508 EUPiiOKBiACEyK (rraiii). [Tragia. 



ALsu in German Suutli-West Africa and in Rliodcsia. 



A ver>^ well-marked Hpeeies, most nearly allied to T. rupestns, Sond., of which 

 it has by Miiller been treated as a variety, but better looked upon as distinct. 

 Some of Burke's and Zeylier's original specimens are dioecious as dej^cribed by 

 Sunder ; usually, however, the racemes have both male and female flowers. 

 Within the species two very distinct forms occur ; in one, represented by Burke, 

 lOG, Zeyher, 1523, Leendtrtz, 14S2 and 2165, the stems are densely hispid; in 

 the other the stems are only sparingly hispid. The two, however, do not other- 

 wise differ and are hardly entitled to be treated as distinct varieties. The 

 hispid form is that originally described as T. dioka, Sond., the less hispid form 

 ia that originally described as T. SckinzU, Pax. 



9. T. meyeriana (Miill. Arg. in DO. Prodr. xv. ii. 9o8 as to 



Gueinzius' plant and excl. var. (3 glalrata) ; a herb with woody 

 base ; stems erect or ascending, simple or branched, never twining) 

 8-16 in. high, pubescent and copiously armed with stinging bristles; 

 leaves long-petioled, membranous, triangular-ovate, acute, base rather 

 deeply and usually widel}- cordate, margin closely and strongly 

 toothed, lJ-2^ in. long, l\-2 in. wide, above rather sparingly beset 

 with stinging bristles, more densely bristly (especially on the nerves) 

 beneath, very rarely almost glabrous ; petiole rather densely bristly, 

 f— 1 in. long ; stipules spieading, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, 

 bristly, 2-2 ^r lin. long; racemes terminal or leaf-opposed and sub- 

 terminal, with many male flowers solitary to their bracts above and 

 1-3 basal female flowers ; peduncle and rhachis densely setose and 

 bristly ; male bracts ovate-lanceolate, entire, setose and bristly, 

 '2 lin. long; female bracts ovate-lanceolate, with margin usually 

 minutely toothed, bristly, 3 lin. long ; male calyx S-partite, very 

 large for the genus ; lobes ovate, acute, nearly glabrous ; stamens 

 3, rarely 4-5 ; filaments longer than the anthers, incurved above ; 

 anthers subconnivent ; female calyx 3 partite, with occasionally a 

 fourth smaller lobe added ; lobes wide-oblong or suborbicular, palm- 

 ately 6-8-lobulate on each side, much shorter than the width of the 

 accrescent strongly indurated rhachis, in fruit ? in. long; ovary 

 puberulous and setose ; styles 3, connate below in a short column, 

 free above ; capsule 3-coccous, .\ in. across ; cocci sparingly bristly, 

 subglobose; seeds globose. T. Bolusii, 0. Kiintze, Bev, Gen. P/- 

 iii. ii. 293. 



Coast Region: East Londun Div. ; East London, Wood in Ilerh. Galpin, 321/1 

 near the mouth of the Kiutza Elver, 50 ft., Galpin, 6558 ! Komgha Div. ; Prospect 

 Farm, Komgha, Flanagan, 358 ! near Ivoragha, 2000 ft., Flanagan, 754 ! 



Eastern Region : Tran^kei ; Kentani, 1000 ft., Miss Piyhry 186 ! Tembulaiid ; 

 azeia, Kli}>kiantz, 2000 ft., Baar, 458 I near the Quinancu Kiver, 2900 ft-, 

 Bolus, 10286! Griqnaland East ; Insiswa Itauge, SchlecMerl Clydesdale, 2500 ft., 

 Tyson, 1060! and in MacOu:aii 1- Bolus, IJah. Austr.-Afr. 1233! Natal ; near 

 Durban, Gacinzius I Sanderson. 802 1 Kstconrt, 4000 ft,, Marshall 1 Inanda, Wood, 

 41t) I Drakensberg, Tngela liiver, Colenso, Rfhmann, 71(>7 ! Lancaster HiH* 

 Vryheid, Bnrtt-Dactj, 11441)1 Krantz Klouf, LjOO ft., SfJdechter, 8204 1 near 

 Ladysmith, 3500 ft., Wood, 7570 I Weenen, :5000-r)0()0 ft., Sutherland 1 



This very distinct species is most nearly allied to T, dnrhanensis, 0. Ivuutze, 

 from which it is most readily distin^ished by its erect iubtead of climbing habit.^ 

 The name T, niet/eriana, which must be used instead of the name T. Bolusit 



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