972 CXXII. EUPHORBIACE# (PRAIN). [ Tragia. 
stinging hairs. Leaves distinctly petioled, membranous, obovate-lan- 
ceolate to oblong, shortly and acutely acuminate, base truncate or very 
shallow wide-cordate, margin shortly and coarsely toothed rarely entire, 
13-2 in. long, 3-3 in. wide, rather sparingly beset with long spreading 
bristly hairs on both surfaces, usually more densely bristly on the 
nerves beneath, otherwise glabrous; petiole }—3 in. long, densely setose 
with spreading bristly hairs; stipules lanceolate, erect, }-} in. long, 
beset with bristly hairs externally. Racemes lateral, slender, rather 
dense, }-} in. long, with a naked, slender, patently hirsute peduncle 
4? in. long, with several male flowers above and 1-2 basal female 
flowers, pedicels in both sexes much shorter than and solitary to the 
bracts; male bracts obovate or spathulate, obtuse, 1-2 lin. long, pubes- 
cent ; female bracts orbicular-ovate, 3-lobed ; bracteoles obovate, obtuse. 
Male sepals 3, ovate. Stamens 3; filaments short. Female calyx-seg- 
ments 6, obovate-rhomboid, membranous, at length accrescent but 
hardly coriaceous, 3 lin. long, pubescent but not hispid ; rhachis rather 
narrow, twice as long as the rather small orbicular-oblong terminal 
laminula, and either without any lateral lobules or in some flowers the 
sepals alternately without lateral lobules and with one pair of minute 
lateral lobules immediately subtending the terminal laminula. Ovary 
rather densely pubescent ; styles 3, pubescent, united for half their 
length. Capsule 3-coccous, rather sparingly strigose, } in. across ; coccl 
subglobose. Seeds globose, dark brown with white spots.—DC. Prodr. xv. 
ni. 945, 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone: without precise locality, Smeathmann y 
Afzelius ! 
This species is described by Miiller as having the female calyx-lobes without 
lobules on their rhachis. But in the specimens of the original gathering in the 
Paris Herbarium, some of the female flowers have the calyx-lobes of one series with 
only a terminal Jaminula, while the alternating calyx-lobes of the other series have 4 
solitary pair of lateral lobules close tothe base of the laminula. Except as regards 
its female calyx, this species agrees very closely with 7. Chevalieri, Beille. 
6. 'T. Chevalieri, Beille in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, \vii. Mém. vii. 
126. Stems long, slender, twining, armed with stinging hairs. Leaves 
shortly to distinctly petioled, membranous, ovate-lanceolate to lance 
late, acute, base shortly cordate, margin entire or faintly undulate, 
23-4 in. long, 3-13 in. wide, sparingly beset with bristly white hairs 
on both surfaces; petiole }-1} in. long, densely bristly pilose ; — 
lanceolate, erect, 4-4 in. long, hispid. Racemes lateral, slender, rather 
dense, 4-3 in. long, with a naked slender pubescent peduncle ey 
long, with several male flowers above and 1-2 basal female meg 
pedicels in both sexes shorter than and solitary to their bracts ; male 
bracts oblong-subspathulate, obtuse, 1-2 lin. long, hispid, mene 
female bracts orbicular-ovate, 3-lobed ; bracteoles ovate, acute, me 
Male sepals 3, ovate, pubescent on both sides and hispid externa y- 
Stamens 3; filaments short. Female calyx-segments 6, ve 
late, membranous, 8-4 lin. long, pubescent and hispid on both ee 
the margin in the upper third entire, in the lower two-thirds with 4- 
