980 CXXII, EUPHORBIACEX (PRAIN). | Zragia. 
with bristles on both surfaces; petioles 1-1} lin. long, densely pilose 
and sparingly bristly ; stipules lanceolate, acute, membranous, suberect, 
1 lin. long, with setose margins and a few hairs on the outer side. 
Racemes androgynous, terminal on the stem and branches and below 
leaf-opposed, 3-1 in, long, with a basal naked softly pilose peduncle 
4-4 in. long, with numerous male flowers above and 1 (rarely 2) basal 
female; male flowers rather close-set, solitary above, ternate or in very 
shortly peduncled 3-flowered cymules towards the base ; pedicels pilose, 
shorter than the bracts in both sexes ; bracts linear-lanceolate, 1-1} lin. 
long, similar in both sexes, with densely pilose margins and sparingly 
pilose outside. Male sepals 3, wide-ovate, acute, sparingly pilose. 
Stamens 3 ; filaments longer than the anthers. Female calyx-segments 6, 
alternately ovate-lanceolate and wide-ovate, sparingly pilose externally, 
accrescent and at length coriaceous, 4—5 lin. long, margin pectinately 
4-lobulate on each side, lobules short, lanceolate-triangular, densely 
Setose. Ovary densely pilose; styles 3, very shortly connate at the 
base. Capsule 3-coccous, very sparingly adpressed-pilose, } in. across; 
cocci subglobose. Seeds globose, brown mottled with grey. 
Mozamb. Distr. Rhodesia: near Salisbury, 5000 ft., Rand, 644! 1387! 
Engler, 3073! Marshall! 
Nearly related to 7’. cordifolia, Vahl, and no doubt the southern representative 
of that species, but readily distinguished therefrom by its erect habit and its much 
shorter petioles. 
16. 'T. cordifolia, Vahl, Symb.i.76. Stems long, slender, twining, 
finely puberulous, without stinging hairs. Leaves distinctly to long 
petioled, membranous, ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, rarely triangular- 
ovate, long-acuminate, base shallow- to deep-cordate, margin strongly 
and sharply serrate, 24-4 in. long, 3~14 (rarely 2) in. wide, puberulous 
and sparingly to copiously bristly on the nerves on both surfaces 
but especially beneath ; petiole 4-2} in. long, puberulous and sparingly 
to copiously bristly; stipules lanceolate, spreading or reflexed, gla- 
brous, 14 lin. long. Racemes terminal on the stems and branches, 
androgynous, slender, rather lax, 14-2} in. long, with a naked 
glabrous or sparingly bristly rather stiff peduncle 4-? in. long, with 
numerous male flowers above and a solitary basal female ; pedicels in 
both sexes solitary to and as long as their bracts, or occasionally the 
lower male flowers geminate; male bracts membranous, subulate, 
reflexed, puberulous, 1 lin. long; female bracts narrow-lanceolate, 
reflexed, 14 lin. long. Male sepals 3, wide-ovate, obtuse, plane 
Stamens 3; filaments broad, not longer than the anthers. Fema : 
calyx-segments 6, ovate, membranous, accrescent with an at ht 
rigidly coriaceous rhachis 5 lin. long, pinnately 6-7-lobulate on eac 
side ; lateral-lobules and rhachis externally bristly with stinging hairs, 
terminal laminula lanceolate, membranous ; lateral lobules —— a 
spreading, about 1 lin. long, persistent. Ovary silky-pubescent a 
bristly ; styles 8, glabrous, united in their lower half. mete 
3-coccous, sparingly silky- puberulous and rather copiously clothed vs : 
white bristles, 4 in. across ; cocci subglobose. Seeds globose, pale ye Se 
with small brown blotches.—Z. cordata, Willd. Sp. Pl. iv. 322 ; A, Rich. 
