Acalypha. | CXXIJ. EUPHORBIACEZ (HUTCHINSON). 901 
lanceolate-subulate, 3 lin. long, rather sparingly ciliate. Flowers 
monecious. Male spikes shortly pedunculate, solitary in each leaf-axil 
together with a solitary sessile female flower; male peduncle nearly 
2 lin. long, pubescent ; flowering part about 1 lin. long. Male buds 
glabrous. Sepals 4. Bract of the female flower very small, almost 
saucer-shaped, subentire, sparingly setose on the margin. Sepals 3, 
lanceolate, ciliate. Ovary warted; styles short, laciniate. Seeds 
broadly ovoid, glaucous, sparingly warted, i4 lin. long.—Miill. Arg. in 
DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 864. Mercurialis alternifolia, Hochst. ex Baill. 
Etude Gén. Euphorb. 490, sub sect. B, not of Lam. Ricinocarpus 
alternifolius, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. ii. 617. 
Nile Land. Cordofan; in spongy muddy places on Arashkol Mountain, 
Kotschy, 156! Ethiopia, Kotschy, 26! 
31. A. ciliata, Vorsk. Fl. Lgypt.-Arab. 162. An erect sparingly 
branched annual about 23 ft. high; stem shortly pubescent with 
recurved hairs, sulcate. Leaves ovate-elliptic or rhomboid-ovate, 
caudate-acuminate, rounded or subcuneate at the base, 13-44 in. long, 
{-2 in. broad, crenate-serrate, membranous, very slightly scabrous on 
both surfaces, digitately 5-nerved at the base, remaining lateral nerves 
4-5 on each side, slightly raised on both surfaces; tertiary nerves 
subparallel, rather distant, very slender; petiole 1-34 in. long, suleate, 
usually slightly pubescent when young, at length glabrous; stipules 
filiform, about 1} lin. long, slightly pubescent. Inflorescence bisexual, 
axillary, solitary or geminate, 3-1 in. long, about 10 female flowers in 
the lower part, the upper part male and spicate; axis puberulous. 
Male buds slightly puberulous. Female bracts suborbicular, 2 lin. long, 
3 lin. broad (when spread out), about 20-laciniate-toothed, and as many 
ribs on the outside, the teeth shortly ciliate, otherwise glabrous. 
Sepals 3, ovate-lanceolate, very small, membranous, ciliate. Ovary 
trilobed, small, sparingly pubescent in the upper part ; styles 3, slender, 
laciniate. Seeds ovoid, very minutely pitted, } lin. long.—Vahl, Symb. 
1.77, t. 20; Willd. Sp. Pl. iv. 522; Benth. in Hook. Niger Flora, 504 ; 
Baill. Adansonia, i. 72; Mill. Arg. in Linnea, xxxiv. 44, and in DC. 
Prodr. xv. ii, 873 (incl. vars. genuina and trichophora, Miill. Arg.) ; 
Wight & Arn. in Ann. Nat. Hist. ii. (1839) 111, t. 5; Dalz. & Gibs. 
Bomb. Fl. 228; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. v. 417; Pax in Engl. Pfl. Ost- 
Afr. ©. 239; Pax in Baum, Kunene-Samb. Exped. 283 ; Watt, Dict. 
Econ. Prod. Ind. i. 62; Cooke, Fl. Bomb. ii. 611; N. E. Br. in Kew 
Bulletin, 1909, 141. A. fimbriata, Schum, & Thonn. Beskr. Guin. Pl. 
09; A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 245; Baill. Adansonia, i. 272. 
A. vahliana, Miill. Arg. in Linnea, xxxiv. 43, and in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 
873; Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc, xxix. 147, t. 96; Pax in Engl. Pf. 
Ost-Afr, CG. 239; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 978; De Wild. & 
Durand, Contr. Fl. Congo, i. 51, ii. 57, and Reliq. Dewevr. 211; De 
Wild. Miss. E. Laurent, 131, and Etudes Fl. Bas- et Moyen-Congo, 
1. 284. Ricinocarpus ciliatus and R. vahlianus, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 
Pl. ii, 617-8. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Schumacher § Thonning! Roger, 54! 
