Acalypha. | CXXII. EUPHORBIACEA! (HUTCHINSON). 905 
surfaces ; petiole 4-14 in. long, slender, crisped-puberulous ; stipules 
subulate, caducous. Inflorescences bisexual, usually solitary in each 
leaf-axil, very short, about } in. long; 2-4 distantly arranged females 
in the lower part, the males very few and terminal, remote from the 
female, with a terminal abortive female as in A. indica. Female bracts 
2-flowered, foliaceous, ovate, acuminate, subcordate at the base, 5-6 lin. 
long, about 8 lin. broad when spread out, crenate, about 10-nerved, 
sparingly setulose on the nerves and margin, sometimes with a few 
gland-tipped hairs intermixed. Sepals 3, ovate, } lin. long, sparingly 
ciliate. Ovary rather deeply trilobed, sparingly clothed with tubercle- 
based hairs ; styles 3, rather short, laciniate, otherwise glabrous. Seeds 
ovoid, # lin. long, minutely and closely pitted —Miill. Arg. in DC. 
Prodr. xv. ii. 877; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 979. A. sessilis, 
vars. brevibracteata and exserta, Mill. Arg. in Flora, 1864, 465, not of 
Poir. A. gemina, vars. brevibracteata and ewserta, Miill. Arg. in DC. 
Prodr. xv. ii. 866. A. sessilis, De Wild. & Durand in Bull. Herb. 
Boiss. 2me sér. i. 47; De Wild. Miss. E. Laurent, 131, and Etudes FI. 
Bas- et Moyen-Congo, ii. 284; not of Poir. Ricinocarpus segetalis, 
O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. ii. 618. 
Upper Guinea. Togo: Misahohe, Baumann, 227! Dahomey, Testu, 95! 
Lagos, Millen, 37! Rowland! Northern Nigeria: Nupe, Barter, 1490! 1495! 
Lokoja, Dalziel, 1631 Cameroons: Batanga, common in cassava fields and on the 
roadsides, Bates, 40! Yaunde, Zenker & Staudt, 511! Akwa, Dinklage, 150! 
Kribi, Ledermann, 499! Kinada, Ledermann, 4684! Garua, on the Benue, Leder- 
mann, 4859! Dume, Ledermann, 4272! 
Lower Guinea. French Congo: Brazzaville, Thollon, 420! Lower Congo: 
Burton! San Salvador, Biittner, 270! Angola: Golungo Alto; in fields and by 
the River Cuango, near Sange, Welwitsch, 389! 440! near Camilungo, Welwitsch, 
416! Ambaca 3; near Ambaca, Welwitsch, 416B! Malange district, Gossweiler, 998 ! 
Huilla ; Mounyino, Dekindt, 286! 287! and without precise locality, Antunes, 
2304! German South-West Africa: Tusfelsbach, Dinter, 115! Okahandja, 
Dinter, 451! Windhoek, Dinter, 328! 
, Mozamb. Distr. Ngamiland: Kwebe Hills, Mrs. Lugard, 137! Rhodesia: 
Victoria Falls, Rogers, 5386 ! 
Occurs also in Eastern South Africa. 
36. A. Stuhlmanni, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 99. Stems arising 
Tom a woody many-headed rhizome, slender, pubescent or nearly 
glabrous. Leaves subsessile, variable in shape and size, oblong or 
linear-oblong, obtuse or subacute, mostly rounded or very obtuse at the 
€, 1-4 in. long, 4-1 in. broad, crenate-serrate, rigidly subchartaceous, 
at first thinly pubescent on both surfaces, at length becoming glabrous 
or nearly so ; lateral nerves 3-5 on each side, ascending, prominent below ; 
Stipules subulate, about 14 lin. long. Flowers normally monecious. 
nflorescence axillary, bisexual or rarely subunisexual, up to 2 in. long, 
1 to few females at the base, the remainder consisting of a slender male 
spike, sometimes the short lateral shoots towards the apex of each stem 
entirely (?) female; male portion of each inflorescence very slender, 
Pedunculate; axis very shortly pubescent. Buds sparingly puberulous. 
emale bracts deeply laciniate, about 2 lin. long; segments about 10, 
