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Phyllanthus brasiliensis (Aubl.). (Conxamdé brasiliensis Aubl. 
Pl. Gui. 2: 927. pl. 324.—Phyllanthus Conami Swartz, Prodr. 
Veg. Ind. Occ. 288.) ‘+A shrub, 10-12 ft. high, growing in 
gravelly, rather wet soil near the river, the flowers green; 
scarce.” Coripata, March 14, 1894. (Vo. 2086 
PHYLLANTHUS LATHYROIDES H.B.K. Nov. Gen. 2: 110. (Vo, 
1778.) 
Croton anpinus Muell.-Arg. Linnaea 34: 126. 1865. (WVos. 
1927 and 7929.) The same as Mandon 1075. 
CroTon GLanpuLosus L. Syst. ed. 10. 1275. ‘*Grows 1 to 2 ft. 
high in ordinary soil, the flowers greenish-white.” Coripata, 
March 28, 1894. (Vo. 2706.) 
CroTon Lopatus L. Sp. Pl. roos. ‘In dry clay, on hillsides; 
scarce.” Coripata, April 18, 1894. (Wo. 2730.) 
Croton SELLowm Baill. Adansonia 4: 304. 1864. (Vo. 2657.) 
AcaLyPHa Lecu eri Britton; Rusby, Bull. ae Club 28: 304. 
1gor. (Vo. 2670.) The same as Rusby 74 
ACALYPHA HIBISCIFOLIA Britton; Rusby, Mom. i orey Club 4: 
257. 
Acalypha eugenifolia sp. nov. 
Rather densely pilose with soft, white, age! reflexed hairs; a 
shrub, the branchlets rather numerous, short, very leafy; stipules 
purple, 2-3 mm. long, narrowly subulate or aristiform from a 
broad base, strongly 1-ribbed; petioles o.5-4 cm. long, stoutish ; 
blades 0.5-1.25 dm. long, 1.5-3 cm. broad, lanceolate, obtus- 
ish at the base, long-acuminate or attenuate at the apex, finel 
serrate, thin, rather pale, nearly smooth above, long-pilose under- 
neath, where the slender venation is slightly prominent, the 
secondaries about 10 pairs, very sly ascending; staminate 
spikes numerous, 3-6 cm. ae -3 mm. broad; pistillate spikes 
terminal, solitary, 0.5-1.5 dm. long, in flower I'cm., in fruit 2 cm. 
broad; scales of the pistillate spikes mostly 5-cleft, the divisions 
rea attenuate, 4—5 times the length of the body, very strongly 
ribbed, pilose and ciliate ; ovary globoidal, 3 -lobed, green, densely 
white- pilo se, I mm. long; styles 4-5 long, bright- = 
long-pilose toward the base, the divisions fi filiform, tapering. ( 
2368. 
«A shrub about 8 ft. high, with red flowers, abundant in dry 
sand and gravel.” Near Coroico, August 3, 1894. 
Acalypha foliosa sp. nov. 
Finely strigose; stems stout, coarsely angled; stipules 1.25 cm. 
long, 3 mm. broad at the base, from which they taper regularly to 
