904 OXXII, EUPHORBIACEZ (HUTCHINSON). | Acalypha. 
#-3 in. long, rather sparingly crisped-pubescent ; stipules subulate or 
subulate-filiform, pilose, 1 lin. long. Inflorescence axillary, bisexual, 
solitary or geminate, 3-24 in. long, with 1-7 rather distantly arranged 
females in the lower part, the males very few and terminal, remote 
from the female; axis slightly pubescent and terminated by an obovoid 
pubescent abortive female flower. Female bracts 1—2-flowered, sub- 
orbicular, 13-3 lin. long, 24—4 lin. broad (when spread out), 10-12-trian- 
gular-dentate, sparingly setulose-pubescent on the nerves outside and 
on the teeth, otherwise glabrous. Sepals 3, ovate-triangular, sparingly 
ciliate. Ovary deeply trilobed, pilose with tubercle-based hairs ; styles 
short, laciniate. Seeds ovoid, 4-3 lin. long, very closely and minutely 
pitted —Willd. Sp. Pl. iv. 523; Bl. Bijdr. 628; Roxb. FI]. Ind. iii. 675 ; 
Wight, Icon. t. 877; Miill. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 868; Hook. f. 
Fl. Brit. Ind. v. 416; Penzig in Atti Congr. Bot. Genova, 1892, 359; 
Pax in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 239, and in Baum, Kunene-Samb. Exped. 
283; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 978; Watt, Dict. Econ. Prod. 
Ind. i. 62; Cooke, Fl. Bomb. ii. 610; Durand & De Wild. Mat. 
Fl. Congo, ii. 61; De Wild. & Durand, Reliq. Dewevr. 210; N. E. 
Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1909, 141; Th. & Hél. Durand, Syll. Fl. Congol. 
492. A. spicata, Forsk. FI. Aigypt.-Arab. 161. A. somalium, Mill. Arg. 
in Abhandl. naturw. Ver. Bremen, vii. 27. A. somalensis, Pax in Engl. 
Jahrb. xix. 100, Ricinocarpus indicus, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. ii. 618. 
Nile Land. Eritrea: Bogos, Steudner, 532! Dalac and Kilet, Ehrenberg ! 
Somaliland: Maid, Hildebrandt, 1455! 1518! between Dagage and Gobeli, Ellen- 
beck, 1011! between Maju and Aroris, Ellenbeck, 10744! Guelidi, Revoil! and 
without precise locality, Drake-Brockman, 393! 394! Miss E. Cole ! Sudan, 
Broun, 1740! British East Africa: Kibwezi River, Kassner, 685! 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Loanda; slopes of Praia de Bispo, Welwitsch, 
417! Bumbo; at the base of Serra da Xella, in neglected fields after cultivation, 
Welwitsch, 427! between Umpupe and Palmfontein, Baum, 26! Amboland: 
Oshundo, Schinz, 731! 
South Central. Belgian Congo: Kasai; Lusambo, Laurent. 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: between the Njaraso and Matron 
Lakes, Merker, 374! Usambara ; Kwai, Hick, 151! Mashena, Holst, 8785! Ngami- 
land: Kwebe Hills, Mrs. Lugard, 184! 
Occurs also, mostly as a weed, in Madagascar, Arabia, India, Ceylon, and the 
Philippines. 
Var, bailloniana, Hutchinson. Female bracts large and pubescent between the 
nerves, }in. long and over 3 in. broad when spread out.—A. bailloniana, Miill. Arg. 
in Linnea, xxxiv. 44, and in DC. Prodr. xv, ii. 869; Pax in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 239. 
Mozamb, Distr. Zanzibar, Hildebrandt, 1195! Last! Stuhlmann, 561! 
Schmidt, 40! Boivin. German East Africa: Pangani, Stuhlmann, 346! 
35. A. segetalis, Mill. Arg. in Journ. Bot. 1864, 336. A small 
Spreading annual, 6-12 in. high, branched from the base; stem an 
branches more or less deeply channelled. Leaves ovate, obtuse mE 
subacute, more or less rounded at the base, $-14 in. long, 3-1 10. ae : 
crenate, membranous, shortly ciliate, very sparingly setulose on the 
midrib and lateral nerves, 5-nerved at the base, 3 of the nerves “er 
erect, remaining ones about 3 on each side, slightly raised on bot 
