NOTES. 
ON ACALYPHA INDIO A, Linn.— At the foot of the 
account of the large (220 species) Euphbrbiaceous genus Acalypha , 
Mr. Bentham (in Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. v. 3, p. 311) states; — 
‘In A. indica, Linn., speciebusque nonnullis aliis tam Americanis 
quarn Gerontogeis, spica androgyna superne mascula saepe terminatur 
flore parvo longe pedunculate heteromorpho foemineo vel subher- 
maphrodito varie obliquo vel recurvo, quoad perianthium et ovarium 
imperfecto saepius tamen fertili capsula monosperma/ 
Mueller, Argov. in DC. Prodr. v. 15, pars. 2, p. 869, says of 
A . indica : — 
‘ In speciminibus variis saepe occurrunt spicae apice monstrose 
terminatae, apice quasi abeuntes in setam filiformem, gracillimam, apice 
