Tragia.] CXXXV. EUPHORBIACEZ. (J. D. Hooker.) 465 
androgynous racemes, apetalous; males superior in the raceme; fem. 
few, inferior. MALE FL. Calyx globose or obovoid, valvately 3-5-partite. 
Disk 0, or obscure. Stamens 1-3, rarely many, filaments free or connate ; 
anthers ovate or oblong, cells contiguous parallel. Pistillode 0, or minute. 
Fem. FL. Sepals 6 (rarely more or fewer), imbricate, entire or pinnatifid, 
often enlarged hardening and stellately spreading in fruit. Ovary 3-celled ; 
styles united below in a column, then free spreading and entire; cells 
-ovuled. Capsule of 3 2-valved cocci, endocarp crustaceous. Seeds 
globose, estrophiolate, testa crustaceous, albumen fleshy ; cotyledons broad, 
flat—Species about 50, chiefly tropical. 
l. T. involucrata, Linn. Sp. Pl. 980; more or less pubescent hispid 
or tomentose and with scattered stinging bristles, rarely almost glabrous, 
leaves from linear-oblong to broadly ovate-cordate acuminate serrate, and from 
entire to deeply 3-fid or tripartite with irregularly serrate or subpinnatifid 
odes, racemes hispid or glabrous, fruiting sepals rigid stellately spreading 
oblong pinnatifid rarely subentire, ovary hispid, seeds mottled with a broad 
tumid chalaza. Muell Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 943. Kurz For. Fl. n. 
398; Grah. Cat. Bomb. PI. 186; Dalz. § Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 228. 
Throughout INDIA, from the Panjab and lower Himalaya of Kumaon, eastward to 
am and southward to BURMA, TRAVANCORE and CEYLON.—DISTRIB. China. 
An evergreen twiner. Leaves 1—4 in., membranous, protean in form and indu- 
mentum ; petiole long or short. Racemes 1-2 in., slender; bracts small or minute, 
ale fl. minute, shortly pedicelled ; sepals and stamens 3 ; pistillode 3-fid. Fem. fl. 
strigosely hispid, fruiting € in. diam. Style-column very variable in length. Capsule 
'n. diam., hispid or strigosely tomentose or nearly glabrous. Seeds obscurely hoary. 
—It is impossible to define the varieties of this most variable plant. The following 
are the principal forms. 
T. INVOLUCRATA PROPER ; coarsely strigosely hispid, leaves ovate or lanceolate 
acuminate coarsely toothed or serrate. Var. a. Rheediana, 8. genuina, and y. hispida, 
Muell. Lo. T, hispida, Willd. Sp. PL iv. 823.—Burm. Fl, Zeyl. 202, t. 92 ; Rheedo 
Hort. Mal. ii. t. 89 ; Wall. Cat. 7791 B, C, D. 
, ot. cordata, Muell.1.c.; leaves (often broadly) ovate-cordate coarsely serrate 
mUSpidately acuminate. T. cordata, Heyne in Wali. Cat. 7791 A. Var. montana, 
Thwaites Enum, 270, T. montana, Muell. Arg. l. c. 904. ted 
cordate, angustifolia; leaves narrowly linear- or oblong-lanceolate base contracte 
lob Var. cannabina 3 leaves all palmately 3-partite with narrow toothed or pinnatifid 
es, ar. e. intermedia and (. cannabina, Muell. Arg. l. e. T. cannabina, Lin . 
“ppl. 415; 4. Juss. Tent. Euphorb. t. 15, 49 B; Wall. Cat. 7715. T. hispida, 
erb. Russel], Croton hastatus & urens, Linn. Syst. Ed. 13, 722. 
2. T bicolor, Miguel i j 53) 23 d Plant. Hohenack. 
; el in Linnea (1853) 22, and. 
No. 1552; branches villously hirsute, leaves shortly petioled ovate.cordate 
Y Uminate serrate tomentose on both surfaces, racemes rather stout, rac 8 
ery long lanceolate, fem. sepals strigose entire, capsule tomentose and setose. 
: i 1 , . "ET ‘ . tz. 
Ns. 7gs) ama, var. bicolor, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 943 (excl. Me 
Nizenmr Hits, Wight &e.; at Conoor, alt. 5000 ft., Clarke. 
are esembles some tomentose forms of T. involucrata, but the bracts of the racemes 
fully 3 in, long, the flowers larger, the fruiting calyx much smaller, } in, diam., 
i *epals entire, hirsute within, and wanting the rigid woody midrib. It isa mon- 
^ plant, often but not always pulverously or rustily villous when dry.—] a er's 
" ‘queliana var, bicolor consists of this, and of Hohenacker’s No. 755, w hich is a 
Wve of Canara (not as Mueller supposes, the Nilghiris), and which is T involucrata. 
