Tap. 7682, 
ACALYPHA uarspipa. 
Native of New Guinea. 
Nat. Ord. EupHorspiace#.—Tribe Crotrone. 
Genus AcatypnHa, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 311.) 
AcatypHa (Euacalypha) hispida; frutex dioicus, 10-15-pedalis, foliis longe 
petiolatis late ovato-cordatis v. rhombeo-ovatis, acuminatis subacute v. 
obtuse crenato-serratis basi rotundatis vel late cuneatis utrinque glabris 
puberulisve supra laete viridibus subtus pallidis, petiolo lamina breviore 
pubescenti-tomentellis, spicis femineis longissimis pendulis fere a basi 
densissime floriferis, floribus in glomerulos bracteatos et hbracteolatos 
confertissimis, bracteis inconspicuis, bracteolis minutis subulatis lan- 
ceolatisve, sepalis 4 ovatis acutis hispidis, ovario minuto pilis albis 
stellatim hispido, stylo brevi, stigmatibus 3 longissimis sanguineis in 
lacinias valde elongatas capillares fissis. 
A. hispida, Burm. Fl. Ind. p. 203 (sphalm, 303), t. 61, fig. 1 (excl. cit. Rheede). 
Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. vol. ii. (1843), p. 232; Muell. Arg.in DO. 
Prodr. vol. xv. pars. II. p. 815. Schum. in Notizblatt K. Bot. Gart. et 
Mus. Berl. vol. ii. p. 127. Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. v. p. 417. 
A. densiflora, Bl. Bijd. p. 628. Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat, vol. i. pars II. p. 405. 
A, Sanderi, V.H. Br. in Gard. Chron. 1896, vol. ii. p. 392; 1898, vol, i. 
p. 248, fig. 98. André im Rev, Hortic. vol. lxx. (1898), p. 458, cum ic. 
Gartenfl. 1898, p. 276. 
A. rubra, Noronh. ex Hassk. in Hoev. et de Vr. Tijdschr. Nat. Ges. vol. xi. 
(1844), p. 216 nomen tantum. 
Caturus spiciflorus, Row. Fl. Ind. vol. iii. p. 760, A. Juss. Tent. Euphorb, 
pp. 45, 115, t. 14, fig. 45 (non Linn.). > 
Cauda felis, Rumph. Herb. Amb. vol. iv. t. 36. 
It is singular that so remarkable and ornamental a plant 
as that here figured, and one so long known in cultivation — 
In India and the Malay Islands, should have been only quite 
_ recently introduced into Europe. Rumphius, writing in 
_ 1690, described and figured it for his ‘‘ Herbarium Amboy- 
nense”’ (published in 1750), as rare in Amboyna, and 
known only in gardens and where planted in shrubberies. 
Roxburgh, upwards of sixty years ago, described it (under 
the wrong name of Caturus spiciflorus, Willd.) from speci- 
mens growing in the Garden of the Honourable East India 
Company, Calcutta. It is entered in works on Malayan 
botany as cultivated in Singapore and Java; and Bentham 
is the authority for its being found in the Fiji Islands, 
_ of which it has never been proved to be a native. Under 
| January Ist, 1899, 
