482 EUPHOKBIACE.^ (rraiii). [^Acalypha. 



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its foliage this most resembles A. Wilmsn, Pax, bvit the absence of stipitate 



glands from the undersurface prevents A. caperonioides from being mistaken for ^ 



that species which, moreover, has different female bracts. The foliage in Galpiu, 



1106, differs from that which is usual in the species in being thinner and more 



densely shaggy with long grey bulbous-based hairs. This plant may eventually 



prove to represent a distinct species ; it agrees with A, caperonioides in having 



almost entire style-arms. 



18* A. punctata (Meisa. apud Krauss in Flora, 1845, 83) ; 

 herbaceous; stems leather stout, i^ather copiously branched, 1-2 ft. 

 high, from a stout perennial woody stock ; branches virgate, striate, 

 pubescent to rather copiously patently setulose ; leaves meuibranous, 

 numerous, very shortly petioled, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, the lowest 

 u^iually obtuse, the uppermost acute, base rounded, margin sharply 

 often coarsely serrulate, l|-2ii- in. lung, 1— 1| in. wide, pubescent to 

 strigose, especially on the nerves on both surfaces and on the 

 margins, rarely almost glabrous, between the reticulations usually 

 very distinctly glandular-punctate ; petiole pubescent or setulose, 

 1-1^- lin. long ; stipules setulose, lanceolate, persistent, 1^-2 lin. 

 long ; inflorescence 1 -sexual, dioecious ; male spikes axillary, solitary, 

 peduncled ; peduncles puberulous to pubescent and glandidar, 2i-6 

 in, long; spikes cylindric, dense-flowered, rather stout, l^-l^ "*■ 

 long : bracts lanceolate, puberulous or pubescent, 1 in. long, spread- 

 ing, persistent ; buds puberulous or glabrous ; female spikes 

 terminal, solitary, sessile, 1 in. (ultimately 2 in.) long; bracts 

 1 -flowered, subscssile, leafy, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, -0^-3 in. 

 long, nearly as wide, deeply toothed, teeth lanceolate, acute, rather 

 densely pubescent and beset with stipitate glands outside j sepals 3, 

 ovate, acute, glandular ; ovary distinctly 3-lobed, pubescent and 

 glandular in the upper half; styles 3, united in their lower third, 

 1 in. long, markedly laeiniate upwards; seeds subglobose. Frain in 

 Kew Bulletin, 1913, 23. A. jyeduncularis, Pax in Engl Pfl. OstAfr. 

 G. 239 partly and as to Nyasaland plant ; KutcJiinson in Dyer, FL Trop. 

 Afr. vi, i. 884:, partly and as to Nyasaland and Gazaland specimens; 

 Gandog, in Bull Sac. Bat Fr. Ix. 27; not of E. Meyer. A. pednn- 

 cularisj var, punctata, MiilL Arg, in Linndca, xxxiv. 28, and in DC. 

 Prodr, XV. ii. 846. Bicinocarpiis pcduncidaris, var. punctaiuSy 

 0. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PL iii. ii. 292. 



Var. ^, loEgifolia (Px-dln lu Kew Bulletin, 1913, 24); ntems 1-2 ft, high; 



leaves lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, acute, 2-2 j in. long, " ' ' " "■ "^ * '" 



as ill the type. A. longifoliu^ E. Majcr ex Prain, I.e. 



Var, 7, Eogersii (Praia, I.e. 24); dwarf; stems i-6 in. high ; leaves oblong 

 or narrow-oblong, oLtucie, ^-1 in. long, J-i in. wide, otherwise as in the type. 



Kalahari Region: Orange River Colony; Besters Vlei, near Witzies Iloek, 

 5700 ft., Bolus, 8251 ! and without precise locality, Rogersl Transvaal ; Barberton, 

 2500-4000 ft., Galpin, 429 ! Mac Mac Creek, Mudd ! Var. j3 : Transvaal ; Witklip, 

 4800 ft., Burtt-Bar^, 7264! Barberton, Fairview Farm, ^?^•^^i>«^2/, 4080! Aapies 

 River, Scott Elliot, 14491 Rehmann, 4016! 4283! Miss Leendertz, 1003! Derde 

 Poort, Miss Leendertz, 363, partly ! Var. 7 : Tran.svaal ; Waterval Boveii, 4SO0 ft., 

 Rogers, 2%%\ Saddlekick Mountiun, 4500 ft., Galpin, 1121! Shilovaiie, Jiuiod, 

 1325! Swaziland, Stewart, 8917! 



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