_ Acalypha. MONOECIA MONADELPHIA, 675 
ed ; leaflets ovate-lanceolate, laciniate. Corol none. Nectary 
four small, roundish, reniform scales alternate with the leaf- 
lets of the calyx. Filaments columnar, very short. Anthers 
four, linear-oblong, and placed transversely round the apex 
of the column. Female calyx five-leaved ; leaflets broad- 
lanceolate, fringed. Corol none. Nectary a six-lobed, small, 
saucer-shaped body round the base of the germ. Germ 
three-lobed, three-celled, with two ovula in each, attached to 
_ the axis from the middle upwards, Styles three, but bifid, 
and spread over the apex of the lobes of the germ. Stigma 
simple. Capsule small, three-lobed, three-celled, six-valv- 
ed. Seeds two in each cell, when all come to maturity. 
Perisperm conform to the seed. Embryo inverse, as in the 
genus. ; 
ACALYPHA. Schreb. gen. N. 1461. 
Male calyx from three to four-leaved. Corol none. Stig- 
mas from eight to sixteen. Female calyx three-leaved. Co- 
_ rolnone, ‘Styles three, ramous, Capsules tricoccous. 
1, A. Indica, Willd, iv. 523. 
Annual, erect. Leaves ovate, serrate. Spikes longer than. 
the petioles, Jnvolucre cowled, and notched, containing 
from two to four female flowers. 
Cupameni, and Wellia Cupameni, Rheed. Mal. x. t. 81. 
and 83. 
Beng. Shwet busunta. 
Teling. Moorkanda, - 
An annual, very common every where, particularly in gar- 
dens, where it is in flower all the year round, 
Stem erect, from one to two feet high, branchy, round, 
smooth. Leaves scattered, petioled, ovate-cordate, three- 
nerved, serrate, smooth, about two inches long, and one and a 
half broad, Petioles as long as the leaves, Stipules small, 
_ subulate, Spikes axillary, generally single, peduncled, erect, 
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