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Acalypha,] 



EuniORBiACE.E (Prain). 



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Female flowers always aggregated in a large terminal 

 spike ; 



Female bracts under I in. long ; perenuiala : 



Stems erect ; female bracts densely stipitate- 



glandular but not setose (8) senensis. 



Stems prostrate or decumbent ; female bracts 



ciliate, very sparingly stii>itate-glandu]ar ... (0) petiolaris. 



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Female bracts ^ in. long or longer ; annual ... 



Leaves sessile or subsessile ; plants normally dioecious : 

 Stems procumbent : 

 Leaves eglandular : 



Leaves glabrous or nearly so 



Leaves more or less pubescent 



Leaves glandular : 



Leaves glabrous or nearly so 



Leaves rather densely strigose 



Stems erect : 



Leaves not glandular : 



Leaves with entire margins 



Leaves with serrate margins : 

 Leaves narrow-lanceolate... 



(10) Eckloni 



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(11) Zeyheri. 



(12) peduncularis 



(13) glandulifolia. 



.. (14) entumenica. 



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, (15) depressinervia. 



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Leaves ovate 



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.., (16) angustata. 

 ... (17) caperonioides. 



Leaves more or less glandular : 



Glands on upper leaves and outside 

 bracts sessile 



Glands on upper leaves and outside 

 bracts stipitate 



of female 



(IS) punctata. 



of female 



(19) Wilmsii 



1. A. sonderiana (MiilL Arg. in Linnsea, xxxiv. 9) ; a small tree, 

 much branched ; branches rigid, leafy branches often ending in stiff 

 pungent spines; bark glabrous, lenticelled; buds perulate; leaves 

 membranous, distinctly petioled, oblong-ovate or -elliptic, obtuse, 

 base rounded, margin bluntly rather wide-crenate, 1-2^ in. long, 

 f-1 in. wide, glabrous on both surfaces, clustered at the apices of 

 short lateral twigs along the branches ; twigs densely or loosely 

 clothed with subimbricating I'igid ovate-acute scales ; petiole :^-| in, 

 long, sparingly pubescent; stipules small; inflorescence 2-se.\uab 

 with a solitary terminal jointed female flower and w^ith rather 

 distant clusters of male flowers downwards ; spikes solitary, geminate 

 or ternate, mixed with the leaves at the tips of the scaly twigs, 

 1-11 in. long; rhachis white-puberulous ; bracts all minute; male 

 several-flowered, ovate, acute ; male buds glabrous, distinctly pedi- 

 celled ; female calyx 4-6-partite ; lobes ovate, acute ; ovary distinctly 

 3-ceIled, harshly puberulous ; styles 3, free to the base, laciniate ; 

 s^eds globose, DG, Prodr.xv. ii. 804 ; Prain in Keiv Bulletin, 1913, 

 12. ^ A. fpeU'oIcms, Sond. in Linnsea, xxiii. 117 ; Walp. Ann. iii. 367. 

 Hidnocarpus sonderianas, 0. Kiintze, Bev, Gen, PL ii. 618. 



Eastern Regio>^: Natal; near Durban, Gueinzius, 11 ! 510 ! Gerrard, 1625 ! 

 A very distinct species. 



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