964 CXXII. EUPHORBIACE% (PRAIN). | Klaineanthus. 
cocci 2-valved, crepitant in dehiscence. Seed large, ovoid, clothed with 
a yellow fleshy aril, 5 lin. long, 4 lin. wide, 24 lin. thick; testa brown, 
shining ; albumen 2-partite; cotyledons flat, broad, leafy, 3-nerved from 
the base, 4 lin. long, 3 lin. wide. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Bipinde, Zenker, 1754! 1853! 3790! 4204! 
Lower Guinea. Gaboon; Libreville, Alaine, 277! 1352! 1941! 2015! 
2461! 2474! 2510! 3200! Sibange, Klaine, 2576! 
76. TRAGIA, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 329. 
Flowers monecious, rarely dicecious or polygamous, apetalous. Male: 
Calyx globose in bud, splitting into 3 (very rarely 4-5) valvate lobes. 
Disk 0 or obscure. Stamens normally 3, casually 1-2 or 4-5; filaments 
free; anthers ovoid or oblong, dorsifixed or nearly basifixed; cells 2, 
parallel, dehiscing longitudinally introrsely in all but one African species. 
Rudimentary ovary minute or obsolete. Female: Calyx-segments 
usually either 3 or 6, imbricate, when 6 2-seriate, very rarely 4-5, more 
or less accrescent in fruit in all but one African species, pinnately or 
palmately lobulate, very rarely entire or subentire. Ovary 3-celled ; 
ovules in each cell solitary ; styles 3, connate below in a slender column, 
very rarely connate throughout in a stout hollow column; stigmas never 
partite. Capsule breaking up into 3 2-valved cocci; cocci subglobose, 
rarely slightly angled dorsally. Seeds globose, not strophiolate; testa 
crustaceous; albumen fleshy; cotyledons broad, flat.—Herbs, very 
rarely shrubby ; stems usually long, slender and twining, rarely shorter 
and erect, or suberect and rambling upwards, usually more or less 
copiously beset with stinging bristles on the stems, leaves and female 
calyx. Leaves alternate, stipulate, usually distinctly petioled and very 
generally cordate at the base. Racemes lateral leaf-opposed or terminal 
-or both, with almost always a distinct naked peduncle, with many male 
flowers above and 1-2 (less often 3) basal female flowers; in dicecious 
species with many male flowers and with comparatively few female 
flowers respectively. Bracts persistent, the females usually similar to 
the males but larger, sometimes dissimilar. Pedicels slender, articulate 
and 2-bracteolate, usually shorter than their bracts; males generally 
solitary to their bracts or solitary for the most part but geminate 
below, less often in 3-flowered glomerules or cymules; females in the 
Tropical African species always solitary to their bracts. 
Species over 100, spread throughout the warmer regions of both hemispheres 
Basal female pedicel filiform, as long as the male part 
of the inflorescence; anthers extrorse; female = 
calyx-segments hardly accrescent in fruit . . 1, TZ. volubilis. 
Basal female pedicel or pedicels short or very short ; 
anthers’ introrse; female calyx-segments usually 
distinctly accrescent in fruit. 
Racemes I-sexual; plants diecious ; female calyx, 
where known, 6-partite, 2-seriate. 
Male flowers solitary to their bracts or only 
