exxvm. euphqrbiacEjE. 
Claoxylon.] 
273 
Leaves oblong acuminate, base very shortly narrowed, entire 
rather thick minutely hairy; nerves 9 pairs ascending, midrib 
stout; 10 to 11 in. long, 4 in. wide; petioles 2 to 3*25 in. long, 
stout. Racemes 1 in. long (not fully developed). Stamens 60 to 
70, filaments short; anthers long for the genus. Receptacle 
glabrous. Hab. Perak, Larut at 2000 to 2500 ft. altitude (Kunstler). 
Hooker suggests that this is a variety of C. longipetiolatum, Kurz, but the 
flowers are larger. 
38. MICROCOCCA, Benth. 
Annual herbs. Leaves alternate, herbaceous, small, ovate 
serrate; petioles long slender. Racemes slender lax. Flowers 
minute. Males; calyx globose splitting into 3. Stamens 5 to 
30; filaments as long as the anthers. No pistillode. Females; 
sepals larger, 3 or 4. Disc-glands linear alternate with carpels. 
Ovary 3-locular. Styles free laciniate. Capsule tricoccous (rarely 
2 or 4 coccous), thinly crustaceous. Seeds sub-globose. Species 10, 
African and Indian. 
(1) M. mercurialis Benth . Niger Flora, 503. Claoxylon mer- 
curialis Thw. Enum. 2.71', Hook. fil. F.B.I. v. 412. 
Herb 1 ft. or more tall with rather sparse long white hairs. 
Leaves ovate acute, base round or acute, crenate; nerves ascending 
5 pairs, nervules and reticulations visible; 1 to 1*5 in. long, *5 in. 
wide; petioles slender, -4 in. long. Racemes slender, 1-5 in. long. 
Females solitary with several males. Sepals 4 or 5 glabrous oblong. 
Stamens 3 to 10, or numerous in a globose head; anthers nearly 
sessile. Female flowers with 3 linear scales, alternating with 
carpels. Capsule *12 in. through, sparsely hairy or glabrous 3-lobed. 
Cocci globose. Seeds red-brown, deeply foveolate. Hab. Waste 
ground. Singapore, Rochor; Bajau; Pulau Ubin. Pahang, 
Pekan (Ridley). Penang, Sepoy lines and fort (Curtis). Distrib. 
Africa, India. 
39. ACALYPHA, Linn. 
Herbs, shrubs (or trees). Leaves alternate toothed or crenate 
(rarely entire). Flowers minute in axillary or terminal racemes. 
Male flowers very minute with small bracts. Females at the base 
of the male spikes or in separate spikes, often in the axil of large 
accrescent leafy bracts. No disc nor pistillode in males. Sepals 4. 
Stamens often 8 on a convex receptacle; filaments free; anther- 
cells divaricate flexuous. Ovary 3-celled; ovules 1 in a cell. 
Styles filiform long, and laciniate or fimbriate. Capsule very small 
of 3 bivalved cocci. Seeds sub-globose. Species 220, tropics and 
sub-tropics of both hemispheres. 
Herbs hairy; leaves herbaceous. 
Female flowers few in cuneiform bracts . 
Female flowers numerous; bracts minute 
Shrub glabrous; leaves sub-coriaceous 
F 1 .M.P., 3. 
(1) A. indica 
{2) A. fallax 
(3) A. siamensis 
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