(101 ) 
“A shrub, 4 or 5 ft. high; San Juan, 3200 ft., March 22, 1902” 
(No. 210) 
Species near C. echioides. 
Acalypha alchorneoides sp. nov. 
neu except for a sparse and minute pubescence on the 
y young portions. Branchlets elongated, slender, deep-red. 
de about 6 mm. long, tapering regularly from a broad, partly 
clasping base. Petioles slender, 6-12 mm. long; blades 6-12 cm. 
long, 2. SS cm. broad, lanceolate with rounded base and long- 
acuminate summit, finely crenate, thin, deep-green, the secondaries 
6-8 on ade. strongly upcurved and connected by the straight 
pilose. Mature fruit rough-pilose, 2-3 mm. broad and a little 
persistent calyx lobes narrowly triangulate, acutish, with broad 
sinuses, closely appressed to the capsule and mostly a little more 
than half its length. 
“A slender shrub. San Buena Ventura, 1400 ft. alt., Nov. 12, 
1901” (No. 674). 
Acalypha Williamsii sp. nov. 
Leaves and inflorescence minutely puberulent; branches elon- 
gated, emiee angled, reddish; stipules 8 mm. long, ovate, acumi- 
. broad, ovate, sub-cordate, abruptly short-acuminate, crenate- 
serrate, very thin, 5-costate, with about 10 additional pairs of 
cealed by them 
“A stout bush, 15 ft. high, San Buena Ventura, 1500 ft., Nov. 
20, 1901”’ (No. 656). 
The same as Rusby’s 1269, heretofore referred doubtfully to 
A. macrostachya Jacq. Also collected by Burchell. Very near 
J. D. Smith's 5487. 
