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NATURAL HISTUKY OF PLANTS. 



69. Acalypha L.' — Flowers monoecious or dioecious, apetalous; 

 male calyx usually 4-partite, valvate. Stamens co, sometimes 

 subdefiuitc (S-12) inserted on convex receptacle; filaments free 

 more or less compressed, attenuate at apex ; anthers inserted below 

 apex ; cells often free descendent elongated-vermiform or subcla- 

 vate. Female calyx 3-5-partite, subclavate or sliglitly imbri- 

 cate. Germen 3-locular; cells (2 anterior) 1-ovulate; style 

 branches 3, simple, rarely subentire, oftener 2-seriate long few 

 or cc-jacinuliterous within. Capsules often shortly cchinate or 

 rugose ; seed glabrovis, punctulate or tuberculate, more or less 

 (sometimes very little arillate at micropyle). — Herbs undershrubs 

 or shrubs ; leaves alternate usually petiolate ; petiole 2-stipidatc at 

 base, often glanduliferous at apex ; limb peuuinerved or 3-7-nerved 

 at b;i8o, usually variously dentate, sometimes pellucid-punctulate ; 

 male flowers^ usually axillary spicate; spikes amentiform glomeru- 

 liferous, often articulate at base, deciduous ; female spicate in axile 

 bracts solitary or often cymose (2, 3), sessile or more rarely pedi- 

 cellate ; female bracts much varied in form, usually dentate, vari- 

 ously evolute and mostly after fecundation accrescent, and more or 

 less covering the fruit ^ like an involucre. {All hot regions.'^) 



7U. Alchornea Soland.^— Flowers monoecious or oftener dioeci- 

 ous ; male calyx 2-4-partite, valvate. Stamens 4-8, or more usually cc, 



1 Geii. n. 1082.— J. Gcii. SflO.— G;ertn. Frvct. 

 ii. 115, t. 107.— Lamk. hi. t. 789.— Pom. Diet. 

 vi. 202 (part.) ; Suppl. iv. 680. — Schkuhk, 

 Haiidb. t. 311.— A. Juss. Eiiphorb. 45, t. 14, fig. 

 46.— Endl. G'». n. 5787.— H. Bn. Jiuphorb. 

 440 t. 20, fig. 13-19.— M. Akg. Piodr. 799.— 

 Baki:!i, F1. Manrit. 'ili.—Caturus L. Gcti. n. 

 1491. — A. Juss. loc. cit. t. 45. — Cv.pameni. 

 Adaxs. Film, lies PI. ii. 356 (part.) — listeria 

 Dennst. Maliib. v. 5 (ex Eniil.). — Oalunis 

 Si'iiE.NG. iV/.»/. i. 362. — Lyiiiii.liichys Kl. in 

 Limiim, xix. 235. — OdiuiUiUiiia Tukcz. in Bull. 

 Mosc. (1848), 587. — Calyptrospathu Kl. in Fct. 

 Mossamb. Bui. 97, t. \S.— Giimiialypha Gm»s\i. 

 Koi: Fl. Piiiiam. 1. n. 10. 



^ Generally minute ; made very small, mostly 

 virescent; style vireseent, whitish or purplish 

 conspieuous, sometimes large. 



^ Sect. 2 (M. Aug.); 1. Liiiiisttichtis (Ki,.); 

 2. Euacali/pha (M. Aug. Prodr. 803). 



'' Si)ee. ad 210. Ki'MPii. Uerb. Amboin- iv. t. 

 37 {CuKiiit /fWs).— Jacq. Jiort. Sclifenlir. t. 243, 

 246 ; Ic. Par. t. 620.— Cav. Jcuii. t. 568-570.— 

 H. B. K. Nov. Oeii. el Spec. ii. 92. — M. Akg. in 



LiiDiO'a, xxxiv. 6; in Flora (1872), 25. — Benth. 

 Fl. Austrul. vi. 131. — H. Bn. in Adansoiiia, i. 

 72, 266, 360 ; ii. 224 ; iii. 156 ; v. 226 ; vi. 317. 

 * Ex. Sw. Fl. Iiid. Oec. ii. 1153.— PoiR. 

 Sitppl. i. 286. -A. Juss. Euphorb. 42, t. 13.— 

 Ekul. Gen. n. 5796.— H. Bn. Euplwrl. 445, t. 

 20, fig. 8-12. — M. Arg. in Liimiva, xxxiv. 167 ; 

 Prodr. 899. — Caturu.i liOUR. Fl. Coclnnch. (ed. 

 1790), 612. — Cludodes Lour. loc. cit. o'li.—Her- 

 iiiesia W. Spec. iv. 809. — Coiiceveibum L. C. Rich. 

 ex A. Juss. Euphorb. 42, t. 13, fig. 42, — Ca;le- 

 bngijjir Sm. in Ann. Nut. Hist. iv. 68. — ExDL. 

 Gin. Suppl. ii. 88. -H. Bn. Euphorb. 416, t. 8. 

 — Sehiiusbcea Schum. et Tho.vn. Bcslcr. 449. — 

 Conctveiba Kl. in Erichs. Arch. (1841), 191 (nee 

 AuKL.). — Aparisthmium Endl. Qen. n. 5792. — 

 H. B.N. Euphorb. 467. — Stipcllaria Benth. in 

 Hook. Juiirn. (1854), 2. — Lepidoturus H. Bn. 

 Euphorb. 448 (nec Boj.).- — Lauremhergia H. Bn. 

 op. cit. i5\.—0rfilea H. Bn. op. cit. 452.— Wetria 

 H. Bn. oji. cit. 409. — Palissya H. Bn. op. cit. 

 502. (nec Y,}<UL.).—Blcckcria Mi«. Fl. lud.-Bal. 

 Supyil. 407. — Psenttotreu-iii MiQ. loc. cit. 462. 



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