BOTANY. 199 
Berlandier.) Е em about a foot high, from a large oblong-conical starchy root. Leaves divided 
nearly to the base, the laciniz often linear and very narrow ; petioles 2-6 inches long. Flowers 
in terminal cymes, the alar one only fertile. Corolla purple; the segments obovate-oblong. 
Stamens monadelphous only near the base, 5 of them a little shorter than the other three; 
anthers linear, elongated: 5 glands at the base of the column. Styles short, united below; 
stigmas somewhat thickened, 2-lobed. 
JaxiPHA LOEFLINGI, H. В. K. Nov. Gen. € Sp. 1, p. 107. Jatropha Janipha, Linn. Ringgold Że; 
Barracks, lower Rio Grande, June; Schott. Stems slender, glabrous. Leaves deeply 3—5-lobed, 
the lowest lobes smallest and entire, the others (especially the middle one) more or less pan- 
duriform. Staminate flowers 8-15 in a terminal raceme; the pedicels scarcely one line long; calyx 
tubular and at length salverform ; the segments linear-oblong. Stamens 8; filaments free to the 
base; 5 of them shorter than the other; 5 small glands at the base of the filaments. Fertile 
flowers 2, at the base of the staminate raceme, their pedicels at length 6-8 lines long and reflexed. 
Calyx 5-parted to the base. Oyary globose, smooth, sometimes with 1 or 2 filaments bearing 
l-celled anthers. Styles 3 short; stigmas dilated, cristate-lobed. Ripe fruit not seen. This 
is intermediate between J. Loeflingii and J. Yuquilla, and all are probably forms of one species. 
JANIPHA MANIHOT, H. B. К. l.c.: var. ANGUSTILOBA : foliis 5-partitis, laciniis anguste lanceolato- 
linearibus integerrimis vel undulatis acutis. Santa Cruz and Tubac, Sonora, June—July ; ^ ^ 
Schott. Near Monterey, Neuvo Leon ; Gregg. N o. 1811, Wright. Plant smooth, 1—2 feet from 
a somewhat shrubby base, branching above. Leaves mostly 5-parted ; the segments 2—5 inches 
long and 13-5 lines wide, usually somewhat undulate and sometimes approaching to panduri- 
form. Stipules minute and subulate. Racemes 15-20-flowered ; the 2 lowest flowers fertile, 
the others staminate. Calyx of the staminate flowers greenish-white, broadly campanulate, 
5-lobed about half way down ; the lobes oblong. Stamens 10; filaments distinct, 5 of them 
longer than the others; 5 glands at the base of the column. Calyx of the fertile flower 5-parted 
to the base. Pistil nearly as in J. Loeflingii. Fruit 3-lobed, the carpels l-seeded. Seeds 
44 lines long, gray, mottled with dark purple. This differs from any form of J. Manihot in our 
herbarium, but it seems hardly a distinct species. 
ACALYPHA OAROLINIANA, Walt. Fl. Car. p. 238; Ell. Sk. 2, p. 645.  Ravines near Presidio del 
Norte, and near the Copper Mines, August—September ; Bigelow. Annual. Staminate spikes 
axillary, 3—4 lines long ; fertile ones terminal 2-3 inches long. Involucre cut into deep narrow 
segments, Capsuleechinate with short soft spines. Very near A. polystachya of the West Indies. 
ACALYPHA VIRGINICA, L. Sp. p. 1423 ; Torr. Fl. New York, 2, p. 113. Near the Copper Mines, 
New Mexico; Bigelow. No. ] |811 and 1818 318, Wright. Differs somewhat from the eastern plant 
in the Mii spikes and the more foliaceous id ынан bracts. 
ACALYPHA GRACILENS, Gray, Man. Bot. ed. 2, p. 390. Western Texas, Wright. More common 
southward and westward than the last. 
ACALYPHA PHLEOIDES (Cav. 2): suffruticosa ; foliis ovatis subsessilibus serratis; spicis terminali- 
bus solitariis androgyonis superne masculis inferne feemineis ; involucris 5-dentatis. A. phleoides, 
“ Cav. Ic. 6, p. 48,1. 569, f. 2;" ex Pers. Syn. 2, p.581. Hill sides, western Texas, Chihuahua, Co- 
hahuila, Sonora, &c., April—July. No. 1815 and 1816, Wright. Stem apparently prostrate 
with erect hairy branches about a foot high. Leaves an inch long, rather acute at both ends, a 
little hairy above and underneath. Stipules subulate, very small. Spikes terminating the 
branches, 1-2 inches long, the summit usually staminate and much more slender than the fertile 
