48 New SPECIES OF SOUTH AMERICAN PLANTS 
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Staminate Flowers.—Pedicels filiform, twice the length of | 
the flower, which is 4-merous, I mm. broad, the sepals ovate, 
minutely brown-apiculate. 
Pistillate flowers not found. 
“A slender shrub to 6 feet, apparently sub-scandent. One 
plant only seen in a thicket ina clearing in a rather dry situa- 
tion, 100 feet altitude, June 3." (Herbert H. Smith, Colombia, 
No. 2393.) 
Acalypha jubifera: 
Densely long-white- agak the hairs of the stem, etc., re- 
a Stipules 6 mm. long, lanceolate, long-acuminate and 
cute, brown, the RE ib prominent. Petioles to 8 a . long, 
dendak, shallowly grooved above. Blades 8 to » cm. long, 2.5 
to 6 cm. broad, ovate with regularly rounded base and NE 
short-acuminate and acute summit, thin, densely soft-hairy, — 
gray-green, ge the teeth short and broad, erect, the sinuses 
acute, 3 or 5-nerved from the summit of the petiole the lateral 
nerves short, the Rare: slender, about 8 to 10 on a side, - 
strongly ascending, then upcurved to connect near the margin, 
connected by numerous short, crooked tertiaries. Staminate 
catkins to 7 cm. long, about 4 mm. thick, densely flowered. 
Staminate Flowers.— Pedicels filiform, longer than the 
flowers, which are 1.5 mm. broad, 4-merous, the lobes broadly 
oval, obtuse, long-setose. 
Pistillate flowers not found. 
Collected in Bolivia by M. Bang, without number, locality 
or date. Specimen unique. j 
pees Won area 
Petioles to 6 cm. ae a 
16 cm. long, 5 to7c 
