010 CXV. EUPnORBlACEiE. 



|)L-duiiculate solitary braet, or casually dioecious ; males very miuute, 

 ebraeteate; feuiales often at the base of large accrescent leafy bracts, 

 low on thi! male spike or in separate spikes. Perianth simple. Male 

 FLOWEiis : Se})als 4, valvate. Petals 0. Disk 0. Stamens usually 8, 

 sometimes many on a convex receplacle; filaments sliort, free; 

 anther-cells distinct, divaricate, often at length twisted or flexuous. 

 Pistillode 0. Pemale flowers : Sepals 3-4, minute, imbricate. 

 Petals 0. Disk 0. Ovary ^-celled ; ovule solitary in each cell ; styles 

 filiform, often very long and laciniate or fimbriate. Capsules of 3 

 minute 2-valved crustaceous cocci. Seeds subglobose ; testa crusta- 

 ceous ; albumen fleshy ; cotyledons broad, flat. — Distrib. Species 220, 

 tropical and subtropical. 



Female bracts solitary, very large, 2-flowerecl, entire 1. A. Dahcllii. 



Female spikes with several toothed or fimbriate bracts. 

 Bracts concealing the capsules. 



Bracts shortly dentate, truncate 2. A. indica. 



Bracts 3-lobed 3. A. hmchijstachija. 



Bracts fimbriate 4. A. ciliata. 



Bracts not concealing the capsules. 



Bracts glabrous, bordered with gland-tipped liairs ; 



capsules glabrous or nearly so 5. A. malaharica. 



Bracts iiairy, not bordered with gland-tipped hairs; 

 capsules hispid with bulbous-based hairs 6. A. lavccolata. 



1. Acalypha Dalzellii, Hool: f. Fl. B. I. v. 5 (1SS7) p. 414. 

 Shrubby, glabrous, nnich branched ; branches terete ; bark brown. 

 Leaves eglandular, membranous, 1|-2| by g-lg in., ovate-lanceolate, 

 subobtuse, obscurely crenate, glabrous, 3-5-nerved, base cuneate ; 

 petioles l-l\ in. long, very slender. Male floavers not seen. 

 Pemale FLOWEJts in pairs in the axil of a solitary reniform quite entire 

 bract \-h in. in diain., on a long filiform peduncle reaching 1 in. long. 

 Sepals lanceolate, ciliate. Ovary glabrous, 3-4-celled ; styles |)ectinately 

 laciniate. Pruit not seen. 



Balzell without locality in Herb. Kew. ! 



A very remarkable species of which there is !>ut 1 specimen in Herb. Kew. iVoin 

 Dalzell's Bombay Herbarium, the flowers on which are all I'enuile. No locality has 

 been assigned to tlie plant and the only reason for assuming it to be a native 

 of Bombay is that tlie sheet came from Dalzell's Bombay Herbarium. 



2. Acalyplia indica, Lhin. Sp. PI. (1753) p. 1003. Annual erect 

 lierb 1-2] It. high ; branches numerous, long, ascending, angular, 

 finely pubescent. Leaves 1-3 by .^-l^* in., ovate or rhomboid -ovate, 

 acute or subobtuse, crenate-serrate, glabrous, (bin, base cuneate, some- 

 what 3-nerved ; petioles usually longer than the blade, slender ; stipules 

 minute. Plowers in numerous lax erect, elongate axillary spikes, 

 the males minute, clustered near the summit of the spike, the females 

 scattered, 3-5 surrounded by a shortly pedunculate large leafy trinicate 

 dentate cuneiform many-nerved bract \—^ in. in diam. Ovary hispid. 

 Capsules small, hispid, quite concealed by the bract, often only 1-seeded. 

 Seeds ovoid, smootli, i)ah'-brown, J^j in. long. Fl. B. I. v. 5, p. 416 ; 

 Grab. Cat. p. 18(5 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 228; Wight, Icon. t. 877 ; Trim. 

 PI, Ceyl. V. 4, p. 58: Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) 

 p. 372 ; Prain, Beng. PI. p. !)J7 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 1, p. 02.— 

 Plowers: June-Sept. \'ern. A'ujn; Khokali. 



