606 EUPHORBIACE.^. (Plain). [Tragia. 



6. T. natalensis (Sond. in Linn?ea, xxiii. 107); a herb with 

 woody base; stems twining, 6-10 ft. long, much branched, sparingly 

 pubescent with somewhat reflexed hairs and armed with stinging 

 bristles ; leaves long-petioled, membranous, ovate or ovate-oblong, 

 acuminatej base rounded or shallow-cordate, margin closely and 

 sharply serrate, 2-4 in. long, 1-2 in. wide, uniformly and sparingly 

 pubescent throughout and bristly on the nerves on both surfaces ; 

 petiole patently pubescent and bristly, 1-3 in. long ; stipules linear- 

 lanceolate, ^ in. long, reflexed, pubescent ; racemes lateral, 

 peduncled, 1^ in. long; peduncle pubescent and sparingly bristly, 

 with many male flowers above and 1-2 basal female flowers; male 

 bracts lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate or subspathulate, acute, entire 

 or the lowest sometimes dentate : female bracts large, subreniform 

 or suborbicular, their margin dentate ; pedicels in both sexes shorter 

 than and solitary to the bracts ; male calyx 3-partite ; lobes ovate, 

 obtuse ; stamens 3 ; filaments as long as the anthers ; female calyx 

 6-partite; lobes pinnately 8-10-lacinulate on each side, rhachis 

 lanceolate, indurated in fruit, at length ^ in. long ; ovary hispid ; 

 styles 3, united almost to the apex in a slender narrow -infundibuli- 

 form tube, the short triangular reflexed stigmas alone free ; capsule 

 3-coccous, -^ in. across ; cocci subglobose, hispid ; seeds globose. 

 Balll. Adansonia, iii. 162; MilU. Arg, in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 91^; 

 Prain in Dyer, FL Trojp. Afr. vi. i, 974. T. involucraiUj Jacq, ex 



E. Meyer in Drege, Ztvei Ffl. Dociimenfe, 226 ; BailL Etud. Ghu 

 EupJwrh. 461 ; 7iot of Linn, T. mitis, y ohlongifolia^ Mitll. Arg. w 

 Flora, 1864, 435, and in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 942. T. amhigiuh 

 S, Moore, and T. amhigua, var, urticans^ S. Moore in Journ, Linn. Soc. 



Bot xl. 202. 



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Eastkhn I^kgion: Tran^kei ; Keiitani, Mauuljie, 1000 ft., Miss PajUr, 12571 

 Pondolaud; near St. Johns Eiver, Dvegel Port St. John, 50 ft., Galpin, 34t>2 [ 

 Xatal ; Inanda, Wood, 711 1 Ingoma, Gerrard, 1164 1 and without precise locality, 

 GudnziiiSj 496 ! Gcrravd^ 28 I 



Alsio ill East Tropical Africa. 



7. T. collina (Prain in Kew Bulletin, 1912, 335); a herb with 

 woody base 3 stems erect or ascending, simple or sparingly branched, 



never twining, 4-6 in. high, sparingly to rather copiously pubescent 



and sparingly armed with stinging hairs; leaves subsessile, mem 

 branous, oblong, obtuse, base wide-cuneate or truncate, margin 

 sparingly toothed except at the entire base, lateral teeth small, 

 sometimes obsolete, the rounded apex rather strongly 3-5-toothed, 

 \-\ ill- l<>^g» ^h in, wide, sparingly hirsute and bristly on the 

 nerves on both surfaces; petiole 1 lin. long or less, hirsute and 

 bristly; stipules spreading, lanceolate, hirsute, H lin. long; 

 racemes leaf-opposed and subtermhial, with many male flowers 

 solitary to their bracts above and 1-3 basal female flowers; 

 peduncle and rhachis closely pubescent and sparingly bristly ; n^ale 

 bracts lanceolate, entire, nearly glabrous, 1| lin, long ; female bracts 

 lanceolate, entire, 2 lin. long ; male calyx 3-partite ; lobes ovate, 



