900 CXXII. EUPHORBIACER (HUTCHINSON). [ Acalypha. 
broad, coarsely serrate, membranous, setose on both surfaces, digitately 
5-7-nerved at the base, remaining lateral nerves 4-5 on each side, pro- 
minent on both surfaces ; transverse nerves subparallel, slender ; petiole 
1-2 in. long, more or less pilose or hirsute ; stipules subulate-filiform, 
1$-2 lin. long, rather densely pilose. Inflorescence bisexual, axillary, 
solitary, 1-3 in. long, about 3-4 female flowers towards the base, the 
remaining portion male, slender. Male buds very minutely pubescent. 
Female bracts deeply digitately 5-lobed (rarely 7-lobed), including the 
lobes about 3 lin. long and 5 lin. broad, lobes linear-lanceolate, acute, 
submembranous, very sparingly ciliolate, setulose at the apex, other- 
wise nearly glabrous. Sepals 3, ovate, about } lin. long, ciliate. Ovary 
densely hirsute; styles 3, slender, 3 lin. long, laciniate, rhachis nearly 
glabrous. Seeds subovoid, minutely mucronate, faintly pitted, 1 lin. 
long.— Miill. Arg.in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 865; Paxin Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. 
Trop. Afr. 283, and in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 239; Oliv. in Trans. Linn. 
Soc. xxix. 147; Rendle in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxxviii. 278. A. John- 
stoni, Pax in Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 283, and in Engl. Pf. 
Ost-Afr. C. 239. Ricinocarpus psilostachyus, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 
Pl. ii. 618. 
Wile Land. Abyssinia: between Enjedcap and Shoata, Schimper, 560! Gerra- 
Abuna, Schimper, 1548! Uganda: Ruwenzori, 7000 ft., Wollaston ! Scott-Elliot, 
7649! British East Africa: Lanjora, Johnston ! 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Karagwe, Speke & Grant ! Kili- 
manjaro; Marangu, Volkens, 699! 762! 765! Johnston! Kinga (Livingstone) 
Range; Mount Kirunde, Goetze, 904! Lager, Uhlig, 456! Kissenge, Mildbraed, 
1451! Kondeland ; Lungwe, Stolz, 764! British Central Africa: Nyasaland 
near Mwata Manga Stream, 4000 ft., Kirk! Mount Chiradzulu, Whyte ! Zomba, 
4000-6000 ft., Whyte! Purves, 1388! Mount Malosa, Whyte / Shire Highlands, 
Scott-Elliot, 8503! Adamson, 34! Buchanan, 746! 974! 
South Central. Belgian Congo: Elisabethville, Rogers, 10053! Bets 
Senza, Kassner, 2917! 
Var. glandulosa, Hutchinson. Bracts of the female flowers furnished with 
numerous stipitate glands. 
Nile Land. Uganda: Ruwenzori; Kivata, Scott-Hiliot, 7649! t 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Usambara; Kwai, pened 
Kafuro, Stuhlmann, 1719! north of Lake Nyasa, Thomson! Britis Whyte! 
Africa: Nyasaland; Nyika Mountains, Whyte! Songue and Karonga, Maine? 
between Kondowe and Karonga, Whyte! Fort Hill, Whyte! Milan}, 
Masuku Plateau, Whyte ! 
30. A. hochstetteriana, Mill. Arg. in Linnea, xxxiv. 39. a 
annual herb up to 2 ft. high, sparingly branched from t he ile 
and branches shallowly suleate, sparingly puberulous, with a ae tly 
hairs sprinkled here and there, Leaves lanceolate or elliptic, le 
subacutely acuminate, somewhat narrowed to the base, $-3 10. = Mi 
1} in. broad, crenulate, membranous, sparingly setose on Se ee 
otherwise glabrescent on both surfaces, rather closely seine it 3 on 
digitately 3-5-nerved at the base, remaining lateral nerves abou 
‘ - stipules 
each side; petiole 4-1 in. long, very sparingly pubescent; wer 
