46 New SPECIES OF SOUTH AMERICAN PLANTS 
Pistillate flower solitary in the center of the fascicle, the 
calyx divided nearly to the base, the lobes ovate, obtuse, 4 mm. 
calyx. Petals sub-setaceous, two-thirds the length of the 
sepals. Ovary depressed-globose, densely and long brown- 
tomentose. Styles 5, about 4 mm. long, distinct, shortly 2-fid, 
the lobes at length recurved. 
taminate flowers later in developing and smaller, the 
petals broad, shorter than the sepals, the stamens numerous, the 
filaments somewhat sinuous, the anthers oblong, very obtuse 
or truncate, narrowly white-margined. 
Fruit not seen. 
“A shrubby tree, 8 feet high. A single specimen observed, 
in second growth at Valparaiso, 4,500 feet. January 18.” 
(Herbert H. Smith, Colombia, No. .1770. 
Acalypha salicioides. 
. Principal veins of the lower leaf-surfaces somewhat coarse- 
pilose. Branches rather slender, terete, finely nerved, very 
leafy. Stipules 4 to 6 mm. long, setaceous. Petioles to 2 cm 
long, slender, somewhat angled and nerved. Blades 1 to 2 dm. 
long, 4 to 6 cm. broad, lanceolate with blunt base and acuminate 
Staminate spikes mostly solitary in the axils, to 6 cm. long, 
Oo 
r 3 mm. thick, sub-sessile, an occasional pistillate flower at 
their base or in other axils. 
Staminate flowers densely massed, short-pedicelled, the 
rachis thick, the bracts minute. Sepals 0.5 mm. long, ovate; 
about as long as the filaments, the anthers large, sub-globose' 
Dissecting material for pistillate flowers wanting. 
“A small tree to 20 feet, moderately common in damp for- 
est, 500 to 2,000 feet, blooming in September and January. 
From Don Amo road, 500 feet, January 13. Also from near 
Cacagualita, 1,200 feet, February 23, and on rocky banks of 
Rio Gairo, 3,000 feet, March 22. The last is considerably 
larger as to leaves, etc." (Herbert H. Smith, Colombia, No. 
1428.) 
Acalypha amplifolia. 
oung stems, petioles, etc., finely tomentellat 
: y EC. e, the upper 
leaf-surfaces scabrous. Stipules broadly ovate, with a lon 
