ACALYPHA. 
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acute pubescent ; pods unequal linear contor- 
ted, end hooked.— In West Louisiana and 
Texas, small plant, minute leaves and flowers 
in peduncled head. Figure in Autikon rare. 14. 
11. 2>. Virgata Raf. fl. lud. 444. Acacia . 
Mimosa Virgata Bar tram. Stem erect, 
branches virgate, leaves bipinnate ; pods ob- 
long on long peduncles, and lunate broad flat 
contorted. — On the shores of Florida, Herba- 
ceous perennial, flower of a pale greenish yel- 
low. Omitted by all our botanists. 
12. Schrankia Wild. Nuttal wrongly says 
only one species known ! Eaton joins to it the 
M, sensitiva of the hot houses ! the type is the 
M. quadrivalvis of Linneus, which includes se- 
veral Sp. of which I give two. — 
13. S. uncinata W. M. intsia Walter. M 
horridula Mx. Prickles hooked, branches an- 
gular, leaves bipinnate, peduncles geminate, 
pods oblong (Elliot) linear terete (Mx.) prick- 
ly — Virginia to Florida. Well described by 
Elliot, flowers purple, vernal. 
14. S. mexicana Raf. M. A-valvis L. Hous- 
ton fig. Prickles hooked, branches quadrangu- 
lar, leaves bipinnate, partial ternate, pedun- 
cles axillary, pods linear subulate 4 angular 
prickly. — In Mexico sea shores, and probably 
in Texas. 
ACALYPHA of Linneus, Cupameni of 
Adanson. Genus well known and natural, 
well described by the authors, who have adopt- 
ed the good linnean name, rather than the ma- 
labaric name of Adanson. It is a tropical and 
Asiatic Genus extending to North America. 
Persoon has 38 Sp. (Linneus had only 5) and 
there are more, since only two are admitted of 
N. A. out of the whole. I have ascertained 9 at 
