676 MONOECIA MONADELPHIA. Acalypha, 
as long as the leaves, many-flowered, crowned, with a body 
in the form of a cross, the base of which is surrounded with 
a three-leaved calyx, the arms of the cross are tubular, with 
their mouths fringed, from the base of the cross on one side, 
issues a style-like thread, with a fringed stigma. The body 
of the cross contains an ovate seed-like substance. MALE 
FLOWERS numerous, crowded round the upper part of the 
spike, Calyx four-leaved, leaflets cordate. Filaments, their 
number I could never ascertain, so exceedingly minute are 
they. FrmaLe rLowers below the male,remote. Jnvolu- 
cre cup-formed, with an opening on the inner side, striated, 
smooth, toothed, from two to four-flowered. Calyx three- 
leaved, 
. 2. A, ciliata, Willd. iv. 522. Vahl, &e. 
Annual, Leaves serrate. Spikes axillary, shorter than 
the petioles. £nvolucres notched, one-flowered, ciliate and 
hairy....210 | : 
A rare species, but growing in similar soil with Indica, It 
is also like that, annual, and about the same size. 
Leaves as in A, Indica, except that they are a little hairy. 
Spikes axillary. FEMALE FLowers, Involucre one-flower- 
ed, toothed, ciliated, hairy. 
Note. The same terminal cross is to be found at the extre- 
mity of the spike in this species, 
3. A. pilosa. Willd, iv, 525. 
Annual, erect, hairy. Leaves long-petioled, cordate, ser- 
rate, three-nerved. Spikes axillary, as long as the petioles. 
Involucre cup-shaped, dentate, one-flowered. 
A native of the Moluccas, 
4, A. amentacea, R, | 
Dioecous, shrubby. Leaves long-petioled, ovate-cordate, 
taper-pointed, serrate, three-nerved. Stipules. ensiform. 
Spikes axillary, as long as the petioles, the male amentace- 
