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Caules probabiliter e rhizomate orti, graciles, uate ad 17 cm. 
longi, compressi vel sulcati, juniores longe setosi et breviter 
pubescentes, demum gilabri. Folia lanceolata vel lineari-lanceolata, 
apice subacuta, basi rotundata, 2°5-5°5 cm. longa, 4-10 mm. lata, 
paullo repando-dentata, tenuiter chartacea, utrinque glabra costa et 
nervis lateralibus. setosis exceptis, nervis lateralibus utrinque 10 
arcuatis subtus veanoh venis laxis; petioli 8-12 mm. longi, 
saepius setosi vel puberuli ; stipulae lineari-subulatae, 4-7 mm. 
longae, fere glabrae. Flotes monoici. Inflorescentiae 6 solitariae, 
axillares, pedunculatae, 4-8 cm. longae; axis sulcatus, pubescens. 
Gemmae CG glabrae. Spicae Q terminales, 2°5-4 cm. longae ; 
bracteae parvae, late ovatae, caudato-acuminatae, circiter 10-den- 
tatae, dentibus dense stipitato-glandulosis. Sepala 3, lanceolata, 
cilata. Ovarium parvum, parce pubescens, glandulosum ; ; styl 
crassi, 4-5 mm. longi, laciniati, glabri. Capsule et semina non visa. 
TropicaL Arrica. Portuguese East Africa: near Lake 
Nyasa, W. P. Johnson, 457. 
1266. Acalypha subsessilis, Hutchinson [Euphorbiaceae ~ Cro- 
toneae]; affinis A. neptunicae, Muell.-Arg., foliis subsessilibus, 
inflorescentiis brevioribus, bracteis © minoribus inconspicuis differt. 
rutex ; rami subteretes, cortice glabro paullo rugoso; ramuli 
juniores puberuli, Folia subsessilia, oblanceolate vel obovata, basi 
area apice obtuse ae acumine interdum emarginato, 
4-9 cm. longa, 2-5 cm. lata, chartacea, obtuse serrata, utrinque 
istic. nervis lateralibs utrinque 6-7 intra marginem anastomo- 
santibus subtus valde prominentibus, nervis  tertiariis axis 
subparallelis le conspicuis ; stipulae lineari-lanceolatae, dorso 
carinatae, squamiformes, leviter pubescentes vel glabrae, 5 mm. 
longae. Flores monoici. Inflorescentiae 2°5 em. longae, basi floribus 
foeminis 1 vel 2, superne floribus masculis numerosis ; axis 
dense pubescens. (Gemmae ¢ leviter pubescentes vel fere glabrae. 
Bracteae Q parvae et inconspicuae. Sepala 3, ciliata. Ovarium 
setosum ; styli laciniati. Be cis et semina non visa.—Mallotus 
brevipes, Pax ex Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. vol. A. p. 18, nomen (non 
Acalypha brevipes, Muell.-Arg.). 
TropicaL Arrica. British East Africa: Mazeras, Powell, 3 
(partim). German East Africa: Usambara; Maschena, Holst, 
3568. iy Volkens, 185. 
Var. mollis, veer a typo ramis et foliis subtus molliter et 
dense pubescentibus differ 
TropicaL AFRICA. hack East Africa: Mazeras, Powell, 
3 (partim) ; Zanzibar, Kirk. 
1267, Cyrtogonone, Prain, gen. nov. [Euphorbiaceae-Crotoneae] 
genus inter Chrozophoreas prope Sumbaviam forsan melius ponendum ; 
a Crotonogyne Chrozophorearum, quacum adhuc 0 indumentum 
lepidotum consociatum, floribus paniculatis staminum indole petal- 
isque liberis aliquanto distat. 
Flores dioici, dichlamydei. G Calyx in — globosus, 
clausus, per anthesin irregulariter 2- peered Petala 5, raro 6, 
contorto-imbricata, libera. Stamina numerosa receptaculo parum 
convexo affixa ; filamenta ‘libera glandulis receptacularibus totidem 
consociata, summo apice inflexa, antheris fere triplo longiora, glabra ; 
