984 CXXII, EUPHORBIACE# (PRAIN). [ Tragia. 
lateral and terminal on the lateral branches, slender, rather lax, 14-2} 
in. long, with a naked peduncle 4—} in. long, densely pubescent with 
reflexed hairs, with many male flowers above and 2-3 basal female 
flowers; pedicels in both sexes solitary to the bracts, or occasionally 
the lower male flowers geminate, pubescent and shorter than the 
bracts ; male bracts membranous, subulate, reflexed, pubescent exter- 
nally, 1 lin. long; female bracts like the male but rather larger. Male 
sepals 3, wide-ovate, pubescent and sparingly bristly externally. 
Stamens 3; filaments as long as the anther. Female calyx-segments 6, 
ovate-lanceolate, membranous, accrescent with an at length indurated 
rhachis 6 lin. long, pinnately 3—4-lobulate on each side. lateral lobules 
and rhachis externally densely clothed with silky hairs and stinging 
bristles, terminal laminula narrowly lanceolate or subulate, membranous, 
lateral lobules like the terminal laminula ascending, 24-3 lin. long, 
ultimately deciduous. Ovary densely strigose and bristly ; styles 3, 
glabrous, united in their lower half. Capsule 3-coccous, sparingly hir- 
sute and densely bristly, } in. across; cocci subglobose. Seeds globose, 
brown mottled with grey.—Pax in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 240. 7’, cor- 
data, T. Thoms. in Speke’s Nile Journ. App. 647, not of A. Rich. 7. 
mitis, var. genuina, Mill. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 942, partly. 
T. mitis, Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 147, not of Hochst. 7’. velu- 
tina, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 104, and in Engl. Pf. Ost-Afr. C. 240. 
Z’. Volkensii, Pax in Engl. Pf. Ost-Afr. C. 239. 
Nile Land. Uganda: Ruchigga, Bagshawe, 455! British East Africa: 
Kavirondo, at Kisumu; 4400-6000 ft., Whyte! Edith Skene, 153! Mount Kenia, 
Mackinder ! 
South Central. Belgian Congo: on Lake Albert Edward, StuhImann, 3044! 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Usambara; Kwai, Hick, 389! 
Iubego, 6600 ft., Keil, 120! Kilimanjaro, 4000-5000 ft., Johnston ! Merker, 
598! Marangn, 5000 ft., Volkens, 729! Ileto, 4600-5000 ft., Volkens, 358! 
Umbngwe and Iraku, Merker, 130! Karagwe, Speke & Grant, 388! near Bukoba, 
Stuhlmann, 4085 ! Marienburg, 5500 ft., Conrads, 88! Kafuro, 4500 ft., Stuhlmann, 
1718! Kagera, Mildbraed, 339! Ruanda; Niansaberg, 5600 ft., Kandt, 35! 
British Central Africa: Nyasaland; near Mpata, 2000-3000 ft., Whyte ! 
Very closely allied to 7. Benthami, Baker, but readily distinguished by the more 
deeply cordate leaves with usually a narrower sinus and by the pubescence which 
accompanies the stinging bristles. 
21. T. Benthami, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1910, 128. Stems long, 
slender, twining, finely puberulous or nearly glabrous and sparingly 
armed with stinging hairs. Leaves distinctly petioled, membranous, ovate, 
acute or acuminate, base shallowly, less often rather deeply wide-cordate, 
rarely subtruncate or rounded, margin distinctly and sharply serrate, 
2-4 in. long, 1-2 in. wide, sparingly or very sparingly bristly setose, 
especially on the nerves, on both surfaces, otherwise glabrous; petiole 
#-2} in. long, bristly setose with stinging hairs; stipules lanceolate, 
1-1} lin. long, spreading or somewhat reflexed, with bristly setose weal 
gins, otherwise glabrous. Racemes lateral and terminal on the latera 
branches, slender, rather lax, }-} in. long, with a naked peduncle $-} in 
