900 cxxii. EUPHORBiACE^ (hutchinson). [Acalypha. 



broad, coarsely serrate, membranous, setose on both surfaces, digitately 

 5-7-nerved at the base, remaining lateral nerves 4-5 on each side, pro- 

 minent on both surfaces ; transverse nerves subparallel, slender ; petiole 

 1-2 in. long, more or less pilose or hirsute ; stipules subulate-liliform, 

 lJ-2 lin. long, rather densely pilose. Inflorescence bisexual, axillary, 

 solitary, l-o in. long, about 8-4 female flowers towards the base, the 

 remaining portion male, slender. Male buds very minutely pubescent. 

 Female bracts deeply digitately 5-lobed (rarely 7-lobed), including the 

 lobes about 3 lin. long and 5 lin. broad, lobes linear-lanceolate, acute, 

 submembranous, very sparingly ciliolate, setulose at the apex, other- 

 wise nearly glabrous. Sepals 3, ovate, about J lin. long, ciliate. Ovary 

 densely hirsute; styles 3, slender, 3 lin. long, laciniate, rhachis nearly 

 glabrous. Seeds subovoid, minutely mucronate, faintly pitted, 1 lin. 

 long. — Mull. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 865 ; Pax in Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. 

 Trop. Afr. 283, and in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 239 ; Oliv. in Trans. Linn. 

 Soc. xxix. 147; Rendle in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxxviii. 278. A. John- 

 stoni, Pax in Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 283, and in Engl. Pfl. 

 Ost-Afr. C. 239. Ricinocarpus psilostachyiiSj O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 

 PI. ii. G18. 



vrile Iiand. Abyssinia: between Enjedcap and SlioatH, iScAiw/jer, 660 ! Gerra- 

 Ahnim, Schimper, 15AS \ Uganda: Kuwenzori, 7000 ft., WoUaston ! Scott-Elliot, 

 7649! British East Africa: Lan jora, J'oAw^^on / 



IMCozamb. Blstr. German Eiist Africa: Karaswe, Speke Sf Grant ! Kili- 

 manjaro; MaranfTu, Volkens, 699! 762! 765! Johnston! Kinj,'a (Livingstone) 

 Riincre; Mount Kirunde, G^oc^ze, 904! Lager, Uhliy, i56\ Kissenge, Mildbraed, 

 1451 ! Kondeland ; Lungwe, Stolz, 76\ ! British Central Africa : Nyasaland ; 

 n.ar Mvvata Manga Stream, 4000 ft., Kirk! Mount Cliiradzulu, Whyte ! Zmnba, 

 4000-6000 ft., Whyte! Purves, 138! Mount Malosa, JFhyte ! Shire Highlands, 

 Scott-Elliot, 8503 ! Adamson, 34 ! Buchanan, 746 ! 974 ! 



South Central. Belgian Congo : Elisabethville, Rogers, 10053 ! Mount 

 Senza, Kdssner, 2917 ! 



Var. ylandulosa, Hutchinson. Bracts of the female flowers furnished with 

 numerous stipitate glands. 



Nile Xiand. Uganda : Ruwenzori ; Kivata, Scott-Elliot, 7649 ! 



XMEozaxnb. Sistr. German East Africa: Usambara; Kwai, Alhers, 114 J 

 Kafnro, Stuhlmann, 1719! nortli of Lake Nyasa, Thomson! British Central 

 Africa: Nyasaland; Nyika Mountains, Whyte! Songne and Karonga, Whyte! 

 between Kondowe and Karonga, Whyte! Fort Hill, Whyte! Milanji, Mahon f 

 Masuku Plateau, Whyte ! 



30. A. hochstetteriana, 2IulL Arg. in Linnceat xxxiv. 30. An 

 annual herb up to 2 ft. high, sparingly branched from the base ; stem 

 and branches shallowly sulcate, sparingly puberulous, with a few setose 

 hairs sprinkled here and there. Leaves lanceolate or elliptic, slightly 

 subacutely acuminate, somewhat narrowed to the base, |-3 in. long, J- 

 IJ in. broad, crenulate, membranous, sparingly setose on the margin, 

 otherwise glabrescent on both surfaces, rather closely pellucid-dotted, 

 digitately 3-5-nerved at the base, remaining lateral nerves about 3 on 

 each side ; petiole J-1 in. long, very sparingly pubescent ; stipules 



