Tragia. | CXXII. EUPHORBIACEZ (PRAIN). 999 
43. 'T. angustifolia, Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 502, not of Nutt. 
Stems 7 feet long or longer, slender, twining, freely branching, sparingly 
pubescent or glabrous, and sparsely armed with stinging hairs. Leaves 
distinctly petioled, membranous, ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, acumi- 
nate, base shallow-cordate, margin finely and sharply serrate, very rarely 
coarsely toothed, 34-4 in. long, 3-1} in. wide at the base, finely puberu- 
lous on the nerves on both surfaces and sparingly armed with white 
bristles beneath, or quite glabrous except for the white bristles on both 
surfaces ; petiole }-1 in. long, puberulous and bristly; stipules ovate- 
lanceolate, reflexed, membranous, sparingly puberulous, 14 lin. long. 
Ricemes lateral, up to 3 in. long, dense, with a puberulous and densely 
‘bristly peduncle 4 in. long, with many male flowers above and 1-2 basal 
female flowers ; pedicels in both sexes shorter than the bracts, males 
Solitary above, geminate below, females solitary; bracts membranous, 
Ovate-lanceolate, their margins finely ciliolate, males 1 lin., females 
1} lin. long. Male sepals 3, wide-ovate, sparingly puberulous outside. 
Stamens 3; filaments as long as the anthers; connective distinctly 
thickened. Female calyx-segments 3, 1-seriate, oblong, accrescent and 
coriaceous, 3-4 lin. long, rhachis obovate, pectinately 6-8-lobulate on 
each side, lobules densely white bristly, shorter than the breadth of the 
thachis. Ovary densely hispid and bristly; styles 3, glabrous, connate 
in their lower half in a slender column. Capsule 3-coccous, rather 
Sparingly bristly, } in. across; cocci bluntly angled on the back. Seeds 
globose, grey mottled with pale brown.— Walp. Ann. iii. 363; Miill. 
Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 939. 
Upper Guinea. Northern Nigeria: Nupe, Barter, 1732! Lower Niger, 
Vogel, 108! Lagos, Dawodu, 205! Cameroons: on the River Benue, 1000 ft., 
Ledermann, 4794! Garua, 1000 {t., Ledermann, 4997! 
A very distinct species. 
44, T. senegalensis, Mill. Arg. in Linnea, xxxiv. 182. Stems 
erect or suberect or rambling, not truly twining or only slightly so at 
the tips, 2-6 ft. high from a woody base, very sparingly branched, 
pubescent and sparingly armed with stinging hairs. — Leaves distinctly 
to long petioled, membranous, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, base shallow 
to deeply cordate, margin sharply toothed, 33-4 in. long, 1}-2 in., rarely 
only } in. wide, strigose and bristly especially on the nerves on both 
surfaces ; petiole }-1 (rarely 1}) in. long, strigose and bristly ; stipules 
Ovate-lanceolate, reflexed, membranous, sparingly hirsute, 1} lin. long. 
Racemes terminal and lateral, up to 1 in. long, dense, with a pubescent 
and bristly peduncle }-4 in. long, with many male flowers above and 
usually 2 basal female flowers; pedicels in both sexes shorter than the 
bracts, males fascicled, females solitary; bracts membranous, ovate- 
neeolate, rather densely pilose externally, males 1 lin., females 1} lin. 
long. Male sepals 3, wide-ovate, sparingly puberulous outside. Stamens 
3; filaments as long as the anthers; connective much thickened. Female 
Caly X-segments 3, rarely 4-5, 1-seriate, oblong or suborbicular, aes hi 
€ent and coriaceous, 5 lin. long,!rhachis wide-obovate, pectinately 6- 8- 
lobulate on each side, lateral lobules densely white bristly, shorter than 
