Tragia. | CXXII, EUPHORBIACEE (PRAIN). 989 
to and shorter than their bracts; bracts broadly ovate, acute, rather 
firmly membranous, with shortly pubescent and finely glandular 
margins, otherwise glabrous, bracteoles also ovate, acute, male bracts 
1} lin., female 2 lin, long. Male sepals 3, yellow, orbicular, glabrous, 
Stamens 3 ; filaments very short. Female calyx-segments 6, 2-seriate, 
acerescent but hardly indurated, 4 lin. long, pinnately 5-6-lobulate on 
each side, rhachis broad oblong-lanceolate, lobules triangular, shorter 
than the diameter of the rhachis, sparingly setose outside like the rhachis 
with white bristles. Ovary sparingly hispid ; styles 3, connate for half 
their length. Capsules 3-coccous, very sparingly beset with weak 
bristles, } in. across ; cocci subglobose. 
os Mozamb. Distr. German Kast Africa: Kilimatinde ; 3500 ft., von Prittwitz, 
! 
Nearest to 7. glabrescens, Pax, from which it is readily distinguished by its 
stouter stems, larger leaves, much larger male bracts and capsule, and especially by 
the female calyx-lobes which in fruit have pinnately spreading in place of palmately 
ascending lobules. 
27. T. Preussii, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xix.102. Stem long, slender, 
twining, without stinging hairs. Leaves distinctly to long petioled, 
membranous, oblong-lanceolate or oblong, acuminate, narrowed from 
the middle to the narrow-cordate or subhastate base, margin faintly 
undulate or entire, 64-8 in. long, 2-3 in. wide, quite glabrous on both 
surfaces ; petiole 2-24 in. long; stipules slightly spreading, narrow- 
triangular, 2 lin, long. Racemes lateral, leaf-opposed, simple, 1-2 in. 
long, or in pseudo-panicles terminating lateral branches, the main 
rhachis with stipules but no leaves, 5-10 in. long, 24-4 in. across ; 
individual racemes 2-34 in. long, lax, with many male flowers above 
and 1-2 female flowers near the base ; pedicels in both sexes solitary to 
and much exceeding the bracts, 2 lin. long; bracts narrow-lanceolate ; 
spreading, shorter than the pedicels. Male sepals 3, ovate. Stamens 3, 
subsessile. Female calyx-segments 6, lanceolate, hardening but very 
slightly accrescent in fruit, irregularly pinnatipartite, rhachis narrow, 
With 2 or 3 unequal short lobes on each side. Ovary sparingly setose ; 
Styles 3, glabrous, united below. Capsule 3-coccous, sparingly setose, 
t in. across ; cocci subglobose. Seeds globose, dark brown with paler 
blotches, — 7”, Winkleri, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xliii. 82. 
Upper Guinea. Southern Nigeria: Oban, Talbot, 624! Cameroons : 
Victoria, Winkler, 343! Barombi, Preuss, 467 ! 
South Central. Belgian Congo: Kasai; Mukenge, Pogge, 1396! 
A very distinct species readily recognised by the length, not only of its male, but 
of its femalo pedicels. 
28. T. ukambensis, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 105. Stems erect, 
Sparingly branched; branches slender, straight, densely armed with 
stinging hairs. Leaves petioled, thinly membranous, lanceolate or 
ovate-lanceolate, acute, base truncate or shallowly cordate, margin ser- 
rate except at the base, 1-14 in. long, 3-3 in. wide, sparingly pubescent 
and densely bristly on the nerves on both surfaces ; petiole densely 
