998 CXXII. EUPHORBIACEE (PRAIN). [Tragia. 
with sparingly setose margins, males 1 lin., females 2 lin. long, mem- 
branous. Male sepals 3, ovate, sparingly pilose or glabrous. Stamens 3; 
filaments as long as the anthers. Female calyx-segments 3, sparingly 
pubescent externally, wide-ovate, chartaceous, hardly accrescent and 
very slightly indurated in fruit, margin pectinately 2—3-lobulate on each 
side, lobules short, lanceolate. Ovary densely hispid; styles 3, connate 
for less than half their length in aslender column. Capsule 3-coccous, 
sparingly adpressed-setose, 4 in. across; cocci bluntly angular. Seeds 
globose, pale brown, faintly mottled with darker patches.—Pax in Engl. 
Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 239. 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Umbugwe and Iraku; Kiwawa, 
Merker,125! and without precise locality, Fischer, 6! 
The bluntly angled cocci indicate that this species is most nearly allied to the 
group which includes 7’. angustifolia, Benth., and 7. kirkiana, Mill. Arg. 
42. T. kirkiana, Mill. Arg. in Flora, 1864, 538. Stems long, 
slender, twining, sparingly branched, glabrous or with a few white 
bristles. Leaves distinctly petioled, membranous, ovate-lanceolate or 
lanceolate, rarely triangular-ovate, acuminate, base deeply cordate and 
usually distinctly hastate, rarely only faintly lobed, 2-4 in. long, gl}. 
wide at the base, margin sharply serrate, usually more strongly in the 
lower half, sparingly hispid on the nerves on both surfaces, especially 
beneath, otherwise glabrous; petiole }-14 in. long, sparingly bristly ; 
stipules ovate-lanceolate, reflexed, membranous, with sparingly bristly 
margins, 1} lin. long. Racemes lateral, up to 2 in. long, dense, with a 
puberulous and sparingly bristly peduncle 1-1} in. long, with many male 
flowers above and 1-3 basal female flowers ; pedicels in both sexes shorter 
than and solitary to the bracts; bracts rather firm, ovate-lanceolate, 
spreading, their margins glabrous or very sparingly ciliolate, males 1 lin.» 
females J} lin. long. Male sepals 3, wide-ovate, glabrous. Stamens 35 
filaments considerably longer than the anthers, ineurved and subcon- 
nivent; connective distinctly thickened. Female calyx-segments 3, 
1-seriate, oblong, accrescent and coriaceous, 3-4 lin. long, rhachis obovate, 
pectinately 5-6-lobulate on each side, lobules sparingly white bristly, 
shorter than the breadth of the rhachis. Ovary sparingly bristly ; 
styles 3, connate in their lower half in a slender column. Capsule : 
coccous, almost glabrous, } in. across; cocci bluntly angled on the vers 
Seeds globose, grey mottled with pale brown.—DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 93: ‘i 
Pax in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. 0. 239. 7. angustifolia, var. hastata, Mill. 
Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 939. 
Mozamb. Distr. Portuguese Kast Africa: Cundine, Le Testu, 627! Mos- 
surezi, 500 tt., Johnson, 113! ‘Lower Shire River; base of Morambala crane 
Kirk (1858) ! Morambala, Kirk (1863) ! Shupanga, Kirk (1859)! British yer 
Africa: Nyasaland: between Songwe and Karonga, 1700-2000 ft., Whyte! — 
Plains, 2500-3000 ft., Whyte! Ntondwe, Cameron, 111! Mount Sochi, Sco 
Elliot, 8549! 8599 partly ! 
Nearly related to and intermediate between Z. angustifolia, Senki 
T. adenanthera, Baill., but readily distinguished from both by its male flowers. 
d 
