Acalypha.] cxxii. euphorbiace^ (hutchinson). 901 



lanceolate-subulate, J lin. long, rather sparingly ciliate. Flowers 

 monoecious. Male spikes shortly pedunculate, solitary in each leaf -axil 

 together with a solitary sessile female flower ; male peduncle nearly 

 2 Tin. long, pubescent ; flowering part about 1 lin. long. Male buds 

 glabrous. Sepals 4. Bract of the female flower very small, almost 

 saucer-shaped, subentire, sparingly setose on the margin. Sepals 3, 

 lanceolate, ciliate. Ovary warted ; styles short, laciniate. Seeds 

 broadly ovoid, glaucous, sparingly warted, 1 J lin. long. — MUll. Arg. in 

 DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 864. Mercurialis alternifolia, Hochst. ex Baill. 

 Etude Gen. Euphorb. 490, sub sect. B, not of Lam. Hicinocarpus 

 alternifoUus, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. ii. G17. 



M"lle Ziand. Cordofan; in spongy muddy places on Arashkol Mountain, 

 Kotschy, 156 ! Ethiopia, Kotschy, 26 ! 



31. A. ciliata, Forsk. Fl. JSgypt.-Arah. 162. An erect sparingly 



branched annual about 2J ft. high ; stem shortly pubescent with 



recurved hairs, sulcate. Leaves ovate-elliptic or rhomboid-ovate, 



caudate-acuminate, rounded or subcuneate at the base, 1J-4J in. long, 



|-2 in. broad, crenate-serrate, membranous, very slightly scabrous on 



both surfaces, digitately 5-nerved at the base, remaining lateral nerves 



4-5 on each side, sliglitly raised on both surfaces ; tertiary nerves 



subparallel, rather distant, very slender ; petiole 1-3 J in. long, sulcate, 



usually slightly pubescent when young, at length glabrous; stipules 



filiform, about 1 J lin. long, slightly pubescent. Inflorescence bisexual, 



axillary, solitary or geminate, |-1 in. long, about 10 female flowers in 



the lower part, the upper part male and spicate ; axis puberulous. 



Male buds slightly puberulous. Female bracts suborbicular, 2 lin. long, 



3 lin. broad (when spread out), about 20-laciniate-toothed, and as many 



ribs on the outside, the teeth shortly ciliate, otherwise glabrous. 



Sepals 3, ovate-lanceolate, very small, membranous, ciliate. Ovary 



trilobed, small, sparingly "pubescent in the upper part; styles 3, slender, 



laciniate. Seeds ovoid, very minutely pitted, | lin. long. — Vahl, Symb. 



i. 77, t. 20 ; Willd. Sp. PI. iv. 522 ; Benth. in Hook. Niger Flora, 504 ; 



Baill. Adansonia, i. 72 ; Miill. Arg. in Linnsea, xxxiv, 44, and in DC. 



Prodr. XV. ii. 873 (incl. vars. genuina and trichophora, Miill. Arg.) ; 



Wight & Arn. in Ann. Nat. Hist. ii. (1839) 111, t. 5; Dalz. & Gibs. 



Bomb. Fl. 228 ; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. v. 417 ; Pax in Engl. Pfl. Ost- 



Afr. C. 239 ; Pax in Baum, Kunene-Samb. Exped. 283 ; Watt, Diet. 



Econ. Prod. Ind. i. 62; Cooke, Fl. Bomb. ii. 611 ; N. E. Br. in Kew 



Bulletin, 1909, 141. A.fimhriata, Schum. & Thonn. Beskr. Guin. PI. 



409; A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 245; Baill. Adansonia, i. 272. 



A. vaJdiana, Miill. Arg. in Linnjea, xxxiv. 43, and in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 



873 ; Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 147, t. 96 ; Pax in Engl. Pfl. 



Ost-Afr. C. 239 ; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 978 ; De Wild. & 



Durand, Contr. Fl. Congo, i. 51, ii. 57, and Roliq. Dewevr. 211 ; De 



Wild. Miss. E. Laurent, 131, and Etudes Fl. Bas- et Moyen-Congo, 



ii. 284. Ricinocarpus ciliatus and B. vahlianuSj O, Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 



PI. ii. 617-8. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Schumacher S( Thonning ! Roger, 641 



