Tragia. | CXXII, EUPHORBIACE# (PRAIN). 
casually geminate low down; leaves sessile or 
very shortly petioled, lanceolate; stems erect. 
Leaves densely pilose on both surfaces; male 
racemes 4 in. long or under. ; . 32. 
Leaves shortly setose on the nerves only; male 
racemes 6in.long or longer. . 33. 
Male flowers in 3-flow ered glomerules or cymules, 
Leaves sessile or very shortly petioled; stems 
erect or suberect. 
Leaves ovate, shallow-cordate; hairs on stem 
retrorse F Z x s 14. 
Leaves lanceolate, subhastate-auriculate ; 
hairs on stem ascending : o 7Bt 
Leaves distinctly to long petioled, cordate ; 
stems long, slender, twining. 
Leaves softly puberulous on nerves and 
petioles; male sepals puberulous . co 13: 
Leaves harshly retrorsely hispid on nerves 
and petioles; male flowers glabrous, twice 
as lurge asin 7. mitis. : Oe 
Racemes androgynous or, if casually 1- sexual, the 
plants polygamous. 
*Female calyx 6-partite, segments usually more or 
less distinctly 2-seriate. 
tFemale calyx-segments entire or subentire. 
Male flowers mostly in 3-flowered glomerules 
or cymules; racemes 6 in. long or longer ; 
bracts lanceolate, similar in both sexes; 
female calyx-segments little accrescent, 
not narrowed to a claw; stems short, 
erect, tufted - 2. 
Male flowers solitary to their bracts; racemes 
under 1 in. long; male bracts spathulate, 
female larger, 3-lobed; female calyx- 
segments distinctly accrescent, ungui- 
culate; stems long, slender, twining. 
Narrow claw of female calyx-segments not 
exceeding the terminal laminula. 
Leaves pubescent; laminula of calyx: 
segments wide, suborbicular, obtuse 4. 
Leaves glabrous; laminula of calyx- 
segments narrow, oblong, subacute 3. 
Narrow claw of female calyx-segments 
twice as long as the terminal Jaminula; 
laminula either always entire or alter- 
nately entire and 1-toothed at its base 5. 
ttFemale calyx-segments distinctly lobulate on 
each side. 
Styles united throughout their length in a 
hollow column ; stems slender, twining. 
Style-column narrowly funnel-shaped ; 
female bracts subreniform with a 
closely sharply toothed margin . 9. 
Style-column widely pyriform or sub- 
globose, at first as large as the ovary ; 
965 
T. Schweinfurthit. 
T. akwapimensis, 
T. Descampsii. 
T. lukafuensis. 
T. mitis. 
T. bongolana. 
T. fasciculata. 
T. spathulata. 
T. polygonoides. 
T. laminularis . 
T. natalensis. 
