898 cxxii. EUPHORBiACEiE (hutchinson). \^Acalypha. 



bracts small, 1 -flowered. Sepals 5, ovate-lanceolate, ciliate in the 

 upper part. Ovary conspicuously echinate ; styles 3, much laciniate, 

 glabrous. Capsule echinate, about 2 J lin. in diam. Seeds rounded, 

 smooth. — Claoxylon sp., De Wild. & Th. Durand, Reliq. Dewevr. 209. 



Soutli Central. Belgian Congo : Fort Beni, Mildbraed, 2334 ! 2341 ! 245S ! 

 forest of N'Kembo, Dewhvre, 441 ! 



26. A. Engleriy Pax in Engl. Jahrh. xxxiv. 372. A shrub about 

 6 ft. high ; branches softly hirsute. Leaves elliptic or slightly rhomboid- 

 elliptic, acutely acuminate, more or less cuneate at the base, 3-5J in. 

 long, l^— 3^ in. broad, dentate or subserrate, subentire towards the base, 

 membranous, shortly pilose above, long-pilose with spreading hairs on 

 the nerves beneath, H-nerved at the base, remaining lateral nerves about 

 6 on each side, looped near the margin, prominent below ; tertiary nerves 

 parallel, about 2 lin. apart ; petiole 1^—2 J in. long, rather densely pilose ; 

 stipules linear-subulate, pilose, 2 lin. long. Inflorescence bisexual, very 

 slender, solitary; axillary towards the ends of the shoots, about 5 in. long, 

 10-15 female flowers in the upper part, the remaining lower part male; 

 axis pubescent. Male buds sparingly and minutely puberulous. Female 

 bracts 5-partite, rather small, segments linear-lanceolate, pilose outside, 

 not glandular. Sepals 3, linear-lanceolate, acute, ciliate. Ovary densely 

 clothed with tubercular-based hairs ; styles 3, stout, much laciniated. 

 Capsule not seen. 



Mozamb. Blstr. German East Africa: Tanga ; between Muhesa and 

 Lungusii, Enffler, 357 ! 



27. A, dumetoramy Mull. Arg. in Journ. Bol. 1864, 334, partly. 

 An erect sparingly branched undershrub, 2-4 ft. high ; branches virgate, 

 leafy towards the apex, puberulous or nearly glabrous ; young flowering 

 branchlets whitish-tomentose. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, slightly 

 rounded at the base, 1-2 J in. long, J-| in. broad, finely crenate, rigidly 

 coriaceous, dull on both surfaces, rather densely setulose above, pubes- 

 cent below especially on the nerves and cross-nerves ; lateral nerves 5-7 

 on each side, ascending and continued to the margin, not or only a little 

 branched, prominent below ; tertiary nerves parallel, rather Close, raised 

 below ; petiole rather stout, 1 lin. long, whitish-tomentose ; stipules 

 linear-subulate, subterete, 2-4 lin. long, sparingly pubescent. Inflo- 

 rescence axillary, solitary, the largest about 2 in. long, bisexual, the 

 lower half consisting of small crowded shortly pedicelled male, the 

 upper of densely arranged sessile female flowers. Male buds 4-lobed, 

 very sparingly and shortly pubescent. Bracts of the female flowers 

 obconic, nearly closed around the flower, about 2 lin.long, rather deeply 

 and irregularly dentate or lobed with about 20 teeth or lobes, nerves 

 distinct on the inside, tomentose outside. Sepals 4, broadly ovate, sub- 

 acute, \ lin. long, pilose in the upper half on the outside, glabrous within. 

 Ovary rather deeply trilobed, shortly pubescent ; styles 3, free to the 

 base, suberect, laciniate on the inner face. Seeds smooth. — Miill. Arg. 

 in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 821 ; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 976. Ricino- 

 carpus dumetorum, 0. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. ii. 617. 



