504 FLORA. NIGRITIANA. 
Quorra, at Patteh and Stirling, Vogel; common in East 
India. 
The African specimens have not the young shoots and cap- 
sules so hispid as the East Indian, but they otherwise do not 
differ. Adrien de Jussieu, Euph. Tent. p. 46, suggested the 
removal of this plant from Tragia, and its approximation to 
Acalypha, of which it has the styles, but not the stamens. It 
appears to me necessary to consider it as a distinct genus, 
allied on the one hand to Acalypha, and on the other, and 
perhaps more closely, to Mercurialis and Adenocline. 
An alternate-leaved, tricoccous species of Mercurialis, from 
Senegal, is referred to by A. de Jussieu, but not having seen 
the specimen, I cannot tell whether it belongs to that genus as 
now modified, or to Adenocline, of Turczaninow. 
l. Acalypha Indica, Linn.—On the Quorra, at the Confluence, 
Ansell; Nubia, Abyssinia, and all over East India. 
These specimens approach nearly that state of the plant to 
which Hochstetter has given the name of A. abortiva, on 
Kotschy's Nubian tickets. The male part of the spike is very 
short, and often bears one or more ebracteate female flowers, 
which are usually reduced to a single carpel, and produce small, 
globose, echinate, monospermous fruits. 
2. Acalypha ciliata, Forsk., Fl. Æg. Arab. p. 162.— Vahl, 
Symb. 1. p. 77. t. 20.— Wight im Ann. Nat. Hist. 2. t. 5.— 
A. fimbriata, Schum. et Thonn. Beskr. p. 409.— Hochst. m 
Kotsch. Pl. Nub. ezs.—On the Quorra, at Patteh, and on 
the Nun, Vogel; St. Thomas, Don; Nubia, Arabia, and 
East India. 
3. Acalypha Leonensis, Benth. ; fruticosa, foliis oblongis bre- 
viter et obtuse acuminatis subdentatis basi longe angustatis 
glabris v. subtus ad costas puberulis, spicis axillaribus gra- 
cilibus androgynis, bracteis parvis integris inferioribus mas- 
culis superioribus androgynis v. summis fcemineis.—Sierra 
Leone, Vogel, Don ; Senegambia, Heudelot. 
Ramuli novelli angulati, minute tomentelli, demum subteretes, 
glabrati. Folia in summitatibus conferta, a 5-6 poll. usque 
ad 9-10 poll. longa, 2-3 poll. lata, acumine lato ssepe emar- 
