Tragia. | CXXII, EUPHORBIACEH (PRAIN). 995 
37. T. Dinteri, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xliii. 82. Stems erect and 
woody below, from a very stout woody base, above copiously branching ; 
branches long, slender, herbaceous, rigid, straight, finely puberulous 
and armed with stinging hairs. Leaves distinctly petioled, membranous, 
pale green, ovate-triangular, acuminate, base deep-cordate, margin rather 
coarsely serrate, 14-2} in. long, 3-1} in. wide, closely bristly setose on 
the nerves on both surfaces, otherwise glabrous; petiole 1-2 in. long, 
bristly setose ; stipules lanceolate, reflexed, with sparingly bristly mar- 
gins, otherwise glabrous, 1} lin. long. Racemes androgynous or some- 
times 1-sexual, lateral, leaf-opposed, 4-4 in. long, on short, rather stiff, 
puberulous and densely bristly peduncles 4-4 in. long, with few rather 
lax male flowers above and usually 2 basal female flowers ; pedicels all 
solitary to and shorter than their bracts ; bracts all thinly membranous, 
males 1 lin. long, narrow-lanceolate, reflexed, sparingly pubescent, 
females lanceolate, 2 lin. long, of the upper female flower entire, of the 
lower 1-toothed on each side near the base ; bracteoles lanceolate, entire. 
Male sepals 3, orbicular, obtuse, puberulous outside. Stamens 3; 
filaments considerably longer than the anthers, incurved and sub- 
connivent ; connective slightly thickened. Female calyx-segments 8, 
1-seriate, ovate, membranous, accrescent but hardly indurated, 4 lin. 
long, rhachis broadly ovate-oblong, pectinately 4-lobulate on each side, 
Sparingly hirsute externally, lateral lobules ascending, persistent, about 
as long as the diameter of the rhachis, rather closely bristly setose. 
Ovary nearly glabrous ; styles 3, glabrous, very long, connate for nearly 
three-fourths their length in arigid slender column. Capsule 3-coccous, 
Sparingly finely puberulous and with a few white bristles especially 
along the middle, 4 in. across; cocci bluntly angled along the back. 
Lower Guinea. German South-West Africa: Hereroland; between Okahandya 
and Otyisasu, 4000 ft., Dinter, 942 ! 
A distinct species with male flowers like those of 7. kirkiana, Miill. Arg., but 
otherwise very different. 
38. T. furialis, Bojer, Hort. Maurit. 286. Stems long, slender, 
twining, finely puberulous or nearly glabrous and sparingly armed with 
Stinging hairs. Leaves distinctly petioled, membranous, ovate or 
ovate-oblong, acute or acuminate, base distinctly cordate, margin 
shortly to distinctly serrate, 2-4 in. long, 1-2} in. wide, sparingly to 
distinctly bristly setose, especially on the nerves and especially beneath, 
otherwise glabrous ; petiole 3-23 in. long, sparingly to closely bristly 
Setose with stinging hairs; stipules lanceolate, 1-14 lin. long, spreading 
or somewhat reflexed with setose margins, otherwise glabrous. Racemes 
lateral and terminal on the lateral branches, slender, rather dense, 
¢ in. long, with a puberulous naked peduncle }-} in. long, with 
Many male flowers above and 1-3 basal female flowers ; pedicels in both 
Sexes solitary to and shorter than the bracts; male bracts membranous, 
narrow-lanceolate, sparingly hirsute, 1 lin. long, reflexed ; female bracts 
ike the male but slightly larger. Male sepals 3, wide-ovate, sparingly 
irsute externally, Stamens 3; filaments as long as the anthers. 
