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seems better to separate those forms with long hairs on the leaves 
beneath from the forms in which there is only a short close hoary 
tomentum ; treating the former, which coincides with Miiller’s 
variety a, villosa but includes also A. grandidentata, as the type, and 
treating the latter as a distinct variety, [3, decumbens, which includes 
iiller’s variety (3, cordata. 
8. Acalypha senensis, Klotzsch in Peters Reise Mossamb. Bot. 96 
(1862); Hutchinson in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. vi. i, 888 (1912).— 
Spicae l-sexuales ; plantae monoicae ; folia longe petiolata ; caules 
erecti; bracteae foemineae glandulis stipitatis dense obsitae, nec 
tamen setosae. 
Bechuanaland : Masupa River in Banquakatse Territory, Holub! 
Transvaal: near Pretoria, Burke! Scott Elliot, 1398! Rehmann, 
4285! Fehr, 58! Wilms, 1321a! Burtt Davy, 695! 725! 5380! 
Bolus, 10838! Leendertz, 56! Aapies River, Burke! Boshveld, 
Klippan, Rehmann, 5330! Houtbosch, Rehmann, 5915! Rustenberg, 
Collins, 70! Warmbaths, Leendertz, 1561! Waterval Onder, Jenkins, 
6717! Lydenberg, Wilms, 1321 partly! Johannesberg, Marloth, 
3830! Shilouvane, Junod, 1039! 2178! 
Very close to, but still probably deserving to be considered a 
species apart from A. petiolaris, Hochst. A full account of the 
distribution of this species in Tropical Africa, where it is rather 
widely spread, and of its synonymy, has been given by one of -us in 
the Flora of Tropical Africa. 
 . 9. Acalypha petiolaris, Hochst. apud Krauss in Flora xxvii. 83 
(1845); Mull. Arg. in Linnaea xxxiv. 29 (1865) et in DC. Prodr. 
xv. Ul. 847. (1866).—Spicae 1-sexuales ; plantae monoicae; folia 
longe petiolata; caules decumbentes, bracteae foemineae dense 
setosae, parcissime glandulosae.— A. languida, E. Mey. in Drege 
wei Pfl. Documente, 161, nomen (1843); Sond. in Linnaea xxiii. 
116 (1850); Baill. Adansonia, iii. 157 (1863); Miill. Arg. in 
Linnaea xxxiv. 29 (1865) et in DC. Prodr. xv. ii, 848 (1866). 
(1891). RB. petiolaris, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. ii. 618 (1891). 
Cape Colony: Komgha Diy.; near the Kei River mouth, 
Flanagan, 454! 
Transkei: Bashee, Drege, a! 4594! Kentani, Miss Pegler, 870! 
Pondoland: between the Umtata River and St. John’s River, 
Drege, b! Murchison, Bachmann, 791! 
Griqualand Hast: Clydesdale, 2500 ft., Tyson, 1232! 2568! 
2693! 2694! ; : 
Natal: near au ! Gueinzius, 169! 506! 
errard & MceKen, 617! Rehmann, 8803! Wood, 68! 1408! 
near Phoenix, Schlechter, 3026! near Maritzburg, Krauss, 367! 
Inanda, 2000 ft., Wood, 254! Camperdown, t., Miss Franks 
in Herb, Wood, 11771! Rehmann, 7795! between Umzimkulu 
River and Umkomanzi River, Drége, c! 8421! Umgeni, Rehmann, 
8802 rtly! Umkomaas, Engler, 2569! Marianhill, auer, 
223! Friedenau, 1300 ft., Rudatis, 1185! without. precise locality, 
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