Acalypha. | CXXII. EUPHORBIACEE (HUTCHINSON), 907 
$-1} in. long, pilose. Bract subtending each cluster of male flowers 
oblong-linear, 14 lin. long, ciliate. Male buds red, very sparingly 
pubescent at the apex. Female bract almost hidden within the stipule, 
irregularly lobed to about the middle, sparingly pilose outside, glabrous 
within; lobes subulate, pilose, with no gland-tipped hairs. Sepals 3, 
oblong-lanceolate, ciliate. Ovary densely hirsute with whitish hairs, 
not glandular ; styles slender, 2 lin. long, shortly laciniate. Capsule 
and seeds not seen.—A. peduncularis, var., Pax in Baum, Kunene- 
Samb. Exped. 283, not of Meisn. 
Nesta Guinea. Angola: by the River Kubango, above Massaca, Baum, 
A! 
A very remarkable species, at once distinguished amongst the African species by 
na large trilobed stipules, which almost enclose the female flower at the base of each 
maie axis, 
39. A. subsessilis, Hutchinson in Kew Bulletin, 1911, 231. A 
shrub; branches subterete, bark slightly roughened, glabrous or nearly 
so; young branchlets puberulous. Leaves subsessile, oblanceolate or 
obovate, very obtusely acuminate, the acumen often emarginate, cuneate 
at the base, 14-34 in. long, 3-2 in. broad, chartaceous, obtusely serrate, 
glabrous on both surfaces; lateral nerves 6-7 on each side, looped and 
branched within the margin, very prominent below; tertiary nerves 
lax, subparallel, conspicuous below; stipules linear-lanceolate, strongly 
keeled on the back, scale-like, slightly pubescent or glabrous, 2 lin. long. 
Inflorescence bisexual, 1 in. long, one or two females at the base of each, 
the males numerous in the upper part; axis densely pubescent. Male 
buds slightly pubescent or almost glabrous. Female bracts very small 
and inconspicuous. Sepals 3, ciliate. Ovary setose-pubescent; styles 
laciniate. Capsule and seeds not seen.— Vallotus brevipes, Pax ex Engl. 
Pfl. Ost-Afr. A. 18, name only, not Acalypha brevipes, Miill. Arg. 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Usambara; Masheua, Holst, 3568 ! 
aad Volkens, 185! Bagamoyo, Sacleux, 1444! Mount Ngorou, Sacleux, 980, 
partly ! 
Var. mollis, Hutchinson, 1.c. Branches and under surface of the leaves softly 
and rather densely pubescent. 
Nile Land. British East Africa: Mazeras, Powell, 3, partly! 
Mozamb. Distr. Zanzibar, Kirk! German East Africa: Bagamoyo, 
Sacleux, 1445 ! Mandera, Sacleux, 980, partly ! 
, 40. A. neptunica, Mill. Arg. in Abhandl. Naturw. Ver. Bremen, 
vu. 26. A shrub about 34 ft. high; branches woody, subterete, clothed 
With reddish-brown bark, puberulous when young, at length glabrous. 
ves oblanceolate-elliptic, obovate or subrhomboid, shortly caudate- 
acuminate, more or less narrowed to the base, 2-6 in. long, 1-34 in. broad, 
obtusely serrate, submembranous or almost chartaceous, rather closely 
pellucid-dotted, slightly scabrous above, glabrous below except for a 
few very short hairs on the midrib and lateral nerves; lateral nerves 
2-6 on each side, looped near the margin, prominent on both surfaces 
€specially below ; transverse nerves rather faint, distant, often branched ; 
Stipules triangular-lanceolate, acute, brown and subscarious, 14-24 lin. 
