132 CMS CVIII. EUPHORBIACEJE. [ Acalypha. } 
Villous shrub. Lenves 1 to 3 in. long, ovate or broadly lanceolate. 
Youle aod pis 1 or more at the base of the male spikes 
or in separate ax 1. A, nemorum. 
be or pe osea slender shrubs or trees. Leaves small, 
ong. 
Female flowering bracts sessile at the base of the males or in sepa- 
“rate ae or if —— with abnormal deeply divided muri- 
cate A. ale clusters approximate . A, eremorum. 
Female Mooii bracts on filiform pe eduncles with normal cap- ; 
sul Male clusters distant in filiform spikes . 8. A. capillipes. 
1. A. nemorum, F. Muell.; Muell. Arg. in Linnea xxxiv. 38, and in 
DC. Prod. xv. ii. 858. vits shrub of from 3 or 4 ft. to twice that he ight, 
2 ec shoots more or less softl ee the adult foliage sparingy 
Mies Ve omer tan or oblo ol tise or scarcely a inate, — 
ge : 
in. to 1 in. long, those of the ateral gon smaller, on short - 
tioles. Male des pug pedunculate, 1 to 2 in. long, the flowers — 
in clusters of 10 to 15 or more, on saper d short pedicels, with a 
pied axils, and bataati es several crowded in a short spike, each 
within an bibita crenate bract, atthtnih E 4 in. diameter. — 
Perianth-segments 3 or 4, very ‘small. ary UM Styles long 
TU. with capillar fodit A, poeni Muell. Arg. in Linnea - 
v. 95, and in DC. Prod. xv. ii. 861. ; 
Queensland. Brisbane river, p Dm. ia^ A, Cunningham, Leichhardt, F: 
y rief C. Stuart; Burnett river, F. Mueller; Wide Bay, B Bidwill : 
Wales. Hastings and Clarence ri vem. Beckler and A Richmond river, 
C. n New England, Techo rdt, C. Stu r 
e species is exceedingly variable in the a mentum, sometimes very den: se and — 
soft, re eao any, in the breadth of the leaves and length of the petii in 
the female bracts few or many, crowded and clustered, or Uum arig a short interrupted : 
2. A. eremorum, Muell. Arg. in Flora 1864, 440, and in DC. P. 
xv. ii, 863. A rigid shrub, with virgate or divaricate rather $ 
