Tragia.| CXXII, EUPHORBIACEH (PRAIN). 979 
accrescent and ultimately coriaceous ; rhachis glabrous, alternately wide- 
ovate and oblong, 4 in. long, pectinately 5-7-lobulate on each side, 
lobules lanceolate, shorter than the width of the rhachis, permanently 
white setose. Ovary densely setose; styles 3, connate for half their 
length in a slender column. Capsule 3-coccous, 4 in. across; cocci 
subglobose. Seeds globose, grey mottled with white—7'’. cannabina, 
Schweinf. Rel. Kotschy. 34, partly, as to t. 34, not of Linn, f. 
1. gallabatensis, Prain in Kew Bulletin 1909, 51. 
Wile Land. Galabat: Matamma, Sehweinfurth, 923! 
This species is most nearly related to 7. Hildebrandtii, Miill. Arg., with which 
it agrees in habit, but from which it differs in having all the leaves distinctly 
3-partite and in its much larger female calyx. Except as regards the female calyx 
it is hardly distinguishable from 7’. cannabina, Linn. f., var. intermedia, and has 
indeed been included by Schweinfurth in that species. Variable, however, as that 
species is, this suggestion is not one that it is advisable to adopt. 
14. 'T. Descampsii, De Wild. Etudes Fl. Katanga, 207. Stems 
erect from a woody base, about 1 ft. high, sparingly branched, densely 
pilose with soft retrorse pubescence and sparingly armed with a few 
stinging hairs. Leaves very shortly petioled, ascending, membranous, 
ovate, acute, base rather shallowly wide-cordate, not auriculate, margin 
sharply serrate, all young, the largest seen ? in. long, 3 in. wide, densely 
velvety and along the nerves rather closely armed with stinging hairs 
on both surfaces; petiole densely pubescent and sparingly bristly, 
1-1} lin. long; stipules lanceolate, spreading or reflexed, membranous, 
1} lin. long, with setose margins and a few hairs on the outer side. 
Racemes 1-sexual, dicecious, terminal on the stem and branches and 
below leaf-opposed; males up to 4 in. long, with a basal naked softly 
pilose peduncle 4-1} in. long; flowers very numerous, close-set above, 
sparse (at times 4 in. apart) towards the base, ternate throughout or in 
very shortly peduncled 3-flowered cymules towards the base ; pedicels 
pilose, shorter than the bracts ; bracts linear-lanceolate, 14 lin. long, 
densely pilose on the margins and externally. Male sepals 3, wide- 
ovate, acute, densely pubescent and bristly externally. Stamens 3; 
filaments longer than the anthers. 
South Central. Belgian Congo: Katanga, Descamps ! 
Very closely allied to 7. Rhodesia, Pax, but readily distinguished by the more 
densely pubescent leaves, shorter in proportion to their width, by the much longer 
racemes with more definitely and uniformly glomeralate male flowers and by the 
apparently strictly dicecious habit. The leaves in the only specimen seen are not 
full-grown and will doubtless prove to be less pubescent in the adult than in the 
“Uuvenile state, 
15. T. Rhodesiz, Paz in Engl. Jahrb. xxxix. 665. Stems erect 
from a woody base, 8 in. to 2 ft. high, sparingly branched, pilose with 
soft reflexed pubescence and very sparingly armed with a few spreading 
or ascending stinging hairs. Leaves very shortly petioled, ascending, 
membranous, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, base rather deeply wide- 
cordate, not auriculate, margin sharply serrate, 14 in. long, % in. wide, 
sparingly adpressed-pubescent and rather closely beset along the nerves 
