982 CXXII. EUPHORBIACEZ (PRAIN). | Tragia. 
silky-puberulous and rather densely bristly, } in. across; cocci sub- 
globose.. Seeds globose, greenish-grey, mottled with red.—7’. mitis, var. 
arabica, Mill. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 942. 7. pungens, var. arabica, 
Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. vii. App. ii. 310. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia: Galla; Belana, Hllenbeck, 322! Somaliland: without 
precise locality, Mrs. Lort-Phillips / 
Also in Arabia. 
Var. parvifolia, Prain. Leaves, twigs, peduncles, bracts and male sepals densely 
grey-pubescent. Female calyx-segments densely clothed with chestnut-brown 
bristles. Capsule densely hispid. Stems always erect, woody, much-branched, 1 ft. 
high. Leaves $ in. long; petioles densely tomentose ; otherwise as in the type.— 
T. parvifolia, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 102. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia: Harar, Ruspoli-Riva, 304! 
Mountains, 6500 ft., Hildebrandt, 891A! 
Very nearly allied to 7. cordifolia, Vahl, but with smaller leaves and somewhat 
different habit, and to 7. moammarensis, Baill., with which var. parvifolia agrees 
in habit and in the chestnut-brown colour of the bristles on the fruiting calyx, but 
with rather differently shaped leaves. Except as regards the colour of these bristles 
the two varieties, which agree as regards foliage, bear to each other exactly the 
relationship which 7. cordifolia and its var. cinerea bear to each other. 
Somaliland: Ahl 
18. T. mitis, Hochst. ex A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 244. Stems 
long, slender, twining, finely puberulous, without stinging hairs. Leaves 
distinctly to long petioled, membranous, triangular-ovate, acute or 
shortly acuminate, base shallowly to rather deeply usually widely some- 
times narrowly cordate, margin distinctly and sharply serrate, 23-43 in. 
long, 13-3 in. wide, shortly and softly puberulous on the nerves on both 
, Surfaces and without stinging bristles; petiole 3-24 in. long, softly 
puberulous ; stipules lanceolate, erect, softly puberulous, 2 lin. long. 
Racemes terminal on stems and branches, 1-sexual, dicecious, slender ; 
males rather dense at first, soon becoming lax, 2-6 in. long, with a 
slender naked puberulous peduncle 4-1} in. long, often accompanied by 
a smaller basal raceme and occasionally paniculately branched upwards ; 
pedicels above in 3-flowered glomerules, from the middle downwards in 
lax 3-flowered cymules; pedicels slender, puberulous, longer than their 
bracts and much longer than their bracteoles ; bracts and bracteoles 
membranous, subulate, reflexed, puberulous, 1 lin. long ; females lax, 
13-3 in. long, with peduncles as in the males but more rigid, the flows” 
few, up to 12, solitary to their bracts and sessile; bracts ovate- 
lanceolate, puberulous, 14-2 lin. long, the uppermost 4-6 often empty 5 
bracteoles similar but smaller. Male sepals 3, wide-ovate, pub 
externally. Stamens 3; filaments as long as the anthers. foe 
calyx-segments 6, ovate, membranous, accrescent with an at ree 
coriaceous only slightly rigid rhachis 5 lin. long, pinnately 8-lob ‘¢ : 
on each side; lateral lobules and rhachis externally silky -pubescent Du 
without stinging bristles; terminal laminula ovate-lanceolate, tr 
branous, lateral lobules lanceolate, spreading, about 1 lin. long; poe” 
sistent. Ovary silky-pubescent; styles 3, glabrous, united - res 
lower half, Capsule 3-coccous, sparingly hirsute, without bristles, 3 
