Alchornca.'] euphohbiacej^ (Praiii). 48.") 



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4-5 lin. long ; capsule glabrous, smooth, dark-brown, ^ in. across ; 

 seeds globose. Prain in Di/er, Fl. Trop. Afr. vi. i. 916. A. flori- 

 himda, var. glahrata, Mull. Ar(). in Journ. But. 1864, 336, and in DC. 

 Prodr. sv. ii. 905 ; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 979. 



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Eastern Region : Zululand : Ongoo, Gerranh 2160! 



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ALo ill Tropical Africa. 



2. A. Schlechteri (Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xliii, 221); a di.ecious 

 shrub ; twigs perulate, softly sparingly pubescent ; scales ovate- 

 ■oblong, scarious, brown ; leaves distinctly petioled, thinly mem- 

 branous, oblong or obovate, acuminate, base rounded, margin 

 crenulate-toothed, 4 in. long, 2-2\ in. wide, 3-nerved from the base, 

 niidrib with about 3 ascending nerves on each side above the basal 

 pair, glabrous above, when young sparingly hirsute with long 

 spreading hairs especially on the nerves but soon glabrous except 

 for tufts of hairs in the angles of the main-nerves and midrib beneath, 

 glands at the base beneath inconspicuous, the stipels at the apex of 

 the petiole above filiform, 2 lin. long; petiole softly pubescent or 

 puberulous, slender, |-1J in. long, channelled above; stipules fili- 

 form, \—^ in. long, deciduous ; male spikes lax, lateral, 3-4 in. long, 

 perulate at the base like the leafy twigs but with no leaves below 

 the flowers ; rhachis softly pubescent, naked or with a few empty 

 bracts belo^v, above with long lanceolate bracts X-\ in. long, each 

 subtending a cluster of 4-10 flowers ; female flowers long-pedicelled, 

 subsolitary at the end of leafy twigs, or in few-flowered racemes with 

 each flower solitary to a bract ; ovary closely and softly adpressed- 

 pubescent ; styles \-\ in. long; capsule nearly glabrous, smooth, 

 dark-brown, \ in. across ; seeds globose, slightly 2-sulcate on the 

 inner face, faintiv vei'rucose on the back. 



Eastern Region : DeLigoa Bay ; Louren<^o Marques, 100 ft., Forhes I Schlechter, 

 11530! 11531! JuHodl 



Also in Tropical Poituguese East Africa. 



Nearly allied to A. EngUri, Pax, and A. yaimbinfcmisis. Do Wild., and like them 

 a member of the section Stipellaria, Benth., which is perhaps best treated as a 

 genu^ di^stinct from Alchornea, but which should include at least the Africnii 

 epecies of Lepidotvrus, Baill. From the two nearly allied species, A, Schkchten 

 differs in beiug dioecious. 



MACARANGA, Thouars. 



Flowers dia^cious, rarely monoecious ; petals ; disc 0. Male : 

 Calyx closed in bud, splitting into 3-4 valvate lobes. Stamens 

 usually few, occasionally solitary, rarely numerous ; filaments very 

 short, usually free; anthers short, usually 4-celled and 4-valved, 

 but in the only South African species almost always 2-celled and 

 2-valved. Rudimentary ovary 0. Female: Calyx truncate o^ 



