996 CXXII. EUPHORBIACEH (PRAIN). | Tragia. 
Female calyx-segments 3, 1-seriate, ovate, membranous, accrescent but 
hardly indurated, 5 lin. long, rhachis broadly ovate-oblong, pectinately 
6-7-lobulate on each side, softly hirsute externally, lateral lobules 
ascending, persistent, not exceeding the diameter of the rhachis in 
length, softly hirsute and sparingly beset with stinging bristles. 
Ovary sparingly strigose and bristly ; styles 3, glabrous, shortly con- 
nate at the base only. Capsule 3-coccous, sparingly bristly, $ in. across ; 
cocci subglobose. Seeds globose, grey mottled with brown.—Biaill. 
Etude Gén, Euphorb. 461 and Adansonia, i. 275. 7’. angustifolia, 
var. furialis, Mill. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 939. 
Mozamb. Distr. Zanzibar, Sacleux, 588 ! 
Perhaps only casually introduced to Zanzibar from Madagascar or the Comoro 
Islands where it is plentiful. Though usually identified with 7. angustifolia, 
Beuth., it only agrees with that species in having a 3-partite female calyx. 
39. 'T. Scheffleri, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1908, 439. Stems 
long, slender, twining, finely puberulous or glabrous and sparingly 
armed with stinging hairs. Leaves distinctly petioled, membranous, 
ovate, acuminate, base usually deeply (rarely shallow) cordate, margin 
sharply serrate, 2-4 in. long, 11-2 in. wide, faintly puberulous and 
occasionally with a few white bristles on the nerves on both surfaces, 
otherwise glabrous; petiole 1-2 in. long, faintly puberulous and some- 
times sparingly bristly; stipules lanceolate, reflexed, membranous, 
glabrous, 14 lin. long. Racemes lateral, 1} in. long, slender, rather 
lax, with a sparingly puberulous naked peduncle } in. long, with many 
male flowers above and 1-2 basal female flowers; pedicels in both sexes 
shorter than the bracts, males solitary above, in fascicles of 3 lower 
down ; bracts membranous, ovate-lanceolate, with puberulous margins, 
males I lin., females 14 lin. long. Male sepals 3, wide-ovate, sparingly 
puberulous or glabrous externally. Stamens 3; filaments as long as 
the anthers ; connective somewhat thickened. Female calyx-segments 3, 
1-seriate, wide-ovate, membranous, accrescent, but only chartaceous, 
8 lin. long, rhachis broadly ovate-oblong, pectinately 5-6-lobulate on 
each side, glabrous externally, lateral lobules persistent, lanceolate, Ae 
to 3 lin. long, exceeding in length the diameter of the rhachis, sparing'y 
beset with white bristles. Ovary sparingly setose; styles 3, yore 
more than halfway in a slender column. Capsule 3-coccous, almost 
glabrous or with only a few adpressed bristles, 3 in. across; ag 
bluntly angled on the back. Seeds globose, brown with grey blotches. 
Mozamb. Distr. Zanzibar, Sacleux, 589! Bojer! Pemba Island, Bojer! 
German East Africa: Usambara; Nquelo, 3300 ft., Scheffler, 47! Gonja, 2 $31 
4200 ft., Holst, 43214! Engler, 1547! 1554! Amani, 2000 ft., Zimmermann, 
Bomole, Braun, 749 ! 
Nearest to 7. furialis, Bojer, from which it is readily distinguished by its — 
more deeply lobulate female calyx-segments. Sacleux remarks of the two Rage 
both of which he has collected in Zanzibar, that externally they closely pane ee 
other, but that while 7’. furialis is intensely, 7. Schefferi is hardly, 4 ® 
articant. 
