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above blunt or rounded, or short-acuminate to a blunt tip ; the margins 

 undulate and revolute ; upper surfaces minutely puberulent, lower densely 

 fuscous-pubescent, except on the glabrate and slightly verrucose midribs ; 

 the veins above strongly impressed, beneath, with the strongly reticulat- 

 ing veinlets, prominent, meeting the midrib at an angle of 45 degrees : 

 racemes, with the bracts, short fuscous-pubescent, lateral in sessile fascicles 

 4 or 5 cm. long, in fruit densely covering the leafless branches : fruiting 

 pedicels slender, villous, 4 mm. long, articulated above the middle : the 

 outer fruiting calyx 3 cm. long, dividing 2 mm. above the middle into 

 three spatulate-linear reticulated wings, appressed-pubescent below, the 

 wings becoming glabrate toward the tips ; inner calyx-lobes linear-subu- 

 late, glabrous, about 4 mm. high, closely appressed to the deeply sulcate 

 faces of the akene : akene narrowly ovate, acuminate, 7 mm. long, ap- 

 pressed-villous ; below terete, with broad rounded angles and deeply 

 sulcate faces ; above sharply angulate ; persistent styles 1 mm. long, 

 equalling the linear stigmas. — Collected on rocky hillsides, January, 

 1895 (no, 511). A species in some ways suggesting B. Cumingii, 

 Meissn., but apparently well distinguished from that species by its smaller 

 obovate pubescent leaves, and its fascicled longer racemes. 



AcALTPHA Indica, L. Spec. 1003. Common about shady walls and 

 buildings and along stony arroyos, November, 1894 (no. 46). Perhaps 

 introduced ; native in Southern Asia and Tropical Africa. 



Acalypha Acapulcensis. A very slender shrub ; the dark brown 

 bark finely appressed-pubescent : stipules subulate, 1 ram. long, tipped by 

 a pair of minute white hairs : leaves 2 to 4 cm. long, ovate or ovate- 

 lanceolate, acuminate at the tip, rounded or subcuneate at the base, pin- 

 nately veined, minutely pruinose above, and appressed-pubescent on the 

 veins beneath, rather coarsely crenate-dentate ; on slender petioles |- to 

 ^ as long : spikes monoecious, axillary, pubescent ; the staminate spikes 

 very slender and short-peduncled (sometimes with one or two pistillate 

 flowers at the base), 2 cm. or less long, 1 mm. thick, the minute flowers 

 hispid ; pistillate spikes sessile, becoming 3 cm. long, with 6 to 9 scattered 

 bracts : bracts 2-flowered, reniform, 4 mm. long, 5 or 6 mm. broad, with 

 1 6 crenate teeth : the three red styles each deeply cut into 4 or 5 segments : 

 capsule hispid ; seed ovate, minutely puncticulate, 1 mm. long. — In 

 shady river-bottoms and depressions in the mountains, November, 1894 

 (no. 190). 



Lucnma Palmeri. A shrub, 1^ to 3 m. high; the reddish brown 

 bark of the young branches appressed-pubescent with ferruginous hairs, 

 becoming glabrate : leaves dai-k green, ferruginous-pubescent when young, 



