Acalypha. MONOECIA MONADELPHIA, 677 
ous, Jnvolucre small, hairy, dentate, one-flowered, Style 
multifid. : 
A native of the Moluccas. It differs from Konig’s A. be- 
tulina (in Retz. Obs. v. N85.) in having but one female 
flower in the involucre. 
5. A. chinensis. R. 
Annual, erect, very ramous. Leaves rhomb-ovate, cre- 
nate, Involucres cordate-crenate, on long axillary peduncles. 
Male flowers in a pedicelled head, from the involucre. Cap- 
sules muricated. 
A native of China. From Canton it was sent to the Bota~ 
_ hic garden, where it blossoms and ripens its seed during the 
rains ; and perishes at the approach of the cool weather in 
December. 
Stem erect, annual, very ramous, lower branches horizon- 
tal and nearly as long as the stem; the superior ones ascend- 
ing ; cells clothed with short, appressed, white hairs, one or 
two feet high. Leaves alternate, petioled, rhomb-ovate, cre- 
nate, obtuse, three-nerved, pretty smooth, Mae FLowErRs 
in a small, pedicelled head rising from the base of the invo- 
lucre. FEMALE FLOWERS from two to three, sessile in the 
centre of the involucre, immediately about the male pedicel ; 
they expand in remote succession, Calyx as in the genus. 
] - Capsules muricate, and hairy, Seed, integuments, perisperm 
and embryo as in A. virginica, Gert. Sem, ii, 116, t, 107. 
6. A, conferta. R. 
Annual. Leaves round-cordate, crenate. Flowers axil- 
lary, crowded, sessile. Involucres from three to four-parted, 
with from two to three female flowers, proliferous, the exte- 
rior one bears a minute head of male flowers. sree 
Tugose, 
A native of China, from thence introduced into the Botanic 
_ garden, where it grows, flowers freely, and Lip 
during the hot season. 
