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above blunt or rounded, or short-acuminate to a blunt tip; the margins 
undulate and revolute ; upper surfaces minutely puberulent, lower densely 
fuscous-pubescent, except on the glabrate and slightly verrucose midribs ; 
the veins above strongly impressed, beneath, with the strongly reticulat- 
ing veinlets, prominent, meeting the midrib at an angle of 45 degrees: 
racemes, with the bracts, short fuscous-pubescent, lateral in sessile fascicles 
4 or 5 em. long, in fruit densely covering the leafless branches: fruiting 
pedicels slender, villous, 4 mm. long, articulated above the middle: the 
outer fruiting calyx 3 cm. long, dividing 2 mm. above the middle into 
three spatulate-linear reticulated wings, appressed-pubescent below, the 
wings becoming glabrate toward the tips; inner calyx-lobes linear-subu- 
late, glabrous, about 4 mm. high, closely appressed to the deeply sulcate 
faces of the akene: akene narrowly ovate, acuminate, 7 mm. long, ap- 
pressed-villous ; below terete, with broad rounded angles and deeply 
suleate faces; above sharply angulate; persistent styles 1 mm. long, 
equalling the linear stigmas. — Collected on rocky hillsides, January, 
1895 (no. 511). A species in some ways suggesting R. Cumingit, 
Meissn., but apparently well distinguished from that species by its smaller 
obovate pubescent leaves, and its fascicled longer racemes. 
CaLypHA Inprcea, L. Spec. 1003. Common about shady walls and 
buildings and along stony arroyos, November, 1894 (no. 46). Perhaps 
Mtroduced ; native in Southern Asia and Tropical Africa. 
Acalypha Acapulcensis. A very slender shrub; the dark brown 
bark finely appressed-pubescent : stipules subulate, 1 mm. long, tipped by 
& pair of minute white hairs: leaves 2 to 4 cm. long, ovate or ovate- 
lanceolate, acuminate at the tip, rounded or subcuneate at the base, pin- 
nately veined, minutely pruinose above, and appressed-pubescent on the 
Veins beneath, rather coarsely crenate-dentate; on slender petioles 3 to 
b as long: spikes moneecious, axillary, pubescent; the staminate spikes 
very slender and short-peduncled (sometimes with one or two pistillate 
flowers at the base), 2 cm. or less long, 1 mm. thick, the minute flowers 
hispid ; pistillate spikes sessile, becoming 3 cm. long, with 6 to 9 scattered 
tacts: bracts 2-flowered, reniform, 4 mm. long, 5 or 6 mm. broad, with 
16 crenate teeth: the three red styles each deeply cut into 4 or 5 segments: 
Capsule hispid; seed ovate, minutely puncticulate, 1 mm. long. — In 
shady river-bo toms and depressions in the mountains, November, 1894 
(no. 190), . ; 
Lucuma Palmeri. A shrub, 1} to 3 m. high; the reddish brown 
bark of the young branches appressed-pubescent with ferruginous hairs, 
ing glabrate : leaves dark green, ferruginous-pubescent when young, 
