502 EutHORBtACE^ (Praiii). [Ctenomeria. 



female flowers ; bracts lanceolate, acute ; pedicels in botli sexes long, 

 patently hirsute ; male calyx 5-sect ; lobes ovate, acute, rather 

 densely setose outside ; stamens 30-40 ; anthers longer than the 

 filaments^ introrse ; female calyx 6-partIte ; lobes pectinately 4-6- 

 lacinulate on each side, i^hachis lanceolate, somewhat accrescent, 

 at length \ in. long, not indurated ; ovary densely setose ; styles 3, 

 \ in. long, densely papillose ; capsule 3-coccous, ^ in. across ; cocci 

 subglobose, closely adpressed setose and bristly. Tragia SchlecJiiert, 

 Pax in Bull. Herb. Boiss. vi. 735. 



Eastern Region : Natal ; Umkomanzi River, 3000 ft., SchlecJder, 6701 ! 

 Kearly allied to and perhaps only an extreme form of C, cordata, Harv. 



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XXXVIII. TRAGIA, Linn. 



Floiccrs monoecious, rarely dioecious ; petals ; disc or obscure 

 Male : Cuhjx closed in bud, splitting into 3, rarely 4-6, vahate lobes. 

 Siamevs normally 3, very rarely fewer or more ; filaments free ; 

 anthers 2-celled ; cells parallel, dehiscing longitudinally. Rimi- 

 mentary ovary nnnute or obsolete. Feiutde : Calyx G-partite ; lobes 

 more or less 2-seriately imbricate, palmately lobulate, occasionally 

 lobes 4-5, usually accrescent and indurated in fruit. Ovary 3-celled ; 

 ovules solitary in each cell ; styles 3, more or less distinctly connate 

 at least at the base, entire. Capsule 3-dymous, breaking up into o 

 2-valved cocci. Seeds globose, ecarunculate ; testa crustaceous ^ 

 albumen fleshy ; cotyledons broad, flat. 



Herbs, twining or auberect, usually rather copiously beset with stinging hairs 

 on the stem, leaves and calyx ; leaves alternate, stipulate ; racemes leaf-oppos*^^ 

 or terminal with many male flowers above and usually few basal female flowers , 

 bracts small, persistent. 



DiSTHTB. Species about 100, spread throughout the warmer regions of both 

 hemispheres. 



Male flo\s ers in glomerules or cymules to each bract ; racemes 



1 -sexual : 



Stems short, erect; leaves isessile (1 ) Eo^ersii 



Stems long, twining; leaveo loug-petioled (2) Sonderi. 



Mule flowers solitary to each bract ; racemes usually 

 2-sexual : 



Female calyx regularly 0-partite ; 



Stems short, erect or ascending, not twining : 



Petiole ; leave^^ deeply laeiniately lobed ( 3 ) incisifolia. 



Petiole \-\ in. lung ; leaves shortly serrate ( 4 ) minor. 



Stems long, twining ; petiole 1 in. long or lunger : 



Female calyx-segments 2-3-lobulate on each wide ... ( 5 ) Okanyua. 



Female calyx-segments 8-10-lobulate on each side ... ( <j ) nataleusis. 



Female calyx normally 3-partite but often with 1 (rarely 

 more than 1) smaller irregular segment added : 

 Leaves obtuse, subsessile, \ in. long or less (7 ) coUinft- 



