Entry for ACALYPHA acrogyna Pax [family EUPHORBIACEAE] http://plants.jstor.org/flora/flota011327 http://www.jstor.org Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use, available at http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp. JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use provides, in part, that unless you have obtained prior permission, you may not download an entire issue of a journal or multiple copies of articles, and you may use content in the JSTOR archive only for your personal, non-commercial use. Please contact the contributing partner regarding any further use of this work. Partner contact information may be obtained at http://plants.jstor.org/page/about/plants/PlantsProject.jsp. Each copy of any part of a JSTOR transmission must contain the same copyright notice that appears on the screen or printed page of such transmission. JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. Page 1 of 2 Entry for ACALYPHA acrogyna Pax [family EUPHORBIACEAE] Herbarium Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K) Collection Flora of Tropical Africa Resource Type Reference Sources Entry from Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 6 Part 1, page 441 (1913) Author: (By J. G. Baker, with additions by C. H. Wright.) Names ACALYPHA acrogyna Pax [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xliii. 323. Claoxylon sp De Wild. & Th. Durand [family EUPHORBIACEAE], Reliq. Dewevr. 209. Information A shrub up to 7 ft. high; branches covered with grey bark, glabrescent; lateral flowering branchlets very short, puberulous. Leaves crowded, obovate or elliptic-lanceolate, acutely acuminate, attenuated to and obtuse at the base, 1 1/2–3 in. long, 1–1 3/4 in. broad, crenate-serrate, thinly chartaceous or membranous, glabrous except on the pubescent lateral nerves below; lateral nerves 5–6 on each side, distinctly looped and branched well within the margin, prominent on both surfaces, with tufts of hairs in their axils below; tertiary nerves very distant, freely anastomosing; petiole 1/4– 1/2 in. long, crisped-pubescent; stipules linear-subulate, keeled on the back, subcoriaceous, glabrous, 2 lin. long. Inflorescences bisexual, fasciculate at the ends of short lateral branches, 1 1/2–4 in. long, male flowers numerous in the lower, females 2–4 in the upper part; axis slender, crisped-pubescent. Male buds sparingly puberulous. Female bracts small, 1-flowered. Sepals 5, ovate-lanceolate, ciliate in the upper part. Ovary conspicuously echinate; styles 3, much laciniate, glabrous. Capsule echinate, about 2 1/2 lin. in diam. Seeds rounded, smooth. Distribution South Central Belgian Congo: Fort Beni, Mildbraed, 2334! 2341! 2455! forest of N'Kembo, Dewèvre, 441! http://plants.jstor.org/flora/flota011327 Page 2 of 2.