Tragia. | CXXII. EUPHORBIACEE (PRAIN). 975 
entire or sometimes denticulate, softly and patently pilose; female 
bracts subreniform, cordate, not lobed, their margin closely and sharply 
serrate ; bracteoles oblong, entire, softly pilose. Male sepals 3, wide- 
ovate, softly pilose externally. Stamens 3; filaments short. Female 
calyx-segments 6, ovate-lanceolate, membranous, at length accrescent 
but hardly coriaceous, 5 lin. long, pinnately 8-10-lobulate on each side, 
_ lateral lobules and rhachis very densely softly woolly with long hairs, 
terminal laminula narrowly ovate, almost glabrous, not much larger 
than the small lateral lobules. Ovary densely adpressed-setose ; styles 
3, pubescent, united throughout in a narrowly infundibuliform tube, 
puberulous externally ; stigmas free, suberect or very slightly recurved. 
Capsule 3-coccous, rather densely setose, } in. across; cocci subglobose. 
Seeds globose, dark brown with grey blotches.—Baill. Adansonia, 
ii, 162; Miill. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 942. 7. involucrata, Jacq, 
ex E. Meyer in Drége, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 226; Baill. Etude Gén. 
Euphorb. 461; not of Linn. 7. mitis, var. oblongifolia, Miill. Arg. in 
Flora, 1864, 435, and in DC, Prodr. xv. ii.942. 7. ambigua, S. Moore, 
and 7’. ambigua, var. urticais, 8. Moore in Journ. Linn. Soc. xl. 202-203. 
Nile Land. British East Africa: Kibwezi, Kuessner, 706! Rabai Hills, near 
Mombasa, Taylor ! 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Usambara; Kerematonto, 1700 ft., 
Engler, 3347! Rosallo Valley, Holst, 3861! Portuguese East Africa: Moramballa, 
3500 ft., Kirk! Rhodesia: Chirinda Forest, 3700-4000 ft., Swynnerton, 446! 795! 
Also in South Africa. 
A very distinct species. 
10. T. anomala, Prain in Kew Bulletin, 1912, 194. Stems long, 
slender, twining, armed with stinging hairs. Leaves distinctly petioled, 
membranous, oblong, acute, base distinctly narrow-cordate, margin 
closely crenate or dentate, 3-6 in. long, 14-2} in. wide, sparingly bristly 
setose on the nerves above, more densely setose on the nerves beneath, 
otherwise glabrous; petiole 3-14 in. long, glabrescent or glabrous; 
stipules linear-lanceolate, reflexed, 4-} in. long, very sparingly pubes- 
cent externally. Racemes lateral, slender, rather lax, 1j~14 in. long, 
with a naked slender finely puberulous peduncle 3-1 in. long, with 
several male flowers above and 1-2 basal female flowers; pedicels in 
both sexes solitary to their bracts, the male pedicels up to 4 in. long 
finely puberulous and longer than the bracts; male bracts oblong-sub- 
spathulate, obtuse or subacute, 1-2 lin. long, membranous, puberulous 
externally ; female bracts oblanceolate-oblong, acute, margin with 2-3 
lateral teeth but not lobed ; bracteoles ovate, acute, toothed like their 
bracts. Male sepals 3, wide-ovate, sparingly puberulous externally. 
Stamens 3 ; filamentsshort. Female calyx-segments 6, ovate-lanceolate, 
membranous, at length accrescent but hardly coriaceous, 5 lin. long, 
pinnately 7-9-lobulate on each side, lateral lobules and rhachis very 
densely and softly woolly with long hairs, terminal laminula narrowly 
ovate almost glabrous, not much larger than the male lateral lobules. 
Ovary densely adpressed setose ; styles 3, puberulous, united throughout 
In a wide pyriform tube, at first as large as the ovary ; the stigmas free, 
