908. CXXII, EUPHORBIACEX (HUTCHINSON). | Acalypha. 
long, persistent, minutely and sparingly puberulous when young, at 
length glabrous; petiole up to 3 in. long, very sparingly setulose or 
glabrous. Inflorescence bisexual, axillary, solitary, 1-14 in. long, two 
or three females towards the base, the upper part males and spicate; 
axis tomentellous. Male buds puberulous. Female bracts reniform, 
about 14 lin. long, and 3 lin. broad when spread out, margin dentate, 
very sparingly pubescent outside. Sepals 3, ovate, acute, broad at the 
_ base, $ lin. long, ciliate. Ovary densely covered with coarse bristle-tipped 
tubercles; styles 3, connate at the base, finely laciniate. Seeds not 
seen.—Pax in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 239. A. mildbreediana, var. glab- 
rescens, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xliii. 323. 
Nile Land: British East Africa: Uganda; Kavirondo, Scott-Elliot, 7093! 
Mozamb. Distr. Zanzibar: Kidoti, Hildebrandt, 1146! German East 
Africa: Usambara; Gombelo, Holst, 2160! 
South Central. Belgian Congo: forest north-west of Fort Beni, Mildbraed, 
2254! 2273! 2337! 2372! 
Var. pubescens, Hutchinson. Young branchlets velvety-pubescent; leaves softly 
pilose on the lower surface.—A. mildbrediana, var. pubescens, Pax, l.c. 324. 
South Central. Belgian Congo: forest north-west of Fort Beni, Mildbraed, 
2253! 2335! 
41. A. Volkensii, Pax in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 239. A shrub 
up to 5 ft. high; branches finely sulcate, often long pilose or pubescent. 
Leaves ovate, shortly and more or less gradually and subacutely acumi- 
nate, cordate at the base, 14-3 in. long, ?-1} in. broad, crenate-serrate, 
membranous, pubescent especially on the nerves and veins below, 
5-nerved from the base, remaining lateral nerves 6-7 on each side, 
branched near the margin, prominent on both surfaces; tertiary nerves 
rather lax, subparallel, prominent below; petiole 1-1? in. long ; stipules 
linear-filiform, sparingly pilose, 2 lin. long. Inflorescence axillary, 
bisexual ; female bract solitary, sessile in the leaf-axil at the base of the 
male raceme, the latter 2-34 in. long, very slender; axis pubescent. 
Male buds glabrous. Female bracts foliaceous, very broadly ovate, more 
or less cordate at the base, doubly serrate, nearly glabrous, about } in. 
long. Sepals 3, ovate, ciliate. Ovary hirsute, especially in the upper 
half ; styles 3, slender, deeply laciniate and very sparingly pilose.—A. 
psilostachyoides, Pax in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, vi. 183, for the most part. 
Wile Land. Abyssinia, Roth! Somaliland: Galla Highlands, Ellenbeck, 
1262! Ualema, Riva, 1529! and without precise locality, Riva, 1386 ! Uganda: 
Kavironda, Whyte! British East Africa: N’di, Taita Hills, Hildebrandt, 2518! 
Mount Boura, Sacleux, 1315! Sani, Kassner, 765! Mtoni River, Kassner, 624! 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Usambara, Buchwald, 532! sik 
610! 628! Mbalu, Engler, 1481! Sakare, Engler, 959! Amani, Engler, Eb 
Kranzlin, 2121! Lake Eugili, UAlig, 724! Kilimanjaro, Volkens, 419! Johns sf 
109! Moschi, Merker, 597! Kwai, Albers, 281! Lutindi, Holst, 3382! Luibuseh - 
42. A. bipartita, Mill. Arg. in Flora, 1864, 538. A climbing ope ; 
branches subquadrangular, tomentellous when young, puberulous pce 
older and clothed with light-brown bark; internodes 3-1} in. ep 
Leaves ovate, gradually and subacutely acuminate, slightly rounded 0 
