976 CXXII. EUPHORBIACE& (PRAIN). [Tragia. 
recurved and closely applied to the swollen style-column, at length 
retracted within the mouth of the columnar tube. Capsule 3-coccous, 
rather sparingly pilose, 4 in. across; cocci subglobose. Seeds globose, 
dark brown with grey blotches. 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Ukinga; Mount Kirunde, 6500 ft., 
Goetze, 907! British Central Africa: Nyasaland ; Masuku Plateau, 6500-7000 ft., 
Whyte, 269! 
A very distinct species with a large style resembling that of Tragia 
(Sphaerostylis) tulasneana, from Madagascar. 
11. T. cannabina, Linn. f. Suppl. 415. Stems suberect or 
rambling, not truly twining or only slightly so at the tips, 2-5 ft. 
high, with spreading branches, glabrous or sometimes hispid upwards 
and beset with white stinging hairs. Leaves distinctly petioled, 
membranous, usually deeply 3-partite, sometimes 5-partite at the base, 
occasionally without lateral lobes, central lobe oblong, 24 in. long, j in. 
wide, lateral lobes lanceolate, subacute or obtuse, 3-14 in. long, { in. 
wide, unlobed leaves sometimes 1 in. wide, margin throughout coarsely 
gashed and lobed, the lobules triangular or oblong, base cuneate, 
glabrous above, bristly on the nerves beneath; petiole 4-3 in. long, 
bristly and hispid ; stipules lanceolate, suberect or reflexed, membranous, 
margin setose, 14 lin. long. Racemes androgynous, lateral leaf-opposed, 
1-2 in. long, on naked more or less bristly peduncles 2-3 in. long, with 
numerous rather lax male flowers above and 2-3 basal female flowers ; 
pedicels in both sexes glabrous, solitary to and shorter than their 
bracts; bracts lanceolate, acuminate, margin setose, males 1 lin., 
females 14 lin. long. Male sepals 3, ovate, glabrous. Stamens 3; 
filaments as long as the anthers. Female calyx-segments 6, densely 
setose when young with white bristles, accrescent and ultimately 
coriaceous ; rhachis almost glabrous, narrowly lanceolate, } in. long, 
pectinately 4-lobulate on each side, lobules lanceolate, all about as long 
as the terminal lobule, longer than the width of the rhachis, permanently 
white setose. Ovary densely setose; styles 3, connate in their lower 
half, erect or suberect above. Capsule 3-coccous, sparingly adpressed 
setose, } in. across; cocci subglobose. Seeds globose, grey mottled with 
brown.—Juss. Euphorb. Gen. Tent. t. 15, fig. 49 B; Dalz. & Gibs. 
Bomb. Fl. 228; Cooke, Fl. Pres. Bomb. ii. 622. 7. involucrata, var. 
cannabina, Miill. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 944 ; Hook. f. FI. Brit. Ind. 
v. 465 mainly; Pax in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, vi. 184. 
Nile Land. Somaliland: Ogaden, Robecchi, 338, 390, 421; Milmil Valley, 
Riva, 283; Guelidi; on the Webi River, Revoil! Midjourten; Modie Valley, 
Revoil, 130! Sennar: Meshra Zeraf, Broun, 1507! Nuer: Shambe on the Bahr- 
el-Jebel, Broun, 1613!, Nasser, Brown, 1726! Bari country; Lado on the Nile, 
Dawe, 887! British East Africa: Eastern shore of Lake Baringo, 3300 ft., 
Gregory ! 
Also in India, 
Var. intermedia, Prain. Stems erect or suberect, 2-3 ft. high, eer 
pubescent upwards, beset with white stinging hairs. Leaves distinctly petio ‘ 
membranons, usually the lowest deeply 3-partite, but the uppermost sometimes % 
