988 CXXII, EUPHORBIACEH (PRAIN). [ Tragia. 
side, lobules ascending, narrow-lanceolate, each 4 in. long, pubescent 
like the rhachis and on their margins very densely beset with stiff 
white bristles. Ovary nearly glabrous; styles 3, connate at the base 
in a very short column. Capsule 3-coccous, very sparingly clothed ° 
with thin white bristles, its walls thinly coriaceous and flexible, ? in. 
ACTFOSS. 
Lower Guinea. German South-West Africa: Ovambo; Otavi, Dinter, 753! 
Most nearly allied to and most closely resembling in habit 7. Okanyua, Pax, but 
easily distinguished from this and from all other African species of the genus by its 
very large, thin-walled fruit. 
25. 'T. glabrescens, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 104. Stems long, 
slender, twining, sparingly branched, glabrous, Leaves distinctly 
petioled, membranous, triangular-ovate, acute or acuminate, base rather 
deeply wide-cordate, margin serrate, 1-14 in. long, 3-1 in. wide, very 
sparingly bristly on the nerves especially beneath, otherwise glabrous ; 
petiole sparingly bristly, 4-2 in. long; stipules wide triangular- 
lanceolate, erect, with a few marginal sete, 14 lin. long. Racemes 
lateral, 14 in. long, on slender naked sparingly bristly peduncles 3-1 in. 
long, with numerous rather close-set male flowers above and 1-2 basal 
female flowers; pedicels in the male flowers solitary to and shorter 
than the bracts ; female flowers subsessile, solitary ; bracts membranous, 
rather widely ovate-lanceolate, glabrous, males 1 lin., females 1} lin. 
long. Male sepals 3, ovate, acute, glabrous. Stamens 3; filaments 
longer than the anthers. Female calyx-segments 6, 2-seriate, broadly 
ovate, accrescent and coriaceous, 3 lin. long, rhachis obovate or oblong; 
pectinately 3-4-lobulate on each side, lateral lobules sparingly white- 
bristly, lanceolate. Ovary hispid and bristly; styles 3, connate im 
their lower half in a slightly puberulous column. Capsule 3-coccous, 
Sparingly white-bristly, 4 in. across ; cocci subglobose. Seeds irae 
greenish-yellow marbled with red.— Pax in Engl. Pil. Ost-Afr. C. 240. 
Nile Land. British East Africa: Duruma; Chamtei, Hildebrandt, 2345! 
Magi Chumoi, 570 ft., Kassner, 466! 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Usambara; Doda, Holst, 2984! 
Most closely resembles 7’, adenanthera, Baill., but with different anthers and 
with a 6-partite female calyx. 
26. 'T. insuavis, Prain in Kew Bulletin, 1912, 237. Stems “ 
slender, suberect from a woody base, twining upwards, at first fot? 
puberulous, without stinging hairs. Leaves distinctly petioled, mem 
branous, ovate or oblong, acute or very shortly acuminate, bent ae 
shallow-cordate, margin coarsely serrate, 2-4 in. long, 1}2d ES si 
very sparingly pubescent on the nerves on both surfaces, ster 
glabrous ; petiole 1-1} in. long, faintly puberulous and with a rai 
seattered bristles; stipules ovate-lanceolate, spreading, pabess on 
outside, inside glabrous, 1 lin. long. Racemes lateral, $-1 in. long, pas 
short puberulous peduncles }-} in. long, with many dense male aie 
above and a solitary basal female flower ; pedicels in both sexes $0! wid 
