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Ctcnomcria,'] EUPHOfiBiACE.4' (rraiii). 50i 



rcflexed, membranous ; racemes androgynous, tenniiial on branches 

 or leaf -opposed, 3-G in. long ; peduncles iiaked, glabrous to pubescent, 

 up to 1 in. long, with many male flowers in rather remote 3-flowered 

 cyrnules or glouierules above and 1 (less often 2) basal female 

 flowers j bracts lanceolate, acute ; male pedicels as long as the calyx, 

 female pedicels longer ; male calyx 5-sect ; lobes ovate, acute, 

 puberulous or pubescent outside ; stamens 40-60 ; anthers longer 

 than fiiamentSj introrse ; female calyx 6-partite ; lobes pectinately 

 6-8-lacinulate on each side, rhachis lanceolate, somewhat accrescent 

 and indurated in fruit, at length \ in. long ; ovary setose ; styles 3, 



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cocci subglobose, sparingly to copiously setose and bristly ; seeds 

 globose, closely reticulate, JiailL Adansoniay iii. 161. (7. kraumana, 

 Ilocltd. ex Kraass, in Flora, 1845, 85; Sond, in Lmnsea, xxiii. 110; 



Baill, I.e. C. capemsis, Harv. ex Sond. Lc. 109; Praia in Journ. 

 Hot. 1913, 17L Tragia capeusis^ Thunh, Prodr. 14, and in Fl. Cap, 

 ed. SrJifilt. 37 ; E, Meyer in Drege, Zwei Pfl. Docicmeute, 226, Gahjc- 

 hoHcli plant only, Leptorhacltis capensis, MUlL Arg,, and L. cajycnsis^ 

 forma luxurians, Miill Arg. in DC, Prodr xv. ii. 926. 



Coast Region : George Div. ; near George, Afundd^Maire, 245 ! KtiysiiaDiv. ; 

 woods of Kuysna and Pletteiibergs Bay, Bowie I between Kevu-booius Kiver and 

 Bitou Iviver, Burchell^ 5292 ! Bosch River, Dvege, 8239 ! Hiimauadorp Div. ; near 

 Humanadorp, 200 ft., KeJinedy] MacOwan, 314 ! Uitenhage Div. ; near Uiteuhage, 

 Thunhergl Zeyher, 676! 3845! by the Coega River and in the Winterhoek 

 Mountains, Ecklon tt Zetflier, 71 1 Galgebosch, Drege ! Kleine Place, Prior ! 

 Albany Div. ; Howiaons Poort, near Grahamstown, Mrs. Ifutton ! Mrs. Barber, 

 113 ! Williamson ! Komgha Div. ; near the mouth of the Kei River, Flajiafjav, 451 ! 



KaIiAHaiu Hegiois : Transvaal ; Umvoti Creek, near Barberton, 3000 ft., Galena, 

 1002 ! 



Eastern Region : Transkei ; Kentani, 1000 ft., Miss Peeler, 287 ! Natal ; 

 near Durban, Gueinzius \ Gerrard, 310 ! 604, partly ! Relimaiin, 8807 ! Clairmout, 

 Scldechter, 2843! Berea, 200-300 ft., Wood, 63:i5 I Inanda, Wooil, 7071 801! 

 Dumisa, 2000 ft., Rudatit; 709! near Umlaas River, Krauss, 186! 



Somewhat variable as regards the degr-ee of pubescence which is copious hi tlie* 

 original Tragia capensis {C, capensis, Harv.) but almost absent in 0. cm'daia, 

 Harv. The two are, however, connected by so many intermediate;? that it is not 

 possible to separate them as distinct varieties. 



2. C. Schlechteri (Prain in Journ. But. 1913, 171) ; stems twining, 

 3-3 ft. long, sparingly branched, pubescent with spreading hairs ; 

 leaves loag-petioled, membranous, palmately 5-lobed, central and 

 lateral lobes oblong, basal lobes suborbicular, lobes obtuse or sub- 

 acute, their margin coarsely and distantly crenate or serrate, base 

 wide-cordate, lamina 2 in. long, as much across, central lobe 1-1 J in. 

 ^^'^o5 i~l ill' wide, lateral one half as long, basal short, pale green, 

 sparingly beset with white bristles above, densely bristly especially 

 on the nerves beneath: petiole l^-lj in. long, pubescent with 

 spreading hairs ; stipules lanceolate, reflexed, membranous ; racemes 

 androgynous, terminal on the branches or leaf^opposed, 2-4 in. long, 

 on naked patently pubescent peduncles 1^ in. long or longer, with 

 a few :3-flowered cvmules of male flowers above, and usually 2 basal 



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