Acalypha,'] cxxii. euphorbiace^ (hutchinson). 905 



surfaces; petiole J-IJ in. long, slender, crisped-puberulous ; stipules 

 subulate, caducous. Inflorescences bisexual, usually solitary in each 

 leaf-axil, yery short, about | in. long ; 2-4 distantly arranged females 

 in the lower part, the males very few and terminal, remote from the 

 female, with a terminal abortive female as in ^. indica. Female bracts 

 2- flowered, foliaceous, ovate, acuminate, subcordate at the base, 5-6 lin. 

 long, about 8 lin. broad when spread out, crenate, about 10- nerved, 

 sparingly setulose on the nerves and margin, sometimes with a few 

 gland-tipped hairs intermixed. Sepals 3, ovate, J lin. long, sparingly 

 ciliate. Ovary rather deeply trilobed, sparingly clothed with tubercle- 

 based hairs ; styles 3, rather short, laciniate, otherwise glabrous. Seeds 

 ovoid, I lin. long, minutely and closely pitted. — Mull. Arg. in DC. 

 Prodr. XV. ii. 877; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 979. A. sessUis, 

 vars. brevibracteata and exserta, Miill. Arg. in Flora, 1864, 465, not of 

 Poir. A. gemina, vars. brevibracteata and fixserta, Miill. Arg. in DC. 

 Prodr. XV. ii. 866. A. sessilis, De Wild. & Durand in Bull. Herb. 

 Boiss. 2me ser. i. 47 ; De Wild. Miss. E. Laurent, 131, and Etudes Fl. 

 Bas- et Moyen-Congo, ii. 284 ; not of Poir. Kicinocarpus segetalis, 

 O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. ii. 618. 



Upper Guinea. Togo: Misahohe, Baumann, 221 \ Dahomey, Testu, 95! 

 Lagos, Millen, 2,1 ! Rowland ! Northern Nigeria : Nupe, Barter, 1490 ! 1495 ! 

 Lokoja, JDalziel, 163 ! Cnmeroons : Batanga, common in cassava fields and on the 

 roadsides. Bates, 40! Yaunde, Zenker Sf Standi, 611! Akwa, Dinklage, 150! 

 Kribi, Ledermann, 499 ! Kinada, Ledermann, 4684 ! Garun, on the Benue, Leder- 

 tnann, 4859 ! Dume, Ledermann, 4272 ! 



Ziower Guinea. French Congo: Brazzaville, Thollon, 420! Lower Congo: 

 Burton! San. Salvador, Buttner, 210 \ Angola: Golungo Alto; infields and by 

 the River Cuango, near Sange, Welwitsch, 389 ! 440 ! near Camilungo, Welwitsch, 

 416! Ambaca; near AmbacHj Welwitsch, 4,\Qb\ Malange district, Go.s*jt?ei7er, 998 ! 

 Huilla; Mounyino, Dekindt, 286! 287! and without precise locality, Anfunes, 

 230a! German South-West Africa: Tusfelsbach, Binter, 115! Okahandja, 

 Dinter, 451 ! Windhoek, Dinter, 328 ! 



IKKozamb. Slstr. Ngarailand: Kwebe Hills, JLTr*. iM^artf, 137 ! Rhodesia: 

 Victoria Falls, Rogers, 5386a ! 



Occurs also in Eastern South Africa. 



36. A. Stulilmaiini, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 99. Stems arising 

 from a woody many-headed rhizome, slender, pubescent or nearly 

 glabrous. Leaves subsessile, variable in shape and size, oblong or 

 linear-oblong, obtuse or subacute, mostly rounded or very obtuse at the 

 base, 1-4 in. long, J-1 in. broad, crenate-serrate, rigidly subchartaceous, 

 at first thinly pubescent on both surfaces, at length becoming glabrous 

 or nearly so ; lateral nerves 3-5 on each side, ascending, prominent below ; 

 stipules subulate, about IJ lin. long. Flowers normally monoecious. 

 Inflorescence axillary, bisexual or rarely subunisexual, up to 2 ^ in. long, 

 1 to few females at the base, the remainder consisting of a slender male 

 spike, sometimes the short lateral shoots towards the apex of each stem 

 entirely (?) female; male portion of each inflorescence very slender, 

 pedunculate ; axis very shortly pubescent. Buds sparingly puberulous. 

 Female bracts deeply laciniate, about 2 lin. long; segments about 10, 



