Claoxylon.| EUPHORBIACER. 397 
membranous, above rough from short, stiff, often stellate hairs, 
beneath shortly stellate-pubescent, the nerves and transverse veina- 
tion strong and prominent ; female flowers shortly pedicelled, 
forming short stellate-tomentose racemes in the axils of the leaves ; 
calyx stellate-tomentose, the female one unequally 2-sepalled ; 
ovary densely covered with soft stellate-hispid prickles ; capsules on 
a puberulous strong peduncle 2-3 lin. long, the size of a small 
cherry, 3- or rarely 2- or 4-coccous and -lobed, white, fleshy-coria- 
ceous, crowned by the thick papillose-fringed styles ; seeds almost 
globular-ovoid, smvoth, the size of a small pea, enveloped in a 
nearly complete snow-white sappy arillus. 
Has.—Rare in the tropical forests and along choungs in the upper mixed 
forests of the Pegu Yomah.—Fr. Jan.—s.—SS.=Si8. 
ACALYPHA, L. 
‘tacos Bs fruticosa, Forsk.—A leaf-shedding branched shrub, 4-8 ft. 
high, all softer parts greyish puberulous ; leaves ovate-oblong to 
ovate, more or less rounded or acute and 3- or almost 5-nerved at 
€ base, on a slender glabrescent petiole $ to an in. long, acumi- 
nate to acute or rarely blunt while young, 1-2 in. long, membran- 
ous, roughish above, softly puberulous beneath ; flowers minute, 
Sreenish, clustered, sessile, forming slender, puberulous, sessile 
turning broadly ovate, acute, concave, minutely greyish pubescent 
outside ; ovary appressed greyish pubescent, the styles simple, 
many-cleft, about 2-3 times longer than the floral bracts. 
