Acalypha.] Euphorbiacecs . 59 



4. A brachystachya, Home in. Hort. Hafn. 909 (18 15). 

 Fl. B. Ind. V. 416. 



A herbaceous annual, 6-12 in., flaccid, nearly glabrous; 

 1. 1-3 in., long-petioled, ovate or cordate, acute, obtuse, or 

 acuminate, crenate-serrate, thin; petiole often longer than the 

 blade ; spikes all axillary, sessile, very short, androgynous ; 

 male fl. very few, in minute clusters at the top of the spike; 

 tracts \-\ in.; fem. in clusters, crowded at the base of the 

 spike; bracts very large, cut into 3 linear spreading i -nerved 

 obtuse lobes, 2-3-fid. ; styles pectinately laciniate ; capsules 

 quite concealed by the large green bracts ; seeds subglobose, 

 nearly smooth. 



Ceylon, Mrs. Walker (Herb. Kew). 

 India, Java, Trop. Africa. 

 Looks like a Triumfetta. 



5. A. lanceolata, Willd. Sp. PL v. 524 (1805). 



Burm. Thes. 204. Fl. Zeyl. n. 342. A. virgmica, L. Sp. PI. 1003 

 (in part) ; Moon, Cat. 65. A. hispida, Thw. Enum. 271 (non Burm.). A. 

 fallax, Muell. Arg. ; Trim. Syst. Cat. 82. C. P. 2092, 2097. 



Fl. B. Ind. V. 416. {A. fallax). Plukenet, Phytogr. ii. t. 99, f. 4. Burm. 

 Thes. t. 93, f. I ? 



Annual, much branched from base; branches prostrate or 

 ascending, glabrous or somewhat hairy; 1. small, ^-i^ in., 

 ovate-lanceolate, rounded or acute at base, acute at apex, 

 serrate, glabrous or slightly hairy, somewhat 3-nerved at base; 

 petiole longer than 1., somewhat hairy ; spikes very short, 

 sessile; fem. fl. numerous, rather lax; bracts short, hairy, with 

 several deep acute teeth ; capsules rather exceeding bracts, 

 liispid. 



A weed in the low country ; common. Fl. (?) 



Also in S. India, Burma, Malaya. 



The Ceylon plant is certainly A. la?tceolata, Willd., which is the 

 ■earliest name. Linnseus combined the plant with a N. American species, 

 and his name is thus inapplicable. There is no specimen in Herb. Herm. 

 I am doubtful whether Burmann's figure should be referred to this ; it 

 may be a large state. 



6. A. cillata, Forsk. Fl. ^gypt.-Arab. 162 (1775). 

 Thw. Enum. 273. C. P. 2095. 



Fl. B. Ind. V. 417. 



Herbaceous; stem i\-2\ ft; erect, scarcely branched, 

 pilose; 1. 1-2 in., oval, acute at base, acuminate, subacute, 

 finely serrate, thin, hairy on veins beneath ; petiole longer 

 than 1., spreading, slender ; spikes short, \ in. ; male fl. few, 

 sessile, very minute; fem. several, crowded at base of spike; 



