Acalj/pka.] cxxii. EupHORBiACEiE (hutch^nson). 907 



|-1J iu. long, pilose. Bract subtending each cluster of male flowers 

 oblong-linear, Ij lin. long, ciliate. Male buds red, very sparingly- 

 pubescent at the apex. Female bract almost hidden within the stipule, 

 irregularly lobed to about the middle, sparingly pilose outside, glabrous 

 within ; lobes subulate, pilose, with no gland-tipped hairs. Sepals 3, 

 oblong-lanceolate, ciliate. Ovary densely hirsute with whitish hairs, 

 not glandular; styles slender, 2 lin. long, shortly laciniate. Capsule 

 and seeds not seen. — A. peduncularis, var.. Pax in Baum, Kunene- 

 Samb. Exped. 283, not of Meisn. 



Xiow^er Guinea. Angola : by the River Kubango, above Massaca, Baum, 

 270a! 



A very remarkable species, at once distinguished nmongst the African species by 

 the large trilobed stipules, which almost enclose the female flower at the base of each 

 male axis. 



39. A. subsessilis, Hutchinson in Kew Bulletin, 1911, 231. A 

 shrub ; branches subterete, bark slightly roughened, glabrous or nearly 

 so ; young branchlets puberulous. Leaves subsessile, oblanceolate or 

 obovate, very obtusely acuminate, the acumen often emarginate, cuneate 

 at the base, 1J-3J in. long, |-2 in. broad, chartaceous, obtusely serrate, 

 glabrous on both surfaces ; lateral nerves 6-7 on each side, looped and 

 branched within the margin, very prominent below ; tertiary nerves 

 lax, subparallel, conspicuous below ; stipules linear-lanceolate, strongly 

 keeled on the back, scale-like, slightly pubescent or glabrous, 2J lin. long. 

 Inflorescence bisexual, 1 in. long, one or two females at the base of each, 

 the males numerous in the upper part ; axis densely pubescent. Male 

 buds slightly pubescent or almost glabrous. Female bracts very small 

 and inconspicuous. Sepals 3, ciliate. Ovary setose-pubescent ; styles 

 laciniate. Capsule and seeds not seen. — Mallotus hrevipes, Pax ex Engl. 

 Pfl. Ost-Afr. A. 18, name only, not Acalypha brevipes, Miill. Arg. 



XlXozamb. Bistr. German East Africa: Usambara; Masheua, ITo/*^, 3568 ! 

 Tanga, Volkens, 185 ! Bagamoyo, Sacleux, 1444 ! Mount Ngorou, Sacleux, 980, 

 partly ! 



Var. mollis, Hutchinson, I.e. Branches and under surface of the leaves softly 

 and rather densely pubescent. 



Wile Iiand. British East Africa: Mazeras, Powell, 3, partly ! 



XtXozamb. Bistr. Zanzibar, Kirk! German East Africa: Bagamoyo, 

 Sacleux, 1445 ! Mandera, Sacleux, 980, partly ! 



40. A. neptunica, Mull. Arg. in Ahhandl. Naturw, Ver. Bremen, 

 vii. 26. A shrub about 3 J ft. high ; branches woody, subterete, clothed 

 with reddish-brown bark, puberulous when young, at length glabrous. 

 Leaves oblanceolate-elliptic, obovate or subrhomboid, shortly caudate- 

 acuminate, more or less narrowed to the base, 2-6 in. long, 1-3J in. broad, 

 obtusely serrate, submembranous or almost chartaceous, rather closely 

 pellucid-dotted, slightly scabrous above, glabrous below except for a 

 few very short hairs on the midrib and lateral nerves ; lateral nerves 

 5-6 on each side, looped near the margin, prominent on both surfaces 

 especially below ; transverse nerves rather faint, distant, often branched ; 

 stipules triangular-lanceolate, acute, brown and subscarious, 1^-2 J lin. 



