Acalypha.] cxxii. EUPHOEBiACE^ (hutchinson). 889 



(especially on the teeth) stipitate-glandular on the outside, glabrous 

 within ; teeth triangular, mucronate. Sepals 4, lanceolate, slightly 

 unequal, | lin. long, subacute, ciliate, pubescent outside, glabrous. 

 Ovary J5-4- celled, rather deeply 3-4-lobed, pubescent and with several 

 long-stipitate glands in the upper half of each lobe ; styles 3 or 4, 

 slightly connate at the base, ascending, sparingly laciniate, purple, 

 about J in. long. Seeds subglobose, nearly 1 J lin. in diam., not visibly 

 pitted, hilum large and spreading. — Miill. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 

 845; Pax in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 239. A. zavibesica, Mull. Arg. in 

 Flora, 18G4, 440, and in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 845 ; Pax in Engl. Pfl. 

 Ost-Afr. C. 239 ; Gibbs in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxxvii. 470. A. villicaulisy 

 Miill. Arg. in DC. Prodr. I.e., partly, as to Mellor 5 ; Pax in Baum, 

 Kunene-Samb. Exped. 283; S. Moore in Journ. Linn. Soc. xl. 199, 

 partly; not of Hochst. A. villicauliSj var. minor , Miill. Arg. in 

 Abhandl. Naturw. Ver. Bremen, vii. 26. Ricinocarpus senensis and 

 zamhesicus, 0. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. ii. (>18. 



Iffile ]Land. Jur : Jnr Ghuttas, Schweinfurth, 205S I Ugandii, Wilson, 52! 

 between NhiicIi and Kakainagas, Whyte ! British East Africa : Kitui, Hildebrandt, 

 2689 ! and without precise locality, Hannington ! 



£ower Guinea. Angola : by the Kubango River, near Eavanga, Baum, 408 ! 



Mozamb. Dlstr. Germnn East Africa : Usejruha, Scheffler,2&l \ Portuguese 

 East Africa : various localities. Kirk, 3 ! Scott ! Mrs. E. Cecil, 8 ! British Central 

 Afiica: Nyasaland; various localities, Meller, 5! Miss Kenyon,^^\ McClounie, 

 41! Whyte I Whyte ^ McClounie! Furves, 44! Scott-Elliot, 8599 partly! 

 Buchanan, 2Q I 351! 737! 823! 1384! Adamson,90l Rhodesia; various localities, 

 Jlolub, 819 ! 820 ! JRoyers, 8286 I Sykes, 197 ! Miss Gibbs, 225 ! Enyler, 3071 ! 

 Oaidner, 56! Gazaland; near Chirinda; Swynnerton, 382! Bechuanaland j near 

 Palapye, Lugard, 278 ! 



Var. chariensis, Hutchinson. Steins i-athertliicker and coarser than in the type, 

 densely fulvous-hirsute with reflexed hairs; styles laiiiiiate. — A. chariensis, Heille 

 in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, 1908, Mem. viii. 80. 



Upper Guinea. Northern Nigeria : Yola ; Bornu Road, Dalziel, 159 ! 

 Canierouns : Garua, Ledermann^ 5123 ! Kalgcy, Ledermann, 5185 ! 



irortb Central. French Congo : between Krebidje and the Kimo River, 

 Chevalier, 5495! Dar Bauda; Ara, Chevalier, 7196. lort Arcliambault, Chevalier^ 

 8734. 



Var. haplostyla, Hutchinson. Stems as in tlie type. Styles undivided or with 

 (•ne or two small segments. — A. haplostyla, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 98 ; De Wild, 

 fetudes Fl. Bas- et Moyen-Congo, ii. 284. A. haplostyla, var. longlfolia, De Wild. 

 I.e. i. 277 ? 



Soutb Central. Belgian Congo : Lunda ; Lulua River, Pogge ! Lukafu, 

 Verdick. 



10. A. AUeniiy Hutchinson in Kew Bulletin, 1911, 229. Steins 

 herbaceous, about 1 ft. long, deeply grooved, very sticky with numerous 

 gland-tipped hairs. Leaves ov«te-lauceolate or obJong-lanceolate, mucro- 

 nate, cordate at the base, 1J-3J in. long, J-l| in. broad, repand-dentate 

 or denticulate, rather rigidly chartaceous, setose on both surfaces; 

 lateral nerves G-8 on each side, the lower ascending, the upper arcuate, 

 prominent on both surfaces ; tertiary nerves parallel, rather close, pro- 

 minent below ; petiole J-J in. long, glandular-pubescent ; stipules 



