Acalypha] XCVIII. EUPHORBIACE.E 587 



35. ACALYPHA, Linn. : PI. Brit. Ind. v. 414. 



Herbs, a few shrubs or trees. L. alternate, toothed orcreuate. Fl. usually 

 monoecious, minute, £ in axillary spikes, calyx splitting into 4 valvate sepals. 

 Stamens usually 8, on a convex receptacle, anther-cells divaricate, ? at the 

 base of the (J raceme or in separate racemes or heads, sometimes solitary. 

 Sepals minute 3-4, ovary 3-celled, styles filiform, generally long, branched or 

 fimbriate, often bright-coloured. Capsule of 3 small crustaceous cocci. Species 

 220, tropical and subtropical. 



1. A. fruticosa, Forsk. Western Peninsula. Pegu and Martaban (Kurz 1 ). — Ceylon. 



A shrub, young >1 ts finely hairy, 1. ovate, underside with numerous shining 



orbicular glands, blade 1-3, pet.J-1 in. Spikes hairy, J-l in. long, the upper portion 

 occupied by densely crowded minute { , while the lower portion bears isolated ? fl., 

 in the axils of broad foliaceous crenate and radially ribbed bracts, sepals 4 hyaline. 

 ciliate, ovary densely hairy, styles with numerous lateral branches. Capsules 

 tomentose J in. diam. 2. A. acmophylla, Hemsley in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxvi. 436. 

 Opper Burma. — Hupeh. Similar to 1, young shoots and young 1. clothed with long 

 fascicled hairs, 1. eglandular, long-acuminate, blade 2-4. pet. slender, 1-2 in., spikes 

 usually J, 1-2 in. long, ? fl. solitary. 3. A. alnifolia, Klein. Western Peninsula. 

 Branches and petioles softly pubescent. L. tomentose while young, more or less hairy 

 when full grown, eglandular. ovate, blade J-2, pet. J-f in., spikes i , 2-3 in. long. 9 fl. 

 in terminal heads or short spikes, bracts 1-fld., styles pinky plumose with capillary 

 branches, capsule hispid. 4. A. Dalzellii, Hook. f. Bombay. Glabrous, eglandular. I. 

 thinly membranous, OTate-lanceolate, obscurely crenate, blade 2-3, pet. capillary, i-l| 

 in. long. 9 fl. in pairs on long filiform peduncles in the axil of one large reniform 

 quite entire bract \-h in. diam. Ovary glabrous. 5. A. aispida, Burm. New Guinea. 

 Cultivated in India and the Malay Archip. A shrub. 1. broad-ovate. 9 racemes 

 drooping, scarlet, 12-18 in. long, styles deeply pinnatifid, segments linear subulate. 



3G. ALCHORNEA, Swartz ; Fl. Brit. Ind. v. 420. 



Trees or shrubs, 1. alternate, fl. dioecious or monceck us. small, apetalous, in 

 clusters on simple or panicled terminal spikes or racemes, bracts minute, disk 0. 

 cJ : calyx globose, splitting into 2-4 valvate segments. J : sepals 3-6, imbri- 

 cate. Capsule of 2-3 two-valved crustaceous cocci. Species about Hi I, tropical. 



1. A. mollis, Mucii. Arg. Outer valleys of Nepal and Sikkim, ascending to 2,000 ft. 

 Assam. Northern Circars. A -mall tree, branchlets, petioles, underside of 1. and 

 n mes finely tomentose. 1.. broad ovate, dentate, acuminate, base rounded or slightly 



1 late, blade l-H in. long and nearly as broad, pet. 3-5 in., basal n. 3. Capsule \ in. 



diam., faintly 3-lobed, smooth, densely pubescent, styles short spreading. 2. A. tili?e- 

 folia, Muell. Arg. Sikkim foot of bills, ascending to 4,000 ft. Assam. Khasi hills. 

 Tenasserim or Andaman* | Kurz I. Similar to 1 but 1. hairy along ncrvesonly, serrate, 

 often cuneate, capsules oblong, tubercled, finely pubescent, \ in. long, crowned by 

 tie- long filiform styles. 3. a. rugosa, Muell. Arg. Tenasserim.— Malay Penins. 

 china. I., pen ni nerved. 1. elliptic-lanceolate or oblanceolate, blade 4 8, pet. 1 in. long, 

 capsules glabrous tridymous, j ' in. diam. 



Coccoceras plicatum, Muell. Arg.— Syn. Hymenoeardia plicata, Kurz. Pegu, Martaban 

 and Tenasserim in swamp forests and on low ground in the Savannah forests I Ycgyin, 

 Burm.). A middle-sized dec i, | noii~ t ice. I ,y:i mil let - and petioles wiili rustj pubescence. 

 L. elongate-elliptic, abruptly acuminate, repand-crenate, blade I 6, i«'t. A-l in. lone;. 



underside densely covered with minute Orbicular scales. J tl. minute in distant 

 clusters on long slender axillary inc. ■mes. J solitary on short pedicels in racemes 



2 S in. long, ovary trigonous, 



37. MALLOTUS, Lour.: Fl. Brit Ind. v. 127. 



Shrubs or trees, 1. mostly evergreen a in I alternate, in some species upi« site. 

 petiole usually long. Fl. monoecious or dioecious, apetalous, disk usually 0. $ : 

 Calys globose or ovoid, valvately 3-5-partite, stamens 2c 3", crowded on a 

 central receptacle, anther-cells adnate to and often widely separated by the 

 thick connective. Pistillode or minute. 9: Calyx usually valvately 8-6- 

 lobed. Ovary 2— 4-celled, Btyles spreading or recurved. Capsule 2 3-celled, 

 dehiscing loculicidally, 2-3-valved. Species 71 1 80, chiefly [ndo-Malayan. 



