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Tmgia:] euphokbiace.e (Praiu). 505 



female bracts ovate-lnnceolate, entire, pilose, 2 liii, long ; male calyx 

 ^ 3-partito; lubes lanceolate, acute, nearly glabrous ; stamens 3, rather 



wide-based, incurved above; female calyx 6-partite ; lobes 2-soriate, 

 unequal, 3 wide-oblong, 3 ovate4anceolate, pinnately G-lobulate on 

 each side, hispid exlernally, glabrous within, lobules shorter than 

 the width of the accrescent indurated rhachis, in fruit | in. loTig ; 

 ovary hispid and sparingly setose; styles 3, connate below in a dis- 

 tinct column, free above ; capsule 3-coccous, ^ in. across ; cocci 

 sparingly setose, subglobose ; seeds globose. Baill Adansoula, iii. 162. 

 T. nipestris, y minor ^ JIulL Arg. in DC. Prodr, xv. ii. OiO, partly ; as 

 to ZeijJier^ 1524, only. 



Vab. 3, longifolia (Praia) ; leaves rather narrow-Luiceolate, 1^-2 in. long, ^ in. 

 wide, otherwise as in the type. 



Kalahakx ItEOiON : Tranftjvaal ; Magalies L*iver, Bvrkel Znjhcr, 152.11 Pre- 

 toria Dist./ Pretoria, Crawky, 41441 Aapies Pooii, Rchmann, 4121, partly! 

 Wontlerboomi)oort, Rchmann, 4555! Pinudeiie near Irene, Burtt-Davy, 23151 

 Crocodile Eiver, Wilms, 1325! Var. ^: Swaziland; Bremmer^dorp, 2200 ft., 

 Bartt-Davy, 3004 I 



5. T. Okanyua (Pax in Bull. Ilerk Boiss. vi. 735); a herb ^vith 

 woody base ; stems twining^ 1-6 ft. high, much branched, pubescent 

 and armed with stinging bristles; leaves distinctly petioled, mem- 

 branouSj ovate, auriculate-subcordate and usually almost S-lobate, 

 central lobe generally elongated, acute^ basal lobes rounded, some- 

 times triangular-ovate, with a shallow lateral sinus, base cordate, 

 margin crenate-serrate, l|-2i in. long, l^j-H in. wide at the base, 

 hispid or puberulous and sparingly bristly especially on the nerves 

 of both surfaces ; petiole 1 in. long, pubescent and sparingly bristly ; 

 stipules broadly lanceolate, spreading, pubescent and bristly, 1^ lin. 

 long; racemes lateral, leaf-opposed, peduncled, 1-2 in. long; 

 peduncle hispid and sparingly bristly, with many male flowers 

 above and usually 2 basal female flowers ; male bracts ovate- 

 lanceolate, entire, about 1 lin. long, finely hispid ; female bracts 

 2-3-lobed, ovate, 1^-2 lin. long, hispid; pedicels in both sexes 

 solitary to and shorter than their bracts ; male calyx 3-partite ; 

 lobes ovate, obtuse ; stamens 3 ; filaments longer than the anthers ; 

 female calyx 6-partite, 2-seriate; lobes pinnately 2-3-lacinulate on 

 each side, rhachis accrescent, indurated in fruit, at length \ in. long, 

 of one series obovate, of the other series rather narrow -lanceolate ; 

 ovary hispid above ; styles 3, united more than half-way in a distinct 

 basal column, free above; capsule 3-coccous, \ in, across; cocci sub- 

 globose, nearly glabrous ; seeds globose. Train in Dyer, Fl. Trap. 

 Afr, vi, i, 9SG. T. migudifolia, Pax in Enyl Pfi, Ost-Afr. G. 239, 

 partly^ and in Pcunn, Kmene-Samh. Exped. 283 ; not o/Benik T. cor- 

 difoUa, N. E. Br. in Kew Bnlhtin, 1909, lil; not of Vald, nor of 

 Bentk T. madandensis, S, Moore in Journ, Linn. Soe. xl. 203. 



Kalahari PiKgion : Transvaal ; slopes of Ma^etane, Junod, 1051 ! 

 Also widely spread in southern Tropical Africa. 



