Acalypha.} Euphovbiacecc. 5 J- 



rounded at apex, crisped at margin, shallowly lobed, rough 

 with stellate hairs above, soft and white with more copious 

 stellate hairs beneath, veins prominent beneath, impressed 

 above; petiole i-| in., with 2 small glands at the summit; 

 racemes very shortly stalked, male fl. sessile in upper part, 

 fern. fl. on curved ped. in lower part, all stellately hairy. 



Dry region, very rare. Nilavelly, near Trincomalie, 1864 (Glenie). 

 Throughout India and westward to Mediterranean region and Spain. 



28. ACAZ.YPKA, L. 



Herbs or shrubs; 1. alt., petiole long; fl. minute, apetalous,. 

 monoecious, mixed in axillary spikes, fem. surrounded by 

 large persistent bracts at base ; male fl. : — sep. 4, valvate ; 

 disk o ; stam. 8, on a convex receptacle, usually distinct, 

 anth.-cells divaricate ; pistillode o ; fem. fl. : — sep. 3-6, im- 

 bricate; ov. 3-celled, with one ovule in each cell, styles 3, 

 usually much divided into several long slender branches ;. 

 fr. a very small capsule of three 2-valved crustaceous cocci ; 

 seeds subglobose, testa crustaceous. — Sp. 220; 9 in Fl.B.bid^ 



Shrubs. 



Bracts, minute i. A. paniculata. 



Bracts, large toothed 2. A. fruticosa. 



Annual herbs. 



Bracts, shortly dentate-truncate . . . 3. A. INDICA. 



Bracts, 3-lobed 4. A. brachystachys. 



Bracts, deeply toothed 5. A. lanceolata. 



Bracts, fimbriate 6. A. ciliata. 



I. A. paniculata, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. ii. 406 (1859). 

 A. Wallichii, Thw. Enum. 271. Muell. Arg. in DC. 1. c. 802 C. P. 

 2096. 



Fl. B. Ind. V. 415. Rheede, Hort. Mai. x. t. 83. 



A small shrub, much branched ; branches virgate, divari- 

 cate, ascending ; young parts pubescent ; 1. numerous, alt., 

 1-J-3 in., ovate or oblong-ovate, rounded at base, acuminate, 

 acute, strongly serrate, sparsely hairy on both surfaces, thin \ 

 ])etiole various, often as long or longer than 1., spreading or 

 deflexed, slender, pubescent ; stip. minute, subulate ; fl. minute,., 

 monoecious ; male sessile in small clusters on very slender, 

 rather dense fld., ascending, axillary spikes ; fem. shortly 

 ped., on branches of large, erect, very lax, slender, terminal 

 panicles ; bracts minute, inconspicuous ; male fl. : — stam. 8 ; fem. 

 fl. : — sep. 5, linear, very acute, glandular-hairy; styles long, 

 erect, with many filiform, twisted branches ; capsule very 

 small, 3-lobed, strongly glandular-hairy. 



