Acali/pha.] cxxii. euphorbiace^ (hutchinson). 



881 



Flowers monoecious. 



Female inflorescence paniculate 

 Female inflorescence spicatc. 

 Ovary with gland-tipped hairs. 

 Leaves sessile or subsessile 

 Leaves with petioles ^-|- in. long. 



Stems short, arising from a rhizome; 

 bracts of the female flowers coarsely 

 dentate; sepals 3 . . . . 



Shrub or undershrub; bracts of the 

 female flowers lobed nearly to the 

 middle; sepals 4 

 Ovary without glund-tipped hairs. 



Stems very sticky with numerous giand* 

 tipped hairs • • . . . 



Stems not sticky, rarely with a few gland- 

 tipped hairs in the upper part. 

 Uracts of tlie female flowers with nume- 

 rous gland -tipped hairs on the teeth 

 or within (see also 16, villicaulis). 

 Styles hilobed and not laciniate 

 Styles laciniate. 



Leaves ovate, caudate-acuminate, 

 closely serrate .... 

 Leaves lanceolate or linear-lanceo- 

 late, dentate 

 Bracts of the female flowers without 

 gland-tipped hairs (rarely a few 

 present in 16, villicaulis). 

 Leaves linear ; ovary glabrous . 

 Leaves ovate, ovate-lanceolate or 

 oblong. 

 Ovary glabrous . 

 Ovary hairy. 



Leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate ; 

 petiole '^ in. long or more. 

 Stems villous with long re- 

 flexed hairs; bracts and 

 ovary densely hirsute 

 Stems shortly tomentose or 

 pubescent, or at length 

 nearly glabrous; bracts 

 and ovary pilose with 

 weak spreading hairs. 

 Petiole 1^-3 in. long; sti- 

 pules 2-3 lin. long 

 Petiole about ^ in. long; 

 stipules about 1^ lin. 

 long .... 

 Leaves lanceolate or obovate- 

 lanceolate, subsessile or 

 shortly petiolate. 

 A much-branched shrub 

 Stems simple, very short, aris- 

 ing from a woody rhizome. 

 VOL. VI.— SECT. I 



6. 



7. 



8. 



10. 



A. paniculata. 

 A. Teusczii. 



A. henguelenns. 

 A. senensis. 

 A. Allenii. 



11. ^. nigritiana. 



. 14. 



. 15. 



A, ornata. 

 A. paucifolia. 



A. angtistissima. 

 A. weltcitschiana. 



16. A. villicaulis. 



17. A. manniana. 



18. A. nyasica. 



3. A. chirindica. 



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