251 
strongly revolute; petals(?); disk annular, obscurely lobed, bear- 
ing subulate pilose glands in the sinuses ` ovary long and densely. 
stellate-hairy, the styles bifid to below the middle. Er 
Yungas, 1890 (375). Near C. cettidifolius Baill. 
Croton pungens Jacq. Ic. Pl. Rar. 3: 19.7. 622 (?) Vungas, 1890 
(278). ER 
Acalypha macrostachya Jacq. Hort. Schoenb. 2: 63. 4 245 (Di 
Yungas, 1890 217). | 
Acalypha diversifolia Jacq. Hort. Schoenb. 2: 63. t. 244. Yungas, 
1890 (377). 
ACALYPHA HIBISCIFOLIA Britton, sp. n. 
2-2.5 mm. long; seed 1.5 mm. long, 1 mm. broad, ovoid, slightly 
compressed, light brown with a dark broadly circular plane 
caruncle. ; 
Yungas, 1890 (242) — Rusby's 1275, the type. 
ACALYPHA CAPILLARIS Sp. D. ©: > 
Tall shrub, the branches slender, ascending, elongated, reddish-* 
gray, terete, minutely puberulent ; petioles 2-6 cm. long, slender, 
the stipules subulate, attenuate, erect, rigid, 6 mm. long, the blades 
10-15 cm. long, 3-7 cm. broad, the base rounded, the apex long- 
acuminate, sharply serrate, glabrous both sides, scrobiculate and 
pilose in the axils underneath, much reticulate with dark veins, the 
primary about 8 pairs, thin and membranaceous ; staminate spikes 
filiform, elongated, the persistent bracts dark, thick, rigid, pilose, 
triangular, acuminate, equalling the flowers; glomerules about 
4-flowered, the flowers dark-brown, very small, the stamens 8, the | 
pedicels at length elongated, pilose ; pistillate spikes terminal, soli- 
tary, simple, not more than I cm. broad; bracts very broad, en- 
closing a single flower, ribbed, the ribs terminating in long unequal 
