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CXXII. EUPHORBIACE^ (HUTCHINSON ). 



[Acalypha* 



21. A.fruticoxa. 



22. A. ceraceopunctata, 

 . 23. A. puhiflora. 



Young stems pubescent ; 

 f emiile bracts nearly glab- 

 rous outside . . 19. .4. polymorpha. 

 Young stems densely yellow- 

 tomentose ; female bracts 

 adpressed-pilose outside . 20. A. crotonoides. 

 ••Male and female flowers on the same inflorescence or 

 in the same leaf-axil. 

 Leaves provided with usually numerous gold-coloured 

 glands on the lower surface ; glands on the 

 ovary (when present) sessile. 

 Female bracts usually sevei'al in each inflorescence, 

 less than ^ in. long. 

 Female bracts 1 -flowered, rather small ; ovary 

 pilose ....... 



Female bracts 2-flowered, conspicuous; ovai-y 

 glabrous ....... 



Female bracts 1-2 in each inflorescence, about 

 1 in. long and broad 

 Leaves without surface glands below; ovaiy glab- 

 rous or hairy and with gland-tipped hairs, but 

 no sessile glands. 

 Male flowers below the females in each inflores- 

 cence. 

 Leaves iind inflorescences crowded on very short 

 lateral branchlets. 

 Leaves oblong-lanceolate, i^-|- in. broad ; 

 petiole jj in, long ; female flowers 5-12 

 on each inflorescence .... 24. A. hoiviniana. 



Leaves obovate or elliptic-lanceolate, 1-1 1- in. 



broad; petiole ^-\ in. long; female 



flowers 2-4 on each inflorescence . . 25. A. acrogync, 



Leaves and inflorescences laxly arranged on 



more or less elongated shoots. 



Leaves with a petiole l^-2f in. long; ovary 



with tubercular-based hairs , . . 26. A.Engleri. 



Leaves subsessile ; ovary not tubercular . 27. A. Dumetorum. 



Male flowers above the females in each inflorescence. 

 Female bracts digitately 3-5-(i'arely 7-) partite. 



Perennial; stems from a woody rhizome . 36. A. Stuhlmannii. 



Annuals, sometimes woody at the base, no 

 rhizome. 

 Female bracts 3-partite ; a small slender 

 annual ...... 



Female bracts 5-(rarely 7-) partite ; plant 

 more or less woody .... 



Female bracts dentate, fimbriate or laciniate, 



with numerous teeth. 

 I Annuals, mostly sparingly branched. 



Female flower sessile in each leaf-axil, at 

 the base of but not on the axis bearing 

 the male flowers . . . . 30. .4. hochstetteriana. 



Female flowers arranged on the same axis 

 as the males. 

 Female bracts fimbriate . . . ^\. A. ciliata. 



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29. 



A. hrachystachya. 

 A . psilostachya. 



;A. 



