Tragia. } CXXII, EUPHORBIACE (PRAIN). 969 
Stems long, slender, twining; male flowers 
solitary to their bracts. 
+Male bracts ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, 
their margins glabrous or ciliate but 
not glandular; female bracts like 
the male bracts but somewhat larger. 
Leaves ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, 
almost glabrous; lobules of female 
calyx-segments very short. 
Leaves shallow-cordate at the base; 
bracts with finely ciliolate mar- 
gins ; filaments erect : . 43. 7. angustifolia. 
Leaves deep-cordate and minutely to 
distinctly subhastate-auriculate 
at the base; bracts with glabrous 
or very sparingly ciliolatemargins; 
filaments incurved . : . 42. 7. kirkiana, 
Leaves ovate or ovate-oblong, deep- 
cordate at the base. 
Lobules of female calyx-segments ex- 
ceeding in length the width of the 
rhachis; leaves sparingly bristly. 39. 7’. Scheffleri. 
Lobules of female calyx-segments not 
longer than the width of the 
rhachis ; leaves very bristly . 38. 7. furialis. 
++Male bracts trangular-ovate, with margin 
ciliate and finely glandular; female 
bracts with finely toothed margin; 
leaves from triangular-ovate to lanceo- 
late and from obscurely lobed to sub- 
hastate-auriculate at the base ; some- 
times almost glabrous, sometimes 
densely pubescent and bristly ; con- 
nective glandular . . . - 40. 7. adenanthera, 
1. 'T. volubilis, Zinn. Sp. Pi. ed. i. 980. Stems long, slender, 
twining, armed with stinging hairs. Leaves distinctly to long petioled, 
membranous, oblong-lanceolate or oblong, acute, base rounded, truncate 
or shallow wide-cordate, margin serrate, 2-3 in. long, }-1} in. wide, 
slightly bristly especially on the nerves on both surfaces, otherwise 
brous; petiole 4-1} in. long; stipules lanceolate, erect, 14 lin. 
long. Racemes lateral, slender, rather lax, 1-14 in. long, with a solitary 
female flower at the base on a pedicel as long as the rest of the 
raceme ; bracts lanceolate, ascending, pubescent, persisting. Male sepals 
3, ovate. Stamens 3, or casually 1-2; anthers extrorse. Female calyx- 
Segments 6, lanceolate, very slightly accrescent. Ovary setose; styles 
» glabrous, united below in a column. Capsule 3-coccous, sparingly 
Setose, J in. across ; cocci subglobose. Seeds globose, pale straw-coloured, 
Mottled with brown.—Miill. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 935; Hiern in 
Cat. Afr, Pl. Welw. i. 984; Durand & De Wild. in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. 
XXxvil.; 106; De Wild. & Durand, Relig. Dewevr. ii. 212; Th. & Hél. 
Durand, Syll. Fl. Congol. 498. 7. pedunculata, Beauv. Fl. Owar. et 
Benin, i. 90, t. 54. 
