Acalypha
This genus comprises about 220 species, broadly dispersed over the warm regions, a few being extra-tropical American. Leaves alternate, often ovate, more or less toothed, three to five-nerved or penniveined. To the species described on p. 7, Vol. I., the following should now be added: A. obovata (obovate). l. obovate, green with creamy edges when young, changing with age to olive-green with pink margins, and finally having a bronzy centre, and broad, rosy-crimson margins. Polynesia, 1884. An ornamental foliage plant.