Lragia. | CXXI, EUPHORBIACEE (PRAIN), 985 
long, densely bristly with stinging hairs; with many male flowers above 
and 2-3 basal female flowers; pedicels in both sexes solitary to the 
bracts or occasionally with the lower male flowers geminate, sparingly 
bristly and almost as long as the bracts; male bracts membranous, 
narrow-lanceolate with bristly margins, otherwise glabrous, 1 lin. long ; 
female bracts like the male but rather larger. Male sepals 3, wide- 
ovate, sparingly bristly externally. Stamens 3; filaments as long as 
the anthers. Female calyx-segments 6, ovate-lanceolate, membranous, 
at length accrescent with an indurated linear rhachis, 6 lin. long, pin- 
nately 3-4-lobulate on each side, lateral lobules and rhachis externally 
densely beset with stinging bristles, terminal laminula narrowly lan-. 
ceolate, membranous, lateral lobules like the terminal laminula, ascend- 
ing, 2-24 lin. Jong, ultimately deciduous. Ovary densely strigose and 
bristly ; styles 3, glabrous, united in their lower half. Capsule 3-coc- 
cous, sparingly bristly with a few adpressed hairs intermixed, } in. 
across ; cocci subglobose. Seeds globose, brown mottled with grey.—7. 
cordifolia, Benth. in Hook. N iger Fl. 501; Miill. Arg. in DC. Prodr, xv. 
ii. 944; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 984; De Wild. Etudes 
Fl. Katanga, 80; Durand & De Wild. in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. 
Xxxvii. 106; De Wild. Miss. E. Laurent, 132, and Etudes FI. Bas- et 
Moyen-Congo, ii, 286; Th. & Hél. Durand, Syll. Fl. Congol. 498; not 
of Vahl. 7. mitis, var. Kirkii, Miill. Arg. in Flora, 1864, 435 and in 
DC. Prodr, xv. ii. 942. 7. kassiliensis, Beille in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, 
lvii. Mém. viii. 126. 
Upper Guinea. Ivory Coast: Achouka, Dybowski, 149! Agneby Valley, at 
Kassigué, Chevalier, 17050! Gold Coast: Cape Coast, Vogel, 53! Ashanti, 
Cummins! Togo: Misahohe, Baumann, 283! 450! Dahomey: Adja Onéré, 
Le Testu, 11! 12! Southern Nigeria: Lagos, Dawodu, 268! Lamborn, 260! 
Abeokuta, Millen, 80! Oban, Talbot, 613! Cameroons: Cameroon Mountain, 
1000 ft., Mann, 1255! Yaunde, Zenker & Staudt, 516! Bonge, Dusén ! Kumbo, 
Dusen, 621 Mashit», ‘2500 ft., ZLedermann, 5344! Songolong, 2800-4000 ft., 
Ledermann, 5623! Fernando Po; near Clarence, Vogel, 26! 
Nile Land. Niamniam: by the Nabambisso River, Schieinfurth, 2984! 
Uganda: Busiro, Dawe, 194! 
Lower Guinea. Spanish Guinea: Uelleberg; Wigu Klaga, Tessmann, 415! 
Bebao ; Nichobot, Zessmann, 4154! Guboon: Limbareni; Eninga, Buchholz! 
Monda Island, Thollon, 143! Ogowe River, Thollon, 418! French Congo; 
Brazzaville, Thollon, 415! Lower Congo: Banana, Cabra, 104! Mayumbe ; at 
Bingila, Dupuis! Cataracts district, Kitobola, Laurent ! Stanley Pool; Kisantu, 
Gillet, 3861 Mopolenge, Laurent, 425! Angola: Bembe, Monteiro! Golungo 
Alto; Sange, Bango «nd Mussenge, Welwitsch, 381! 38138! Buchner, 511! San 
Salvador, Buettner, 256! 
. South Central. Belgian Congo: Kwango district, Lazaret, Vanderyst / 
Catala Canginga, Rensch, 3228! Equatorial district; Eala, Laurent, 157! Katanga ; 
Lukafu, Verdick, 453! Kasai; Mukenge, Pogge, 1399! : 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Kilimanjaro; Kibo, 4000 ft., 
Endvich, 63! Portuguese East Afriea: between Lupata and Tete, Kirk! at Tete, 
Kirk! British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Namasi, Cameron, oy 
Very nearly allied to 7. Srevipes, Pax, and only definitely separable by the 
absence of a soft pubescence accompanying the stinging hairs. In this respect the 
Niamniam plant (Schweinfurth, 2984) identified (probably quite justifiably) by 
