Acalypha. | CXXII. EUPHORBIACEH (HUTCHINSON), 903 
Uganda: Muka, Késsner, 929! Galunka, Kassner, 791! and without precise 
locality, Stuhlmann, 1251! 1258! 
Mozamb. Distr. Zanzibar, Hildebrandt, 1038 partly! Schlechter ! 
Stuhlmann, 421! 423! German East Africa: Usaramo, Stuhlmann, 6599 ! 7005! 
8674! Mrogoro, Stuhlmann, 8285! Marangu, Volkens, 2316! Dar-es-Salaam, 
Stuhlmann, 7007! 7410! 7415! 7824! 7562! Tanga, Holst, 2022! Volkens, 166! 
Amboni, Holst, 2746! Portuguese East Africa: Mozambique, Kuntze / 
33. A. crenata, Hochst. ex A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 246. An 
annual up to 14 ft. high; stem erect, simple or rarely sparingly branched 
from the base, rather thick and fleshy, channelled or more or less 
compressed, rather minutely crisped-pubescent. Leaves ovate or 
elliptic-ovate, obtuse or subacute, more or less rounded or obtuse at 
the base, never cuneate, 3-2 in. long, 4-1} in. broad, crenate, mem- 
branous, glabrous on both surfaces or slightly pubescent on the midrib 
and lateral nerves below, 5-nerved from the base, remaining lateral 
nerves 3-4 on each side, prominent below; tertiary nerves subparallel, 
lax, distinct on the lower surface; petiole as long as or usually longer 
than the leaves, suleate, pubescent; stipules very small, subulate, 
pubescent. Inflorescence bisexual, several female flowers crowded in 
the lower part, the males very few and above the females, the axis of 
each inflorescence terminated by 1—5 globose densely muricate abortive 
female flowers. Female bracts suborbicular, about 4 lin. in diam. when 
spread out, with several triangular teeth, conspicuously ciliate, otherwise 
quite glabrous, nerves as many as the teeth, not conspicuous. Sepals 3, 
oblong-ovate, ciliate. Ovary pilose with tubercle-based hairs ; styles 3, 
slender, laciniate. Seeds ovoid, ? lin. long, minutely and closely pitted. 
—Miill. Arg. in Linnea, xxxiv. 42, and in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 871 (excl. 
var. glandulosa); Pax in Engl. Pf. Ost-Afr. C. 239; Schweinf. Beitr. 
Fl. Aethiop. 34, 4. abortiva, Hochst. ex Baill. Etude Gén. Euphorb. 
443, A, vahliana, Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 147, partly, not of 
Miill. Arg. Ricinocarpus crenatus, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. ii, 617. 
Upper Guinea. Nigeria: confluence of the Niger and Benue Rivers, Barter ! 
Stirling Hill, Ansell! Cameroons: Garua, Ledermann, 4953! 
. Nile Land. Abyssinia: Hamedo, Schimper, 192! Gageros, Schimper, 137! 
in fields near Gatta, Schimper, 1200! and without precise locality, Schimper, 491! 
Galabat: Matamma, Schweinfurth, 858! Kordofan, Kotschy, 24! 91a! Pfund, 
190! 483! Somaliland: Juba Province, Ellenbeck, 2314! Uganda: Unyoro, 
Speke § Grant, 5451! Busoga, Brown, 276! 
_ 24. A, indica, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. i. 1003. An annual up to 3 ft. 
high; stem simple or sparingly branched, herbaceous, sometimes woody 
at the base, shortly crisped-pubescent, suleate or angular. Leaves 
thomboid-ovate, ovate-oblong or ovate-lanceolate, acute or subacute, 
cuneate or cuneate-truncate at the base, 3-24 in. long, 4-1} in. broad, 
serrate, membranous, glabrous on both surfaces, except on the midrib 
and lateral nerves, digitately 5-nerved at the base, remaining lateral 
nerves about 4 on each side, raised and slightly pubescent on both 
Surfaces ; tertiary nerves very distant and subparallel, somewhat 
indistinct ; petiole as long as or usually longer than the leaf-blade 
