ADDENDA. 1057 
20 subulate shortly pubescent teeth about 4 lin. long. Sepals 3, lan- 
ceolate. Ovary glabrous; style short, laciniate. Capsules very small, 
smooth. Seeds smooth, about 4 lin. long. 
Mozamb. Distr. German Kast Africa: Kitanda, Busse, 2399! 
Allied to A, ciliata, Forsk., differing in the more slender inflorescences being 
entirely or nearly entirely unisexual, and by the smaller female bracts with shorter 
teeth. 
32. Acalypha glomerata, //utchinson. Add: 
Extends also to South-east Africa. 
1. Mareya brevipes, Pax. Add: Mildbr. Wiss. Deutsch. Zentr - 
Afr, Exped. ii. 459. 
1. Lepidoturus laxiflorus, Benth. Add: Mildbr. Wiss, Deutsch. 
Zentr.-Afr. Exped. ii. 455. 
2. Alchornea floribunda, Mill. Arg. Add: Mildbr. Wiss. 
Deutsch. Zentr.-Afr, Exped. ii. 455. A. hirtella, Mildbr. l.c.; not of 
Benth. 
3. Alchornea glabrata, Prain. Add: Mildbr. Wiss. Deutsch. 
Zentr.-Afr, Exped. ii. 455, 
6. Alchornea yambuyaensis, Ve Wild. Add: A. verrucosa, 
Mildbr. Wiss. Deutsch. Zentr.-Afr. Exped. ii. 455. 
In the description of A. yambuyaensis (p. 918, line 20) for “ stipules ”’ read 
“ stipels.”’ 
7. Alchornea Schlechteri, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xiii. 221. Shrub, 
dicecious, 10-12 ft. high ; twigs pubescent. Leaves petioled, thinly, mem- 
branous, oblong or obovate, acuminate, margin crenulate, base rounded, 
4 in. long, 2-2} in. wide, glabrous above, at first hirsute with long hairs on 
_ the nerves beneath, soon glabrous except for tufts in the angles of main- 
nerves and midrib, glands at the base on the lower side inconspicuous, 
with two filiform stipels at the apex of the petiole on the upper side ; 
petiole slender, puberulous, 3-1} in. long ; stipules filiform, deciduous. 
Spikes simple, lax; males all lateral, 3-4 in. long, perulate at the base 
like the leaf-buds, but without leaves below the flowers ; rhachis softly 
pubescent ; male buds globose, 1 lin. wide, glomerate ; females few- 
flowered, each flower solitary to its bract or reduced to a subsolitary 
flower terminating a leafy twig. Ovary usually 3-celled, closely softly 
adpressed-pubescent. Capsule normally 3-coccous, nearly glabrous, 
quite smooth, dark brown, } in. wide; styles 4-4 in. long. Seeds 
globose, slightiy 2-sulcate on the inner face, faintly verrucose on the 
back, 
Mozamb. Distr. Portuguese East Africa: Madanda forests, 400 ft., 
Swynnerton, 1537 ! 
Also extends to the south of the tropics. 
Most nearly allied to A. Englert, Pax, and 4. yambuyaensis, De Wild., but 
differs in being diccious and in having rather shorter styles. 
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