2i2 NAttjRAL HiS'rORTt OF PLANTS. 



> 69. Acalypha L.i — Flowers monceoious or dioecious, apetalous; 

 male calyx usually 4-partite, valvate. Stamens oo, sometimes 

 subdefinite (8-12) inserted on convex receptacle; filaments free 

 more or less compressed, attenuate at apex ; anthers inserted below 

 apex ; cells often free descendent elongated- vermiform or subcla- 

 vate. Eemale calyx 3-5-partite, subclavate or slightly imbri- 

 cate. Germen 3-locular; cells (2 anterior) 1-ovulate; style 

 branches 3, simple, rarely subentire, oftener 2-seriate long few 

 or oo-Iacinuliferous within. Capsules often shortly echinate or 

 rugose; seed glabrous, punctulate or tuberculate, more or less 

 (sometimes very little arillate at micropyle). — Herbs undershrubs 

 or shrubs ; leaves alternate usually petiolate ; petiole 2-stipulate at 

 base, often glanduliferous at apex ; limb penninerved or 3-7 -nerved 

 at base, usually variously dentate, sometimes pellucid-punctulate ; 

 male flowers ^ usually axillary spicate ; spikes amentiform glomeru- 

 liferous, often articulate at base, deciduous ; female spicate in axile 

 bracts solitary or often cymose (2, 3), sessile or more rarely pedi- 

 cellate ; female bracts much varied in form, usually dentate, vari- 

 ously evolute and mostly after fecundation accrescent, and more or 

 less covering the fruit ^ like an involucre. {All hot regions.^) 



70. Alchornea Soland.^ — Flowers monoecious or oftener dioeci- 

 ous ; male calyx 2-4-partite, valvate. Stamens 4-8,or more usually oo. 



1 Oen. n. 1082. — J. Geii. 390. — GcMsri'i.Fruct. Linncea, xxxiv. 6; in ii'fora(1872), 25. — Benth. 

 ii. lis, t. 107.— Lamk. III. t. 78'9.— PoiB. met. Fl. Austral, vi. 131.— H. Bn. in Adansonia, i. 

 vi. 202 (pait.); Suppl. iv. 680.— Sohkuhr, 72, 266, 350 ; ii. 224 ; iii. 156 ; t. 226; vi. 317. 

 Handb. t. 311.— A. Juss. Euphorb. 45, t. 14, fig. s gx. Sw. Fl. Ind. Occ. ii. 1153.— Pom, 

 46.— Endl. ff'K. n. 5787.— H. Bn. Euphorb. Suppl. i. 286. -A. Juss. Euphorb. 42, t. 13.— 

 440 t. 20, fig. 13-19.— M. Ahg. Frodr. 799.— Endl. Gen. ix. 6796.— H. Bn. Miphorb. 445, t. 

 Bakhu, Fl. Mam-it. Sli.—Caturus L. Gen. n. 20, fig. 8-12.— M. Arg. in Linncea, xxxiv. 167 ; 

 1491.— A. Juss. loc. eit. t. 45. — Cupameni. Prodr. 899.— Ca<M?-M« Lour. Fl. CocUneh. (ed. 

 AuANS. Fam. dcs Fl. ii. 356 (part.) — Uiteria 1790), 612. — Cladodes Lour. he. cit. 574.— JTw- 

 Dennst. Malab. v. 5 (ex Endl.). — Gafonfs mesia'W. Spee.'yv.SO^. — ConeeveibmnJj.C'S.icsL. 

 Sphbkg. Si/yt. i. 362.— lyiwitachi/s Kl. in ex A. Juss. Ftiphorb. 42, t. 13, fig. 42, — Ciele- 

 L'mnaa, xix. 235. — Odoiiteilema TuBCZ. in Bull. bogi/ne Sm. in Ann. Nat. Hist. iv. 68. — Endl. 

 Mosc. (1848), 6%l.— Galyptrospatha Kl. in Pet. Gen. Suppl. ii. 88.-H. Bn. Euphorb. 416, t. 8. 

 Mossamb. Bot. 97, t. 18.— Gymnalypha Grisbb. — Schousbma Schum. et Thonn. Beshr. 449. — 

 Nov. Fl. Panam. 1, n. 10. ' Conceveiba Kl. in Erichs. Arch. (1841), 191 (nee 



'^ Generally minute ; n'.ade very small, mostly Aubl.). — Aparisthmium Endl. Q-en. n. 6792. — 



virescent; style virescent, whitish or purplish H. Bn. Euphorb. 467. — Stipellaria Bbnth. in 



conspicuous, sometimes large. Hook. Jowrn. (1854), 2. — Lepidoturus H. Bn. 



2 Sect. 2 (M. Arg.); 1. Linostackys (Kl.); JEm^AotJ. 448 (nee Boj.). — Lauremberyia K. Bn. 

 2. Buacalypha (M. Arg. Prodr. 803). op. eit. 451. — OrJllea'E.. Bn. op. cit. 452. — Wetria 



* Spec, ad 210. Kumph. Herb. Amboin. iv. t. H. Bn. op. cit. 409. — Palissya H. Bn. op. cit. 



37 {Cauda felis) .—J A.CQ,. Sort. Sc/icenbr. t. 243, 602. (neo Endl.). — Bleckeria Mia. Fl. Ind.-Bat. 



246 • Ic. Bar. t. 620.— Cav. Icon. t. 668-570. — Suppl. 407. — Fseudotrewia Miq. loc. cit. 462. 

 H. B. K. Nov. Oen. et Spec. ii. 92.— M. Arg. in 



