Tragia. | CXXII, EUPHORBIACE® (PRAIN). 991 
ovate-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, base rounded or truncate or 
shallow-cordate, margin finely to coarsely toothed, 14-24 in. long, 
$+} in. wide, very sparingly hispid or pubescent on the nerves on both 
surfaces ; petioles 0-3 in. long, sparingly hispid or glabrous; stipules 
ovate-lanceolate, firm, spreading, sparingly hispid on the margins, 
1} lin. long. Racemes lateral, leaf-opposed, } in. long, rather dense, 
with a puberulous or shortly pubescent peduncle } in. long, with many 
male flowers above and with a solitary, often with no female flower 
below; pedicels in both sexes puberulous, shorter than and solitary to 
their bracts ; bracts glabrous, firmly membranous, males ovate-lanceolate 
or lanceolate, spreading, 1 lin. long, females ovate, very shortly 3-toothed 
at the apex, reflexed, 1} lin. long. Male sepals 3, wide-ovate, glabrous 
or faintly puberulous. Stamens 3; filaments short. Female calyx-seg- 
ments 6, obovate-oblong, 2-seriate, subequal, accrescent and coriaceous, 
at length 23 lin. long; rhachis oblanceolate, pectinately 6-lobulate on 
each side, lateral lobules lanceolate, shorter than the diameter of the 
rhachis, sparingly shortly setose. Ovary hispid; styles 3, glabrous, 
connate in their lower half. Capsule 5-coccous, very sparingly hispid, 
+ in. across ; cocci subglobose. Seeds globose, brown with grey blotches. 
—DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 940; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl, Welw. i. 984. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Pungo Andongo; between Manghe and Can- 
<lumba, Welwitsch, 425! Huilla; near Lopollo, Welwitsch, 426! Dekindt, 1043! 
Mounyino, 5900 ft., Antunes, 320! on the Cuango River, 10° 30’ S., Pogge, 545! 
A very distinct species, somewhat variable in habit. 
31. T. shirensis, Prain in Kew Bulletin, 1912, 239. Stems erect, 
rather stout, from a woody base, 1-14 ft. high, sparingly to copiously 
branched, rather densely hispid above with spreading hairs mixed with 
a few stinging hairs. Leaves sessile or very shortly petioled, ascending, 
membranous, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, base shortly cuneate or 
rounded, margin shortly and sharply toothed, 2-3 in. long, 4-2 in. 
Wide, strigose on the nerves above, strigose and bristly on the nerves 
beneath; petiole 0-1 lin. long, when present strigose and bristly ; 
Stipules lanceolate, rigid, spreading, 14 lin. long, their margins setose. 
cemes androgynous, terminal on the stem and branches, 1-3 in. long, 
with a basal naked patently strigose peduncle }-} in. long, with 
numerous scattered male flowers above, and 2-3 basal female ; pedicels 
filiform, sparingly pilose, in both sexes longer than the bracts, males 
glomerulate in threes, females solitary ; bracts lanceolate with setose 
margins, 1 lin. long, membranous. Male sepals 3, ovate, acute, spar- 
ingly pilose externally. Stamens 3; filaments much longer than the 
anthers. Female calyx-segments 6, 2-seriate and dissimilar, sparingly 
pilose externally, accrescent and coriaceous in fruit, ultimately 3-4 lin. 
ong, 3 outer ovate, pectinately 3-4-lobulate on each side, lobules short, 
ovate, acute, 3 inner reduced to an oblong-lanceolate rhachis with entire 
margin but with at the base 3-4 lanceolate lobules, reflexed and patent. 
vary sparingly hispid and bristly; styles 3, connate for more than 
half their length in a rather stout puberulous column. Capsule 
