Tragia. | CXXII. EUPHORBIACEE (PRAIN). 973 
short linear-lanceolate lobules on each side. Ovary rather sparingly 
hispid : styles 3, very sparsely puberulous, united only in their lower 
fifth. Fruit not seen. 
Upper Guinea. Ivory Coast: Middle Sassandra; Gnuideko, Chevalier, 
16471! Southern Nigeria: Lagos; Ajilité, Willen, 172! Oban; Talbot, 1494! 
Most nearly related to 7. Zenkeri, Pax, but readily distinguished by the long 
hispid hairs on the peduncles, bracts and calyx-lobes, as well as on the leaves and 
petioles; in this latter regard it is identical with P. laminularis, Miill. Arg., with 
which it may ultimately be found possible to unite it. 
‘7. T. Genkeri, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xxiii, 528. Stems long, 
slender, twining, armed with stinging hairs. Leaves distinctly to long 
petioled, membranous, oblong to obovate-oblong, shortly and acutely 
acuminate, base truncate or very shallow wide-cordate, margin shortly 
to distinctly and coarsely toothed, 2-3 in. long, 3-1 in. wide, rather 
sparingly beset with long spreading bristly hairs on both surfaces, 
usually more densely bristly, especially on the nerves beneath, other- 
wise glabrous, sometimes nearly glabrous beneath ; petiole }—2 in. long, 
densely setose with spreading bristly hairs; stipules lanceolate, erect, 
zk in. long, beset with bristly hairs externally. Racemes lateral, 
slender, rather dense, }-4 in. long, with a naked, slender, pubescent 
peduncle 1-14 in. long, with numerous male flowers above and 1-2 
basal female flowers, pedicels in both sexes much shorter than and soli- 
tary to the bracts; male bracts obovate or spathulate, obtuse, 1—2 lin. 
long, finely pubescent ; female bracts orbicular-ovate 3-lobed ; bracteoles 
obovate, obtuse. Male sepals 3, ovate. Stamens 3; filaments short. 
Female calyx-segments 6, ovate-lanceolate, membranous, at length 
accrescent but hardly coriaceous, 3 lin. long, pubescent, pinnately 
3-lobed on each side, rhachis rather narrow, lateral lobes short, ter- 
minal laminula large, orbicular-oblong, membranous, nearly or quite as 
long as the rhachis. Ovary rather densely pubescent ; styles 3, pubes- 
cent, united for half their length. Capsule 3-coccous, rather sparingly 
strigose, } in. across; cocci subglobose. Seeds globose, dark brown 
with white spots—De Wild. & Durand, Contrib. Fl. Congo, i. 52 and 
Relig. Dewevr. ii. 212; Th. & Hél. Durand, Syll. Fl. Congol. 498. 
Nile Land. Uganda: Entebbe, Bagshawe, 727 ! 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Yaunde, Zerker § Staudt, 88! 
_ Lower Guinea. Gaboon: Libreville, Klaine, 743! Duparquet! Lower 
Congo: Matadi, near the Lufu River, Dewevre, 437 ! 
Nearly related to, and possibly only a variety of 7. tenuifolia, Benth. 
&. T. tenuifolia, Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 502. Stem long, 
slender, twining, armed with stinging hairs. Leaves distinctly to long 
petioled, membranous, ovate, obovate or oblong, acutely acuminate, base 
shortly to deeply cordate, margin closely and shortly or distinctly and 
bluntly toothed, 24-5 in. long, 1-24 in. wide, bristly on the nerves 
above, beneath bristly and sometimes also sparingly softly pubescent on 
the nerves, elsewhere glabrous; petiole 4-2} in. long, puberulous and 
sparingly bristly; stipules lanceolate, bristly, spreading, 1} lin. long. 
