ADDENDA. 1()|J7 



20 subulate shortly pubescent teeth about J lin. long. Sepals :-;, lan- 

 ceolate. Ovary glabrous ; style short, laciniate. Capsules very small, 

 smooth. Seeds smooth, about ^ lin. long. 



Mozamb. Bistr. (ierman East Africa: Kitanda, Bu.<is€,23Q9l 



Allied to A. ciliafa, Korsk., difPering in the more slender inflorescences b.-ing 

 entirely or nearly entirely unisexual, and by the smaller female bracts with shorter 

 teeth. 



32. Acalypha glomerata, Hutchinson. Add : 



Extends also to South-east Africa. 



1. Mareya brevipes. Pax. Add : Mildbr. Wiss. Deutsch Zentr - 

 Afr. Exped. ii. 459. 



1. Lepidoturus laxiflorus, Berith. Add : Mildbr. Wiss. Deutsch. 

 Zentr.-Afr. Exped. ii. 455. 



2. Alchornea floribunda, Miill. Arg. Add : Mildbr. Wiss. 

 Deutsch. Zentr.-Afr. Exped. ii. 455. A. hirtella, Mildbr. I.e. ; not of 

 Benth. 



3. Alchornea glabrata, Frain. Add: Mildbr. Wiss. Deutsch. 

 Zentr.-Afr. Exped. ii. 455. 



6. Alchornea yambuyaensis, De Wild. Add: A. verrucosa^ 

 Mildbr. Wiss. Deutsch. Zentr.-Afr. Exped. ii. 456. 



In the description of A. yamhuyaensis (p. 918, line 20) for '' stipules " read 

 ** stipels." 



7. Alchornea Schlechteri, Fax in Engl. Jahrb. xliii. 221. Shrub, 

 dioecious, 10-12 ft. high ; twigs pubescent. Leaves petioied, thinly mem- 

 branous, oblong or obovate, acuminate, margin crenulate, ba^^e rounded, 

 4 in. long, '2~2\ in. wide, glabrous above, at first hirsute with long hairs on 

 the nerves beneath, soon glabrous except for tufts in the angles of main- 

 nerves and midrib, glands at the base on the lower side inconspicuous, 

 with two filiform stipels at the apex of the petiole on the upper side ; 

 petiole slender, puberulous, |-1 J in. long ; stipules filiforn), deciduous. 

 Spikes simple, lax ; males all lateral, 3-4 in. long, perulate at the ba.se 

 like the leaf-buds, but without leaves below the flowers ; rhaohis softly 

 pubescent ; male buds globose, 1 lin. wide, glomerate ; females few- 

 flowered, each flower solitary to its bract or reduced to a subsolitary 

 flower terminating a leafy twig. Ovary usually 3-celled, closely sottly 

 ad pressed -pubescent. Capsule normally 3-coccous, nearly glabious, 

 quite smooth, dark brown, J in, wide ; styles \-\ in. long. Seeds 

 globose, slightly 2-sulcate on the inner face, faintly verrucose on the 

 back. 



Mozamb. Distr. Portuguese East Africa: Madanda fonats, 400 ft., 

 Sivynnerton, 1537 ! 



Also extends to the soutli of tlie tropics. 



Most nearly allied to A. Engleri, Pax, and A. yambuyaensis, IV Wild., hut 

 diifers in hein^ di(jecious and in havinpr rather shorter styles. 



