2 in. long, 
3-1} in. broad, shallowly crenate-serrate or serrate, membranous, spar- 
ingly pilose on both surfaces, 5-7-nerved at the base, remaining lateral 
nerves about 3 on each side, raised on both surfaces, more prominent 
below ; transverse nerves very inconspicuous ; petiole }—-1? in. long, 
rather slender, pubescent; stipules subulate-lanceolate, } lin. long, 
sparingly ciliate. Inflorescence bisexual, very short, axillary, solitary 
or geminate, 6—9 female flowers in the lower part, with the male flowers 
in a terminal short dense cluster ; axis rather densely pubescent. Male 
buds puberulous. Female bracts tripartite; segments linear-oblong, 
subacute, 14 lin. long, pubescent on both sides, margins rather sparingly 
stipitate-glandular. Sepals 3, lanceolate, ciliate, + lin. long. Ovary 
setose ; styles slender, laciniate, otherwise nearly glabrous. Seeds 4 lin. 
long, ovoid, very minutely pitted —Willd. Enum. Pl. Hort. Berol. 992 ; 
Mill. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 870; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. v. 416; 
Trim. Fl. Ceyl. iv. 59; Watt, Dict. Econ. Prod. Ind. i. 61; Cooke, FI. 
Bomb. ii. 611; Pax in Engl. PA. Ost-Afr. C. 239; Hiern in Cat. Afr. 
Pl. Welw. i. 978; De Wild. & Durand in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2me sér. 
i. 47, and Relig. Dewevr. 210; De Wild. Miss. E. Laurent, 131; Schweinf. 
in Bull. Herb. Boiss. vii. App. ii. 309; Th. & Hél. Durand, Syllog. FI. 
Congol. 492. A. conferta, Roxb. Flor. Ind. iii. 677. A. elegantula, 
Hochst. ex A. Rich. Tent. Fi. Abyss. ii. 246. Ricinocarpus brachy- 
stachyus, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. ii. 617. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Batanga, Lobe village, Bates, 30! Jaunde, 
Zenker & Staudt, 512! Buea, Lehmbach, 190! Preuss, 1002! Mungo, Buchholtz ! 
Wile Land. Eritrea: Saati, Schweinfurth, 88. Abyssinia: Mezano valley, near 
Jeladjeranne, Schimper, 1708! Uganda: Ruwenzori, common amongst Bananas, 
Scott-Elliot, 7737! Kampala, Scott-Elliot, 7314! Entebbe, Brown, 326! 
Lower Guinea. Lower Congo: Mussumba, Pogge, 125! Kisantu, Gillett. 
Angola: Pungo Andongo; in moist places neglected after cultivation, Welwitsch, 
393! 
South Central. Belgian Congo: Fort Beni, on the Semlike River, Mild- 
braed, 2366! Equateur district; Boera, Dewevre. Bangala district; Nouvelle- 
Anvers, Hens. 
Mozamb. Distr. (German East Africa: Kilimanjaro, Volkens, 2312! 
Bukoba, Stukimann, 3858! British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Tanganyika 
Plateau, Whyte! 
Oceurs also in India, Ceylon, and Java. 
29. A. psilostachya, Hochst. ex A. Rich, Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 246. 
Suffruticose or herbaceous; stems hirsute or hirsute-tomentose when 
young. Leaves ovate or rhomboid-ovate, acutely caudate-acuminate, 
harrowly truncate, rounded or cordate at the base, 2-34 in. long, 1}-2 in. 
