Tragia,] EUFRORBlAQEJE (Praiu). 507 



apiculate, puberulous externally; stamens 3 ; iilaiTient.s rather longer 

 than the anthers, erect, thickened below ; female calyx ;i-partfte,, 

 lobes suborbicular, pinnately 5-6-lobulate on each side, pubescent 

 externally, glabrous within, lobules lanceolate, as long as tlie widtli 

 of the accrescent indurated rhachis, in fruit ^- in. long ; ovary 

 densely setose ; styles 3, connate for half their length iji a glabrous 

 column, free and recurved above ; capsule 3~coccous, ] in. across ; 

 cocci sparingly setose, slightly angled on the back ; seeds globose. 



Eastern IJegion : Natal ; near Colenso, 4500 ft., Schhchter, 3381 ! near 

 I Pieter.^, 3000-4000 ft., Wood, 8881 1 



A very distinct species. 



8. T. dioica (Sond. in Linmea, xxiii. 109); a herb with woody 

 base ; stems slender, erect or ascending, not twiningj sparingly 

 branched or simple^ 8-12 in. high, closely pubescent and sometimes 

 densely, sometimes very sparingly, armed witii stinging bristles ; 

 leaves short-petioled, membranous, auriculate-subcordate and dis- 

 tinctly 3-lobate, central lobe lanceolate, acute or ficuminate, shortly 

 serrate, lateral lobes rounded oblong, deeply and coarsely toothed, 

 lA-^l^ in. long, f-l|- in. wide at the base, pubescent on both surfaces 

 and densely to sparingly bristly especially on the nerves and prin- 

 cipally beneath; petiole ^-^j- in. long, pubescent and densely to 

 sparingly bristly ; stipules lanceolate, sparingly pubescent, spread- 

 ing or reflexed, 2 lin. long; racemes terminal or lateral, leaf- 

 opposed, usually with many male flowers above and 1-2 basal 

 female flowers, rarely dia^cious with in female plants several 

 female flowers ; peduncle densely pubescent and densely or 

 sparingly bristly ; male bracts lanceolate, 1 lin. long, pubescent ; 

 iemale bracts ovate, acute, entire, pubescent and bristly ; pedicels 

 in both sexes solitary to and shorter than their bracts ; male calyx 

 3-partite, lobes ovate, obtuse or subacute, glabrous; stamens 3; 

 tilaments dilated below, erect, longer than the anthers ; female calyx 

 3-partite, but with at least 1, usually 2-3, sometimes 4 smaller 

 additional lobes, the 3 main-lobes orbicular or oblong, pectinately 

 4-6-lobulate on each side, lobules lanceolate, bristly, rhachis accres- 

 cent and much indurated, at length ^- in. long, J in. wide, additional 

 lobes when present very variable, sometimes many-lobulate, some- 

 times reduced to a single lanceolate lobule ; ovary densely hispid ; 

 styles 3, connate for half their length in a glabrous column, free and 

 recurved above ; capsule 3-coccous, f in. across ; cocci subglobose, 

 hispid; seeds globose. BallL Adansonia, iii. 162; Pnun in Dyer, 

 Fl Troj), A/r, vi. i. 993. J\ rtipestrh, 8 lobaia, Mull Arg. in DC. 

 Prodr, XV. ii. 941, T. Sclimzti, Pax in Ball EerL Boiss. vL 734. 



Kalahaki Kegion: Bechuaaalancl ; Maadji Mountain, Burchell, 2366! slopes 

 of Messeringa Vlei, Seiner, II. 284 I Mafeking, Dupar(^a€t, 13 ! Transvaal ; Macalis- 

 herg liange, Burke, 1061 Zeyher, 1523 1 Boshveld, Elands lUver and Drift, 

 ■Rehmann, 4979, partly ! between Elands River and Klippan, Rfkmann, 5097! 

 Pienaars River, Kooipiat, Miss Leendertz, 76i I Putgieters Rnst, MiSS Zeendertz, 

 1482 ! Moorddrift, Miss Zeendertz, 2165 ! 



