213 NATURAL HIHTORY OF PLANTS. 



69. Acalypha L.^ — Flowers moucecious or dioecious, apetalous; 

 male calyx usually 4-partite, valvate. Stamens c», sometimes 

 subdefinite (8-12) 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 slightly imbri- 

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

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

 or cc-jacinuliferous within. Capsules often shortly echinate or 

 rugose; seed glabrous, j^unctulate or tuberculate, more or less 

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

 or shrubs ; leaves alternate usually petiolatc ; petiole 2-stipulatc at 

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

 at base, 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, o), 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 Sol.\nd." — Flowers monœcious or oftener diœci- 

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



1 Oeii. n. 1082.— J. Geii. 390.— G.iîrt.v. Frucf. Liniicra, xx.xiv. 6 ; in Flora (1872), 25.— Benth. 



ii. 115, t. 107.— Lamk. III. t. 789.— Pom. Diet. Fl. Aiistrul vi. 1.31.— H. Bn. in Adansoiiia, i. 



vi. 202 (part.) ; Suppl. iv. 680.— Schkuhk, 72, 266, 350 ; ii. 22i ; iii. 156 ; v. 226 ; vi. 317. 



Haudh. t. 311.— A. Juss. Enphorb. 45, t. 14, fig. * Ex. Sw. Fl. hid. Occ. ii. 1153.— PoiK. 



46. — Bnul. Oni. n. 5787.— H. Bn. Euphorb. Happl. i. 286. -A. Jus,i. Euphorb. 42, t. 13. — 



440 t. 20, fig. 13-19.— M. Ako. Piodi: 799.— Endl. Gen. n. 5796.— H. Bn. Euphorb. 445, t. 



Bakkh, Fl. Maurit. ZU.—Catunis L. Gen. n. 20, fig. 8-12.— M. Aeg. in Liiriirrn, xxxiv. 167; 



1491. — A. Juss. loc. cit. t. 45. — Cupameiii. frodr. 899. — Caturus I,cuR. Fl. Cochinch. (ed. 



XvK^s.Fum. des PI ii. 356 [yajrt.) — U.^teria 1790), 612.— Cladodes liOVR. loc. eit. ôli.Ser- 



Dennst. Malnb. t. B (ex ExnL.). — G(ihini.i iiiesia W. fSpec.iv. S09. — Cviiceveibum li. CRiCH. 



SruENG. tii/st. i. 362.— LyiioUachi/s Kl. in ex A. Juss. Euphorb. 42, t. 13, fig. 42,— Cœfe- 



Lhiiiira, xix. Tib.—Odoiiteihma TuECZ. in Bull. bnçjijue S.M. in Ami. Nut. Hii.t. iv. 68.— E.xDL. 



Mosc. (1848), Sm.— Cali/ptrospatha Kl. in Pet. Gen. Suppl. ii. 88. -H. B.v. Euphorb. 416, t. 8. 



Mnsxaiitb. B<it. 97, t. 18.— Gi/miiali/jiha Gkiseb. — Selwusbœa Schum. et Thonn. Besh: 449.— 



Nov. Fl. Puiiam. 1, n. 10. Voiicereiba Kl. in Eriehs. Arch. (1841), 191 (nee 



^ Generally minute ; trade very small, mostly Auhl.). — Aparisthmium Endl. Ge;;. n. 5792. — 



virescent; style virescent, whitish or purplish H. Bn. Euphorb. 467. — Stipellaria Benth. in 



conspicuous, sometimes large. Hook. Journ. (1854), 2. — Lepidoturm H. Bn. 



'Sect. 2 (M. Ahg.) ; 1. Liiiostachijs (Kl.); Euphorb. ii% {nec'Ëos.). — Lauremberyia'H. Bn. 



2. Eiiacali/phn (M. Aug. Prodr. 803). op. cU. ibX.—OrJilca H. Bn. <p. cit. 452.— Wetria 



■• Spec, ad 210. Rumi-h. Herb. Amboin. iv. t. H. Bn. op. cit. 409. — Palissya H. Bn. op. cit. 



37 {Cauda felis) .—J acq. Hort. Schœubr. t. 243, 502. (nee Endl.).— .BfecAecîa Mia. J"/. Ind.-Bat. 



246 ; Ic. Bar. t. 620.— Cav. Icon. t. 568-670.— Suppl. iOl .—Pmidotreiria MiQ. loc. cit. 462. 

 H. B. K. Nor. Oeii. ef Spec. ii. 92.— M. Arg. in 



