472 EUPHORBIACE.^ (Prain). [Acaly})ha. 



Arg. in DC, Proclr. xv. ii. 877 ; mem in Cat. Afr. PL Welw. i. 979; 

 Hutchinson in Dijer, FL Trop, Afr, vi. i. 904 ; Prain in Kew Bulletin, 

 1913, 15, A, sessills, De Wild & Biirand in BuIL Herb. Boiss, 



2ine sh\ i. 47; De Wild. Miss. A Laurent, 131, and Etudes FL Bas- 

 el Moyen-Congo, ii. 284; not of Poir, A, sessUis, var. hrevfbracteata, 

 3liilh Arg, in Flora, 1864, 465, A. sessilis^ var, exserta^ MiilL Arg. 

 I.e. A, gemina, var, hrevibraeteata, MiilL Arg. in Linnsea, xxxiv. 

 41, and in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 866. A. genuina, var. exserta, MiilL 

 Arg. ll.cc. IHchiocarpus segeialis, 0. Kuntze, Bev, Gen. PL ii. 618. 



Western Region : Great Namaqualand ; Rehoboth, Fleck; 170 ! Little Busli- 

 manland ; without precise localityj Fleck, 472 a ! 



Kalahari Region : Transvaal ; Springbok Flats, Sampson, 4410 ! Sliilovane, 



Junod, 23 46! 



Eastern REcroN : ^^atal ; near Colenso, 3000-4000 ft., Wood, 4552 ! Delagoa 

 Bay; Lourengo Marques, Quintas, 210! Mabola, Scklcchter, 11686! Tncaiihini, 

 Schlechter, 12043 ! 



Also ratber widely spread in Tropical Africa, 



Very, perhaps too, closely allied to A. indica^ Linn. 



7. A. decumbens (Thunb. Prodr. 117) ; shrubby, perennial ; stems 

 very slender, 6-8 ft. long, copiously branched, decumbent and 

 sometimes rooting at the nodes or climbing over bushes; branches 

 very slender, faintly striate, glabrous ; leaves membranous, long- 

 petioled, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute, margin coarsely crenately 

 toothedj on the smaller twigs with the base often truncate, \-h in* 

 l*^^g? \-\ 1^- wide, on the main branches with the base distinctly 

 to deeply cordate, f-l^ in, long, J-1 in. wide, glabrous above, very 

 closely softly white- or grey-puberulous-hoary beneath ; petiole 

 |-| in. long, sparingly puberulous; stipules linear, spreading, 

 glabrous, 1 lin. long; inflorescences 1-sexual, male and female 

 distinct, both axillary, but the female spikes nearer the tips of 

 the twigs than the male and sometimes aggregated in a terminal 

 thyrsoid leafless spike; male spikes soHtary to their axils, very 

 slender, 11-2 in. long, with a naked peduncle -^-1 in. long ; peduncle 

 and rhachis finely puberulous ; bracts minute, puberulous ; buds 

 puberulous; female spikes short, few-flowered, their peduncles 1-2 

 lin. long or shorter, with only 1-3 leafy bracts; occasionally the 

 lowest with a short terminal male portion; sometimes the leaves 

 towards the ends of the twigs obsolete and from 2-20 female spikes 

 aggregated in an ovoid mass up to 1^ in. long and \ in. across; 

 female bracts 1 -flowered, reniform-ovate, strongly and coarsely 

 5-9-toothed, white- or grey-puberulous-hoary externally, glabrous 

 within, ^-^ in. across; calyx deeply lobed, lobes ovate-lanceolate; 

 ovary Sdobed, densely papillose; styles 3, nearly free, densely 

 lacinulate : seeds subglobose. Thunh. FL Cap, ed, ScTiulL 545 ; 

 Spreng. SysL iii. 882. A, cordata, Thunh. ILcc. ; Spreng. I.e. 880.. 



P/. Documente, 161 ; HoehsL 

 , ^ ^ \, & Zeyh. Linnsea, xx. 213; 



BallL Adansonia, iii. 157; 3IiiU, Arg, in Linnsea, xxxiv. 38. A, 



ipud 



