EURPHOBIACEAE. — ACALYPHA 523 



rotundata, apice subsensim acute acuminata acumine mucronato 0.5-1 cm. longo 

 medio 1-2 mm. lato, plerumque 3.5-8 cm. longa et 1.5-3 cm. lata (in fructu inter- 

 diim 10-13 cm. longa et usque ad 4 cm. lata), tenuiter chartacea, supra costa parce 

 puberula excepta glabra, infra solum in costa et nervis lateralibus breviter setuloso- 

 pubescentia; costa infra conspicua; nervi laterales utrinsecus 5-8, supra distinct!, 

 infra prominentes, intra marginem conjuncti, in axillis lanato-pubescentes; venae 

 plerumque conspicuae et laxae; petioli 0.4-1 cm. longi, hirsuti; stipulae mox dcci- 

 duae, lineari-subulatae, acutae, 4-5 mm. longae, setuloso-pubescentes. Inflores- 

 centiae ^ terminales, 3-4-ramosae, ramis pergracilibus 1.5-2 cm. longis: rhachis 

 parce pubesccns; bracteae stipulis similes, sed parum breviores; bractcolae mi- 

 nutae, subulato-lanccolatae, glabrae; flores J breviter pedicellati, pedicellis pa- 

 tulis demum vix 1 mm. longis glabris; sepala 4, late transverse oblonga, 0.35 mm. 

 longa, 0.75 mm. lata, glabra; stamina 4; discus carnosus, glaber. Flores ? non 

 visi. Infructescentiae 9 pergraciles, 3-ramosae, 6-8 cm. longae; rltacliis angularis, 

 parce puberula v. fere glabra; pedicelli fructiferi patuli v. leviter reflexi, 3-4 mm. 

 longi, parce puberuli; sepala triangularia, brevia, glabra; discus crassua, glaber. 

 Fructus juniores oblique ellipsoidei, tetragoni, glabri, stylis brevissimis bilobia 

 corouati. 



Western Szech'uan: Kiating, July 1903 (Veitch Exped. No. 4449; shrub 

 1 m. tall, g flowers); November 1903 (Veitch Exped. No. 4058; shrub 4 m. tall, 

 young fruits); Mt. Omei, June 1904 (Veitch Exped. No. 4480; bush 3 m. tall; 

 <J flowers). 



This species is related to A. japonicum Siebold & Zuccarini, but differs from 

 it chiefly in its oblong leaves more rounded at the base and hairy on the midrib 

 and lateral nerves below, and in its strictly tenninal inflorescence. 



CROTON L. 



Croton Tiglium Linnaeus, Spec. 1004 (1753). — Muller Arg. in De Candolle, 

 Prodr. XV. pt. 2, 600 (1866). — Hooker f., Fl. Brit Ind. V. 393 (1887). — Hems- 

 ley in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXVI. 435 (1894). — Leveille, FL Kouy-Tcheou, 160 

 (1914). 



Western China : Fu-chou, Yangtsze banks, cultivated, May 1903 (Veitch Ex- 

 Ped. No. 4447; tree 5 m. high). 



This small tree is commonly cultivated in Szech*uan in the vicinity of the Yang- 

 tsze River. Its leaves are mostly retained through the winter and become highly 

 colored before they fall in the spring. Colloquially it is known as the Pa-tou tree 

 and its seeds are used medicinally. E. H. W. 



ACALYPHA L. 



XXVI 



Western Hupeh: Ichang gorge, cliffs, April , , _ 



shrub about 1 m. high). 



Our specimen is an exact match of Henry's Nos. 1188 and 3824 mentioned in a 

 note by Hemsley as probably being the same as his A. acmophylla. 1 think he ia 

 fjght in this; in his type specimens the inflorescences are soHtarj' in the leaf axils, 

 put they are borne on fully grown lateral shoots, whilst in Henry's specimens and 

 ^ ours the inflorescence is borne on very young branches just emerging from the 



