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The most natural treatment for this species would therefore 
appear to be to treat it as including but one variety in addition to 
the type, as follows : 
Acalypha aad a uti supra; var. latifoliam, Mull. Arg. 
utt supra inclus 
{3 var. pilosior Pei: var. pilosam, Pax (1898) et formam 
pilosiorem, O. Kuntze (1893) uti supra includens. 
3. Acalypha glomerata, Hutchinson in Kew Bulletin, 1911, 229 
(1911) et in Dyer Fl. Trop. Afr. vi. i. 902 (1912). Ricinocar pus 
crenatus, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl, iii. 2, 291 (1893); nec vis ii, 617. 
Lourenco Marques : Lourenco Marques, Howard, 5696 
There is nothing to add to the account of this ere given by 
one of us in the Flora of Tropical Africa except - record the fact 
that it extends beyond the tropic into South Afric 
4. Acalypha ciliata, Morsk. Fl. Aegypt. ae 162 eiiks Hutchin- 
son in Dyer, £1. Trop. Afr. Vi. 1. 901 (19 
Transvaal: Shilouvane, Junod, 1028! 21881 
There is nothing to a d to the account of this species given by 
one of us in the Flora of Tropical Africa except to record the fact 
that it extends beyond the tropic into South Africa, 
5. Acalypha indica, eae TP Pl. ed. 1, 1003 (1753) ; Hutchinson 
in Dyer Fl. Trop. Afr. v 
Transvaal: Vaal Raver Burke! near Hausman’s Kraal, 4400 ft., 
Schlechter, 4185! Avoca, near Barberton, 1900 ft., Galpin, 1237! 
Komati Poort, Kirk, 105! Shilouvane, Junod, 1321! 1 1615! 
Natal : Tugela, Gerrard § Mc Ken, 1624 
The synonymy and the distribution outside South Africa of this 
species has already been fully discussed by one of us in the Flora of 
Tropical Africa, 
6. A Acalypha segetalis, Mull. Arg. in Journ. Bot. ii. 336 (1864) ; 
Hutchinson in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr, vi. i. 904 (1912). 
Transvaal : bf coos SE ; Springbok Flats, Sampson, 4410! 
Siaaihanc. Junod, 2346 
Great N amaqualand : Rehoboth, Fleck, 170! 
Little Bushmanland : without locality, "Fleck, 4 472a 
Lourengo Marques: Lourenco Marques, Quinta, 210! Matola, 
Schlechter, 11,686! Incanhini, Schlechter, 12,043! 
A species exceedingly closely allied to A. indica, Linn., the 
synonymy of which has been fully discussed by one of us in the 
Flora of Tropical Africa. The only addition which has to be made 
to that record is to note the fact that it extends oP aati beyond 
the tropic on the western as well as on the eastern si 
. Acalypha capensis, Prain. Caules dense ee pilosi; folia 
basi saepissime cordata, subtus ubique dense pilosa ; spicae foemineae 
ana ag in axillis supremis axillares. —Urtica ca ensis, Linn, 
— > 58 flaaae U. africana, Liinn. Mss. ex. Jackson, = 
148 (1912). Tragia villosa, Thunb. Prodr. Cap. 1 
a7 94) ei in — Cap. ed. Schult. 37 (1823) nequaquam ‘Aealgpres 
—- Jacq. Acalypha Kraussiana, Buching. ex Meisn. apud 
— 
rauss in Fl ora xxvii. 84 Aetna: ; sacctes ee in meas! Xxxiv,_ fn 
