910 CXXII, EUPHORBIACEH (HUTCHINSON). | Acalypha. 
Lower Guinea. Lower Congo; Lukolela, Dewévre, 820. 
Known to me only from the description ; probably closely allied to 4. bipartita 
and A. Volkensit. 
58. MAREYA, Baill.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. 312. 
Flowers monecious or diccious, apetalous. Male: Calyx closed in 
bud, globose, splitting into 3-4 valvate segments. Stamens 10-20; 
filaments free, filiform, flexuous in bud, inserted on a convex glandular 
receptacle; anthers 2-celled; cells distinct, oblong, shortly stipitate, in 
bud pendulous, at length flexuous-divaricate, dehiscing from the apex. 
Rudimentary ovary 0. Female: Sepals 4-6, broad, imbricate. Disk 
flattened, lobed. Ovary pubescent, 3- (rarely 4-) celled; cells 1-ovuled ; 
styles distinct or shortly connate below, recurved, papillose-plumose. 
Capsule more or less 3-dymous, pubescent, usually breaking up into 
2-valved cocci; rarely fruit indehiscent. Seeds subglobose, smooth ; 
albumen fleshy; cotyledons broad, flat.—Trees or shrubs. Leaves 
alternate, petioled, usually rather large, entire or slightly toothed, 
penninerved. Racemes or spikes axillary or lateral or clustered to- 
wards the ends of the twigs, usually exceeding the leaves. Flowers 
glomerulate along the rhachis; glomerules sometimes with only male 
flowers, sometimes with 2 or more males accompanied by a solitary 
female, sometimes replaced by solitary female flowers. 
Five endemic species. 
Flowers distinctly pedicelled, monecious ; petiole } in. long 
or less; leaves thin; capsule breaking up into 2-valved 
cocci . ; : : : : : 2 , . 1. W. brevipes. 
Flowers sessile or subsessile ; petioles 4 in. long or longer. 
Moneecious; leaves rather firm; capsule breaking up 
into 2-valved cocci. 
Flowers green; spikes slender, flexnous; leaves nearly 
or quite glabrous beneath ; ; ‘ : . 2. M. micrantha. 
Flowers white; spikes stiff, rigid; leaves usually with 
spreading hairson the nerves beneath . - . 3. WL. spicata. 
Dicecious. 
Leaves thin, lateral nerves few; capsule breaking up 
into 2-valved cocci é : : ‘ : . 4. M. acuminata. 
Leaves rather firm, lateral nerves numerous; fruit 
indehiscent . : A ‘ ‘ : . . 5. MW. longifolia. 
1. M. brevipes, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 24. Shrub, mone- 
cious; twigs glabrous. Leaves very shortly petioled, membranous, 
obovate-lanceolate or narrow-obovate, shortly and acutely acuminate, 
narrow from beyond the middle to the narrow-truncate or occasionally 
acute base, shortly distantly toothed throughout, 6-15 in. long, 2-4 in. 
wide, rather dark green, glabrous on both surfaces; petiole glabrous, 
1-2 (rarely 3) lin. long; stipules lanceolate, puberulous, deciduous. 
Spikes numerous, slender, flexuous, usually about as long as the leaves, 
occasionally shorter; rhachis glabrous. Male flowers in few-flowered 
