EURPHOBIACEAE. — ACALYPHA 523 



rotundata, apice subsonsim acute acuminata acumine mucronato 0.5-1 cm. longo 

 medio 1-2 mm. lato, i^lerumquc 3.5-8 cm. longa et 1.5-3 cm. lata (in fructu inter- 

 dum 10-13 cm. longa et usque ad 4 cm. lata), tenuiter chartacea, supra costa puree 

 puberula excepta glabra, infra solum in costa et nervis lateralibus breviter setuloso- 

 pubescentia; costa infra conspicua; nervi laterales utrinsecus 5-8, supra distincti, 

 infra prominentes, intra marginem conjuncti, in axillis lanato-pubcscentes; venae 

 plerumque conspicuae et laxae; petioli 0.4-1 cm. longi, hirsuti; stipulae mox deci- 

 duae, lineari-subulatae, acutae, 4-5 mm. longae, setuloso-pubcscentes. Inflorcs- 

 centiae ^ terminales, 3-4-ramosae, ramis pergracilibus 1.5-2 cm. longis: rhachis 

 parce pubcscens; bracteae stipulis similes, sed parum breviores; bracteolae mi- 

 nutae, subulato-lanceolatae, glabrae; flores ^ breviter pedicellati, pediccllis pa- 

 tulis dcmum vix 1 mm. longis glabris; sepala 4, late transverse oblonga, 0.35 mm. 

 longa, 0.75 mm. lata, glabra; stamina 4; discus carnosus, glaber. Flores 9 i^on 

 visi. Infructescentiae 9 pergraciles, 3-ramosae, 6-8 cm. longae; rhachis angularis, 

 parce puberula v. fere glabra; pedicelli fructiferi patuli v. leviter reflexi, 3-4 mm. 

 longi, parce puberuli; sepala triangularia, brevia, glabra; discus crassus, glaber. 

 Fructus juniores oblique ellipsoidei, tetragoni, glabri, stylis brevissimis bilobis 

 coronati. 



Western Szech'uan: Kiating, July 1903 (Veitch Exped. No. 4449; shrub 

 1 m. tall, (J flowers); November 1903 (Veitch Exped. No. 4058; shrub 4 m. tall, 

 young fruits); Mt. Omei, June 1904 (Veitch Exped. No. 4480; bush 3 m. tall; 

 ^ flowers). 



This species is related to A. japonicum Siebold & Zuccarini, but differs from 

 it chiefly in its oblong leaves more rounded at the base and hairy on the midrib 

 and lateral nerves below, and in its strictly terminal inflorescence. 



CROTON L. 



Croton Tiglium Linnaeus, Spec. 1004 (1753). — Miiller Arg. in De Candolle, 

 Prodr. XV. pt. 2, 600 (1866). — Hooker f., Fl. Brit. Ind. V. 393 (1887). — Hems- 

 lev in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXVI. 435 (1894). — Lcveille, Fl. Kouy-Tcheou, 160 

 (1914). 



Western China: Fu-chou, Yangtsze banks, cultivated, May 1903 (Veitch Ex- 

 ped. No. 4447; tree 5 m. high). 



This small tree is commonly cultivated in Szech'uan in the vicinity of the Yang- 

 tsze River. Its leaves are mostly retained through the winter and become highly 

 colored before they fall in the spring. Colloquially it is known as the Pa-tou tree 

 and its seeds are used medicinally. E. H. W. 



ACALYPHA L. 



Acalypha acmophylla Hemsley in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXVI. 436 (1894). 

 Western Hupeh: Ichang gorge, cliffs, April 1907 (No. 1987; 

 shrub about 1 m. high). 



Our specimen is an exact match of Henry's Nos. 1188 and 3824 mentioned in a 

 note by Hemsley as ])robably being the same as his A. acmophijlla. 1 think ho is 

 right in this; in his type specimens the inflorescences are solitary in the leaf axils, 

 but they are borne on fully grown lateral shoots, whilst in Henry's s]iecimens and 

 in ours the inflorescence is borne on very young branches just emerging from the 



