Tragia. | CXXII, EUPHORBIACEE (PRAIN). 993 
sparingly pilose ; female racemes not seen. Male sepals 3, wide-ovate, 
sparingly shortly pilose. Stamens 3 ; filaments considerably longer than 
the anthers. 
Upper Guinea. Gold Coast: Aburi, Anderson, 54! 
Very closely allied to 7. Schweinfurthii, Baker, but readily distinguished by 
the obtuse almost glabrous leaves and the much longer male racemes. 
34. 'T. dioica, Sond. in Linnea, xxiii. 109. Stems erect or sub- 
erect, several from a woody base, sparingly branched upwards, rather 
copiously armed with stinging hairs. Leaves shortly to distinctly 
petioled, membranous, lanceolate, acute above, base shallowly broadly 
auriculate-cordate, basal lobes oblong and coarsely toothed, mid-lobe 
remotely and shortly serrate, 2-3 in. long, 4-4 in. wide above the base, 
+1} in. wide at the base, rather sparingly bristly setose, especially on 
the nerves, on both surfaces; petiole }-1 (rarely 2) in. long, copiously 
bristly setose ; stipules lanceolate, reflexed, sparingly setose, 14 lin. long, 
Racemes terminal and lateral, leaf-opposed, 3-14 in. long, on stiff naked 
bristly setose peduncles $-14 in. long, with numerous dense male flowers 
above and 1-3 basal female flowers ; pedicels in both cases solitary to 
and rather longer than the bracts, puberulous or pubescent; bracts 
membranous, ovate, puberulous or pubescent, males under 1 lin. long, 
females nearly 2 lin. long. Male sepals 3, ovate, subacute, puberulous. 
Stamens 3; filaments short. Female calyx-segments 1-seriate, very 
irregular, often apparently 3 but with usually a small additional lobe 
Sometimes reduced to a single linear lobule, not infrequently 5-6, 
occasionally 7, at least three very accrescent and coriaceous, 4 lin. long, 
deeply subpectinately 3-7-lobulate on each side, lobules lanceolate, 
densely bristly, rhachis from lanceolate to suborbicular, glabrous 
within, bristly externally. Ovary rather sparingly hispid; styles 3, 
connate half their length in a puberulous column, Capsule 3-coccous, 
sparingly bristly hispid, 3 in. across; cocci subglobose. Seeds globose, 
dark grey with brown blotches.— Walp. Ann. iii. 363 ; Baill. Adansonia, 
as. 162. 7" rupestris, var. lobata, Miill. Arg. in DC, Prodr. xv. ii. 941. 
1’. Schinzii, Pax in Bull. Herb. Boiss. vi. 734. 
Lower Guinea. German South-West Africa: Amboland; Okasima, Schinz, 
896! Oshihehe, Schinz, 896A! Otyitno, Dinter, 870! Hereroland; Okahandya, 
Dinter, 821 Quaaiputs, Dinter, 193! Rehoboth, Fleck, 444! 446! 451! 
Mozamb. Distr. Rhodesia: Bulawayo, Kolbe in Herb, Bolus, 4109! 
Also in South Africa, where the species occurs in two distinct forms, hardly 
deserving of recognition as separate varieties. The first form, on which the species 
was originally based, is rather densely aculeate on the stems and leaves, and 
casually, as in some specimens collected in the Macalisberg range by Zeyher and 
Burke, may be polygamo-dicecious. The second form is much more sparingly 
Setose. All the specimens from our area belong to the less setose form of the 
Species, which is the original basis of Z. Schinzit, Pax, except Dinter’s 870, which 
is referable to the other form. 
35. T. Wildemanii, Beille in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, lv. Mém, viii. 
82. Stems erect from a woody base, 1-1} ft. high, sparingly branched, 
densely softly pubescent and sparingly armed with stinging hairs. Leaves 
sessile or very shortly petioled, ascending, membranous, lanceolate, 
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