dealypha.} EUPHORBIACES. 947 
linear, ciliate scales; filaments free; anthers erect; cells connate 
at base only but not confluent, free above and erect; dehiscence 
extrorse. Pistillode 0. ¢ Calyx as in the males. Petals 0. 
Disk 0 or of 8 petal-like, hypogynous souks alternate with the 
i _ earpels. Carpels connate in a 3-celled ovary; ovules solitary in 
each cell; styles short, rarely long, entire, fringed, spreading. 
Fruit a capsule of three 2-valy cocci, or indehiscent and cori- 
aceous. Seeds subglobose, with or without an arillus; testa 
crustaceous ; ae fleshy ; seeds broad, flat 
1886. XYLON MERcURIALIS Thwaites ; F. B. I v. 42. Tragia 
leat By betes 
ehar. 
An annual herb, © 
839. Acalypha Linn. 
Shrubs or herbs; leaves ates toothed or crenate, rarely 
entire, penninerved or 3-5-nerv Flowers Fir Se minute, 
axillary or terminal racemes, or ie females 1-2 in a peduncled, 
solitary bract, or casually dicecious; perianth simple ; males with- 
out bracts, females often at the base of large, accrescent, leafy 
bracts, low on the male spikes or on separate spikes. ¢ Sepals 
4, valvate, more or less connate in a membranous calyx. Petals 0. 
Disk 0. Stamens usually 8, sometimes numerous, on a convex 
receptacle; filaments short, free; anther-cells distinct, divaricate, 
often at length twisted or flexuous. Pistillode 0. ¢ Sepals 3-4, 
minute, imbricate. Petals 0. Disk 0. Carpels connate In a 
3-celled ovary ; ovules salons in each cell; styles filiform, often 
very long and laciniate or fimbriate. Fruit a small capsule of 3 
minute, 2- valved, crustaceous cocci. Seeds cap age testa 
crustaceous ; albumen fleshy ; cotyledons broad, 
Bracts rather shorter than capsules, 1-flowered, toothed .........++. fallax. 
Bracts longer than capsules : : 
Bracts distant, broad, 3-5- dicen truncate, crenate ........... indica 
Bracts crowded, 1-2-flo wered, with many nerves ending 1 in — 
Subulate, hispid teeth ciliat 
1887. AcatypHa FALLAx Muell.-Arg.; F. B. I. v. 416. 
C. Bengal. 
An annual weed, 6-18 in. high, recently introduced to 
our area, but now quite common, especially near Cal- 
cutta. 
