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attenuate summit.  Petioles to 3.5 dm. long, stout, pale-green, 
strongly sulcate, erect. Blade to 3 dm. long, 2.5 dm. broad, 
extremely slender, nearly straight, the remaining venation 
obscure. Spikes nearly as long as their petioles, very slender, 
unisexual, the staminate densely flowered, the pistillate very 
Staminate Flowers.—Rachis and bracts clothed with long 
setose hairs, the sepals terminating in the same. Flowers very 
minute. 
Pistillate inflorescence clothed with similar, but smaller 
setose hairs. 
"A shrubby tree, to 15 feet. In a second-growth thicket 
near Valparaiso, 4,000 feet, January 26. Only one specimen 
seen." (Herbert H. Smith, Colombia, No. 1433.) 
Acalypha Williamsii. 
ered. Flowers solitary or two together, very shortly and 
stoutly pedicelled, the pedicels elongating slightly in fruit, sub- 
tended by minute bracts. Sepals 4, sub-equal, triangular- 
lanceolate, acuminate and acute, enlarging but little in fruit. 
Styles longer than the ovary, finely divided, the divisions nearly 
parallel. Capsules 3 mm. broad, 2 mm. high, deeply lobed, 
muricate, 
“A bush or small tree at San Buena Ventura, 1,500 feet, 
November 20, 1901." (R. S. Williams, Bolivia, No. 655.) 
Acalypha subscandens. 
stem divergent. 
rigid. 
