Acalypha EUPHOKBIACE.'E 303 



Griseb. loc. cit. (non Jacq.). A. Alexandri Urh. torn. cit. 387 (1908). 

 Specimens from Swartz of A. elliptica and A. hernandifolia are in 

 Herb. Stockholm, and of A. elliptka in Herb. Mus. Brit. Type 

 •of A. Alexandri is in Herb. Kew. 



Wright \ Brougliton\ Dancer; Shakspearl Masso7tl Swartz\ Pardie\ 

 Wilson\ Ocho Rios; Union Hill and Pleasant Valley, Moneague; Priori 

 J.P. 1132, Morris \ David's Hill; New Market, 1150 ft.; Harris \ above 

 Lacea, Mrs. E. G. Britton 2874! Fern Gully, BriUon d; Hollick 2692! 

 Fl. Jam, 5123, 9838, 9881. 



Plant 10-15 ft. high, monoecious or dioecious. Leaves 6-15 cm. 1., 

 broadly ovate, ovate, ovate-elliptical, or elliptical, more or less acuminate, 

 base rounded to subcordate, nerves pinnate with one on each side from 

 the base which often reaches halfway up the limb, and sometimes with 

 another marginal, membranous ; petiole variable in length, 1-15 cm. 1. 

 Spikes 5-16 cm. 1., 1-5-2-5 mm. in diam., female lax, with the bracts 

 sometimes 1'5 cm. apart. Female bract with one flower. Capsule 3-lobed- 

 globular, l*5-2"5 mm. 1., hispid. Seeds l-5-l"2 mm. 1., roundish-ovate- 

 ellipsoidal, blackish. 



15. ACIDOTON Sw. 



Shrub or small tree, loosely branching ; with stinging hairs 

 especially on margin of leaves, calyx, and capsule, otherwise 

 somewhat glabrous. Leaves alternate, entire, leathery, pinnate- 

 nerved. Inflorescence axillary. Flowers moncecious or dioecious, 

 without petals, solitary in the axil of a bract. Male racemes 

 shortened so that the flowers are clustered, flowers with long 

 pedicels. Female racemes longer, pendulous, flowers solitary in 

 the axil of a bract, distant along the rhachis. Disk none or not 

 conspicuous. Male flowers : Sepals 3-5, valvate, reflexed in 

 flower. Stamens numerous, indefinite, on a receptacle which is 

 raised, cup-shaped ah)ove with fleshy walls in A. urens, fleshy and 

 somewhat flat in A. microjihyllus. Rudiment of ovaiy none. 

 Female flowers : Sepals 5-6, imbricate, erect in flower. Ovary 

 3-celled ; styles united at the base into a thick column, entire 

 above or slightly 2-lobed ; ovules solitary. Capsule splitting up 

 into three 2-valved cocci. Seeds without a caruncle ; endosperm 

 fleshy ; cotyledons flat, broad. 



Species 2, one a native of Jamaica, the other of Hispaniola. 



A. urens Sio. Prodr. 84 (1788) & Fl. Ind. Occ. 954: ; Griseb. 

 Fl. Br. W. Ind. 45; Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. pt. 2, 914. 

 A. innocuus Baill. ^tud. Euphorb. 402, t. 18,/. 10, 11, Urtica 

 urens arborea &c. Gat. 38 k Hist. i. 124, t. 83,/. 1. Tragia sub- 

 fruticosa (fee. Browne Hist. Jam. 336. (Fig. 99.) 



Mountain Cowitch, Smooth leaved Cowitcrh. 



Near Angels, Sloane Herb. ii. 70 ! Wright ! Masson ! Swartz ! mts. in 

 Westmoreland ; near Hampshire, banks of Rio Cobre ; Ptcrdie 1 Angels ; 

 Moneague; Priori March I Chapelton, J.P. 1513, Hartl Jackson Town, 

 Miss A. Moulton-Barrett I near Troy, 1500-2000 ft. ; JNIocha road, Catadupa, 



