302 FLOKA OF JAMAICA Acalypha 



wood, generally on same branch, the male usually on youngest wood, 

 and sometimes as long as 17 cm. 1. ; male flowers dense, female several to 

 20 at intervals. Male Ixracteoles elliptical-oblong. Female bracts enclosing 

 two flowers, white tinged (in dried plants) with purplish-red, about 2 mm. 1., 

 increasing to 6 mm. in fruit, divided to below the middle into lanceolate- 

 iinear lobes, the middle one longest. Ovary puberulous. Styles (in dried 

 plants) purplish, pinnate with many branches. Capsule about 3 mm. 1., 

 puberulous. . . 



8. A. ppuinosa Urh. Symh. Ant. v. 388 (1908) ; shrub, glabrous ; 

 leaves crenate-serrulate ; inflorescence unisexual, female spike 

 axillary ; fruiting bracts many, 8 mm. 1., cleft about two-thirds 

 of length into 4-7 oblong obtuse lobes. 



Woods near Resource, Purdic ! near Troy, 2000 ft. ; Lapland, neat 

 Catadupa, 2000 ft. ; Harris ! Fl. Jam. 8738, 9175. 



Shr7ib 8 ft. high, monoecious; glabrous. Leaves 9-15 (7-20) cm. 1., 

 2-5 cm. br., narrowly elliptical, apex usually acuminate, base subcordate 

 or obtuse, crenate-serrulate, pinnately nerved, papery; petiole "5-5 cm. L, 

 glandular at the apex on the upper side ; stipules ovate-lanceolato, reddish, 

 somewhat thick, 5-7 mm. 1. Spikes unisexual, male on branches more 

 than one year old, female on branches less than one year old, male 3-10 (or 

 more) cm. 1., slender, female, 3-5 cm. 1. Female bracts 1-flowered, 2-4 mm. 1., 

 increasing in fruit to 8 mm. 1. Capsule about 2-5 mm. 1., hirtellous. 



9. A. jamaieensis Britton in Bull. Torr. Bot. Cluh xxxix. 7 

 (1912); shrub, with twigs, petioles, and inflorescence densely 

 pubescent ; leaves strongly serrate ; inflorescence unisexual, 

 female spike axillary ; fruiting bracts many, 5 mm. 1., divided 

 about halfway into 5-9 oblong-ovate lobes. 



Masson\ Furdiel Leicesterfield, Clarendon, 1800 ft. ; Toms Cave Wood, 

 Clarendon, 2500 ft.; Harris] Fl. Jam. 10,842, 10,856. 



Stiritb 6-8 ft. high, moncecious. Leaves variable in size, 5-18 cm. 1., 

 2-5" 5 cm.br., elliptical-lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, with a long slender 

 acuminate point, base subcordate, nerves pinnate with 1 or 2 on each side 

 from the base, membranous, sparingly pubescent on both sides, denser on 

 nerves beneath, or glabrate above ; petiole 1-4 cm. 1. ; stipules minute, 

 soon falling. Spikes: male and female on same or different branches, 

 male to 10 cm. 1. (with peduncle 2 cm. 1.), female 5-10 cm. 1. (with peduncle 

 1-5-5 cm. 1.). Male bracts linear, somewhat flat, hirtellous, 2-3 mm. 1. 

 Female bracts hirtellous on margin and on the .prominent ribs, generally 

 enclosing two flowers, one developing before the other. Capsule about 

 1 mm. 1., hirtellous. 



10. A. elliptiea Sic. Prodr. 99 (1788) ct Fl. Ind. Occ. 1168; 

 shrub or tree, with twigs, petioles, and inflorescence puberulous 

 or glabrous ; leaves crenate-serrate ; inflorescence axillary, uni- 

 sexual, male and female on the same or different branches ; 

 fruiting bracts many, to 3 or 4 mm. 1., transversely elliptical, 

 somewhat corclate at base, margin uneven, shortly toothed. — 

 Griseh. op. cit. 47 : Muell. Arg. torn. cit. 812 ; Urh. Symh. Ant. v. 

 388. A. hernandifolia Sw. Prod. 99 (1788) & Fl. Ind. Occ. 1162 ; 

 Griseh. loc. cit. ; Muell. Arg. torn. cit. 808 ; Urh. loc. eif. A. villosa 



