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leaves, ay remaining one, a, has velvety leaves, and is identicai 
with No. 19, A. velutina, A. Mey y- ., Which is therefore also referable 
to A. eee. the one marked b, however, includes some speci- 
mens which are not distinguishable from typical A, glabrata, Thunb, 
To the second Thunbe ergian species belong 14, A. iscolor, 
E. Mey., and 22, Acalypha, 8240, both of which are A, capensis, 
Of the remainder, os. 6, 7 and 8 represent.a distinct species, 
A, languida ; Nos. 15, 16 and 17, another distinct species, A. pedun- 
cularis ; while No. 21, Acalypha, 5380, represents yet another 
species for which, in Hb. Liibeck, Meyer proposed the name 
“ A. longifolia 
Briefly summarised, we find then that Drége had repeated both 
of Thunberg’s species :— 
. capensis, under she 14, 22, a 
2, A. glabrata, Thunb., under porareneen 2 (in part), 4, 5, 20, 
23, with the addition, as species, of two varieties of 
A. glabrata, v 
ss i. Megs non Retz, under references 2 (in part), 
3, a 
veliting: EE. Mey., under references 1, 19. 
But in addition to these two species Drege has added four 
more :— 
3. A. languida, &. Mey., under references 6, 7, 8 
4, A. brachiata, £. Mey., under references 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 
5.7 A; peduncularis, E. Mey., under references 15, 16, 17. 
6. A longifolia, E. Mey., under reference 21. 
Unfortunately, these four species were 56 properly aps tae 
in 1843, and the last of the list, A. longifolia, was not ev 
in Drage’ 8s Zwei pflanzengeographische Documente. Owing to "this 
circumstance, although all the four species recognised by Meyer are 
valid, only one of his names has been maintained. 
Tn 1845, Krauss published in Flora, vol. xxviii., on pp. 82-84, an 
account of the species of Acalypha which he had collected in Seuth 
Africa. In dealing with his material he appr to have had the 
assistance of Buchinger, who named some of his specimens, and of 
Meisner and Hochstetter, who described some of the species. 
t is somewhat singular that among the pt ia collected _by 
Krauss there should be no example of A. glabra 
n. 1826, however, which was dealt with by Bocketortes who 
identified it with A. discolor, E. Mey., and provided a description of 
the species, is the original A. decumbens, Thunb., a fact which neither 
Hochstetter nor Krauss appears to have detected. His n. 1825 was 
named by Buchinger A. Kraussiana. This name was taken up by 
Meisner, who provided a description for the plant. In so doing, 
Meisner appears to have overlooked the fact that A. Kraussiana is 
identical with Tragia villosa, Thunb., and had no means of knowing 
that it is identical with Urtica capensis, Linn. f. 
Krauss collected, as his Nos. 319 and 367, two plants, one near 
‘Durban, the other near Maritzburg, which, in spite of their identity 
as regards external appearance, he ref erred to different species. 
One of the two, n. 319, was taken to be A. brachiata, E. Mey.; the 
= Pa n. 367, ‘it was supposed might perhaps be A. languid: 
oe — ‘The two ———— Lasse is A. brachiata , E. Me, 
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