^ 



474 EUPHOiiBiACE^ (Prain). \Acalyplia. 



pubescent and witli several long-stipitate glands on the upper por- 

 tion of each lobe ; styles 3-4, sparingly laciniate, about ^ in, long ; 

 seeds subglobose, \vith a large hilum. Miill. Arg. in DC, Prodr. xv. 

 ii. 845 ; Pax in Engl Pfi, Ost-Afr, C. 239 ; HutcTiinson hi Di/er, FL 

 Tro^. Afr. vi, I 888 ; Prain in Kcic Bitllefin, 1913, 18. A. zam~ 

 besica^ Miilh Arg. in Flora, 18G4, 440, and Ix. 845; Pax, Ix, 239; 

 Gihhs inJonrn, Linn. Soc, xxxvii. 470. A, villieatdis, MiilL Arg. Ix. 

 845, as to MelJer's Manganja plant only -^ Pax inBaiim, Kunene-Sanih, 

 Exped, 283; S. Moore in Journ, Linn. Soc. xl. 199, partly; not of 

 Ilocltst. A. villicaulisj var. minor ^ Mull. Arg, in AhhandL Naturic, 

 Ver, Bremen, vii. 26. A, Behmarmi, Pax in Bull, Herb. Boiss, vi, 

 733. Bicinocarpus senensls and iJ, zambesicus, 0, Kiinfze, Bev. Gen. 



PL ii, 618. 



Kalahaki Region : Eecliuanaland ; Masvipa Hiver iu Banqiiaketse Territory, 

 Jlolub I Transvaal ; near Pretoria, Scott Elliot, 1398 ! Rehmann, 4285 ! Fehr, 58 ! 

 'Wilms, 1321a ! Burtt'Davy, 695 ! 725 ! 5380 ! Bolus, 10838 ! Miss Leendcrtz, 56 ? 

 Aapies River, Burke I Klippaii, Rehmann, 5330! Houtbosch, Rehmann, 5915! 

 Rnstenberg, Collins^ 70 ! Warmbath, 3fiss Leendcrtz, 1561 ! Waterval Onder, 

 Je)\ldm, 6717 ! Lydenburg, Wilms, 1321, partly ! Johannesberg. Marloth, 3830 1 

 Sliilovane, Junod, 1039 ! 2178 ! 



Also rather widely spread in eastern Tropical Africa. 



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9. A. petiolaris (Hochst. apud Krauss in Flora, 1845, 83); 

 shrubby; stems prostrate or decumbent, less often ascending, woody, 

 8 in. to 2 ft. long, more or less densely pilose with long reflexed 

 hairs; leaves thinly to firmly membranous, long-petioled, ovate or 

 ovate-lanceolate, somewhat acutely acuminate, base deep-cordate, 

 margin crenate or crenate-serrate, 1-3 in. long, ^-IJ in. wide, thinly 

 pilose on both surfaces with long hairs, especially on the nerves 

 beneath, occasionally glabrescent above ; petiole ^-2 in. long, pilose 

 with spreading or somewhat reflexed hairs ; stipules subulate or 

 filiform, 1|— 2 lin. long, ciliate ; inflorescences 1 -sexual, moncecious, 

 male lateral and female terminal on the same branch ; male spikes 

 axillary, solitary, narroM^-cylindric, on slender peduncles beset with 

 long-spreading hairs, up to ^ in. long, the spikes | in. (at length up 

 to I in.) long, dense-flowered ; male bracts ininute, lanceolate ; male 

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

 solitary, oblong, up to f in. long, ^ in. across ; bracts 1-2-flowered, 

 more or less oblong, deeply 6-7-lobed, under -J in. across ; lobes 

 subulate or lanceolate, acute, up to 1 lin. long, setosely long-ciliate, 

 with or without a few stalked glands on their margins towards the 

 base, rarely with glands and hairs on the inner side ; sepals 3, lanceo- 

 late, subacute; ovary 3dobed, pilose in the upper half, w'ith or 

 without stipitate glands intermixed ; styles 3, slender, about ^ in. 

 long, laciniate ; seeds subglobose, with a large hilum. Miill Arg. 

 in Linn8ea, xxxiv, 29, and in DC Prodr. xv. ii. 847 ; Prain in Kew 

 Bulletin, 1913, 18. A. languida, E, Meyer, in Brege, Zicei^ Pfl^ 

 Bociunente, 161 ; Sond, in Linnmi, xxiii. 116; BailL Adansoniay iih 

 157; Mail Arg, Ix. 29, and Z,c. 848. A. IracJiiata, Krauss, Ix, «3 ; 



