992 CXXII, EUPHORBIACEE (PRAIN). [ Zragia. 
3-coccous, sparingly bristly, 4 in. across; cocci bluntly angled on the 
back. Seeds globose; brown mottled with grey. 
Mozamb. Distr. British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Shire Highlands, near 
Blantyre, Last! 
A very distinct species. 
32. T. Schweinfurthii, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1909, 308. Stems 
erect from a woody base, 4-8 in. high, much-branched, densely pilose 
with stiff pubescence but without stinging hairs. Leaves sessile or very 
shortly petioled, ascending, chartaceous, lanceolate, subacute or acute, 
base rounded, margin minutely serrate, 14-2 in. long, } in. wide, densely 
pilose with stiff hairs on both surfaces; petiole 0-1 lin. long, when 
present densely pilose; stipules lanceolate, under 1 lin. long, rigid, 
reflexed, pilose. Racemes 1-sexual, dicecious, terminal on stem and 
branches and below leaf-opposed, more numerous in the male plant; 
male racemes 14-4 in. long with a very short naked peduncle pilose 
like the rhachis; flowers close-set above, more distant} below, very 
numerous; pedicels pilose, solitary to and shorter than the bracts; 
bracts lanceolate, 1 lin. long, sparingly pilose; female racemes 3-1} in. 
long, with a distinct naked pilose peduncle 4-} in. long; flowers few 
(3-6), rather remote ; pedicels pilose, solitary, + in. long, much exceed- 
ing the bracts, which are exactly as in the male. Male sepals 3, wide- 
ovate, pilose. Stamens 3; filaments considerably longer than the 
anthers. Female calyx-segments 6, densely pilose externally, ovate- 
lanceolate, chartaceous, at length accrescent but not coriaceous, 3 lin. 
long, 3- (sometimes 4-) partite at the tip, lobules short, lanceolate. 
Ovary densely adpressed-pilose; styles 3, very short, slightly connate" 
at the base. Capsule 3-coccous, rather sparingly adpressed-pilose, } in- 
across; cocci subglobose. Seeds globose, brown with grey blotches. 
Nile Land. Dar Fertit: by the Biri River, Schweinfurth, III, 152! Golo 
Country, Schweinfurth, III, 153! 
A very distinct species; agreeing, except in the absence of stinging bristles, as 
regards foliage and habit with 7. Wildemanii, Beille, but differing in being 
dioecious, in having a 6-partite female calyx and in having solitary male flowers. 
33. T. akwapimensis, Prain in Kew Bulletin, 1912, 235. Stems 
suberect from a woody base, 14-2 ft. high, much-branched, thinly 
puberulous and sparingly armed with stinging hairs. Leaves sessile or 
very shortly petioled, ascending, firmly membranous, lanceolate, obtuse 
with mucronulate tip, base shortly cuneate, or rounded, margin spar- 
ingly serrate towards the apex, elsewhere entire, 14-2 in. long, § in. 
wide, very sparingly shortly setose on the nerves on both surfaces and 
along the margins, otherwise glabrous; petiole 0-2 lin. long, sparingly 
setose and bristly ; stipules lanceolate, under 1 lin. long, rigid, reflexed, 
glabrous or sparingly shortly setose. Racemes 1-sexual, dicecious, 
terminal on stem and branches and below leaf-opposed; male racemes 
6-10 in. long, with a naked peduncle 2 in. long, thinly puberulous an 
sparingly bristly like the rhachis; flowers very numerous, rather remote 
throughout ; pedicels shortly pilose, solitary to their bracts or the lowest 
geminate, not longer than the bracts; bracts lanceolate, 1 lin. long; 
