Acalypha.] eui-horbiace-*: (Prain). 473 



discolor, p major, Baill. I.e. 158. A. capensis, /? decumhens, Prain in 

 Kew Bidletin, 1913, 16. A. decumhens, ff cor data and y gcnidnn, 

 Mull Arg. in DO. Prodr. xv. ii. 864. Micitiocarpns decumhens, 

 0. Kuntze, Bev. Gen. PI. ii. 617. 



L ■- 



Var^^, villosa (MiUI. Arg. in DC. Prodr. sv. ii. 864) ; twigs, petioles and 

 leaves beneath densely softly velvety with longish grey hairs ; leaves above 

 sparmgly adpressed white-pubescent ; female bracts softly strigose with spreading 

 white han-s ; leaves larger, up to 2 in. long, 1 J in. wide, more uniformly cordate 



— . * *, ^,^^v III J. V. \ytijj. etc. oL/tuit. oi ; nui ^icaiijpna vtiwsUy javq. iicatypna 



fcraussmna, Bucking, ex Jhlsu, apud Kraiiss in Flora, 1845, 84 ; Mull Arg. in 

 J^inn.'ea, xxxiv. 39. A. lamiifolia, Scheele in Linna^a, xxv, b%7 ; Baill. Adansonia, 

 lu. 158. A. grandidentata, Midi Arg, in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 823. A. capcns'is, 

 Pram in Kew Bulletin, 1913, 15. 



South Africa : without locality, Oshcck ! Sparrman ! Mund & Maire, 33 1 

 Zeijherl var. ^3: Alund <b Maire, 659! Di'ege, 8242! - 



Coast Region : Stellenbosch Div, ; Lowrys Pass, Schlechter ! Kiversdale Div. ; 

 between Little Vet River and Garcias Pass, Burchcll, 6925 ! near Riversdale, 

 400 ft., Kcissner, 11641 Schkchter, 1961! Mossel Bay Div.; Mossel Bay, Pmr ! 

 Ueorge Div. ; "Woodville, near George, Tyson ! Knysna Div, ; Gouwkamma River, 

 Arauss, 1826 I near Knysna, 1000 ft., Marloth, 244S, partly! Humansdorp Div. ; 

 Humansdorp, 300 ft., Zeyher, 3SiO ! EcMon * Zeylier, 73 ! Galpln, 4576 I 

 Kennedy \ West, 276 ! Gamtoos River, Thunherq ! Di^ege, 8240 ! Uitenhage Div. ; 

 Zwartkops River, Drege , 2313! V€rreaux[ Eckhn, 161! 162! Zeyhei', 3478! 

 3840 ! Ecldon d: Zeyher, 610 ! Maitland River, near the Leadmine, Burchell, 

 4494 ! Var. j3 : Riversdale Div. ; banks of the Vet River near Riversdale, MuiVi 

 -8o ! George Div. ; Outeniqua ^loiintains, Thunherg \ Montagu Pass, Rehmann^ 

 258 ! Knysna Div. ; near Knvsna, Burchell 5390 ! 5391 1 5392 ! Krauss, 1S25 ! 

 Marloth, 2448, partly ! Newdegate, Tyson ! VA^itte Drift, Plettenburgs Bay, Pappe ! 

 jJitenhage Div. ; Van Stadeiisberg Range, Zeyher \ near Uitenhage, Prior I Albany 

 ■Div. ; without precise locality, Bowie \ 



8. A. senensis (Klotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 96) j 



shrubby ; stems erect, woody, 1-2 ft. high, often angled or sulcata, 



hirsute or pubescent ; leaves thinly to firmly membranous, long- 



petioled, ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, sometimes linear-lanceolate, 



gradually acutely acuminate, base cordate, margin serrate or crenate- 



serrate, 1-3J- in. long, sometimes in tropical specimens up to 7 in. 



*^^o) ^^1^ i^. wide, hirsute or pubescent on both surfaces especially 



on the nerves; petiole |~1| in. long, pubescent and often hirsute ; 



stipules subulate or firiform, l|-2 lin. long, pilose ; inflorescences 



1-sexual, monoecious, male lateral and female terminal on the same 



branch ; male spikes axillary, solitary, narrow-cylindric, on slender 



pubescent or puberulous peduncles up to 1 in. long, the spikes 1 in. 



(at length 2^ in^ Jong, dense-flowered ; male bracts minute ; male 



buds almost glabrous; female spikes at the ends of twigs, sessile, 



2-1;^ in. long, ^ in. across; bracts l-2-9owered, suborbicular or reni- 



^orm, rather deeply 7-10-toothed, under \ in. long, about \ in. 



across; teeth wide-triangular, obtuse or faintly mucronate, puberulous 



^^d densely stipitate-glandular outside, but without long spreading 



hairs, inside glabrous ; sepals 4, lanceolate, subacute, somewhat un- 



^^ual, ciliate, pubescent outside ; ovary rather deeply 3-4-lobed, 



