Tragia,] EUPHorbtace^ (Prain). 509 



proposed by Kuutze, is by no meimri appropriate for this erect plant of which Dr^ge 

 does not appear to have gathered or IVfeyer to have distributed specimens. It is 

 true that in some herbaria there are specimeus belongiiig to * Uvhge ■iG05 ' written 

 up by Miiller as T. meyeriana. But these specimens do not represent the erect 

 species collected by Gueinzius and described by Miiller ; they represent the more 

 hispid form of the climbing species described by Midler as T. meyeriana, ^ ijJahvata, 

 afterwards described by Kuntze as T. durhanensiii. 



10. T. rupestris (Sond. in Linnreo,, xxiii. 108) ; a herb with 

 woody base ; stems slender, 2-3 ft. long, erect and much virgately 

 branched below, twining upwards, pubescent and sparingly c'lrmcd 

 with stinging bristles ; leaves distinctly petioledj membranous, ovate- 

 lanceolatej often auriculate-cordate and sometimes almost 3-lobate, 

 acuminate, base distinctly cordate, margin closely toothed^ Hr-2 in. 

 long, |-1^ in. wide, hirsute throughout on l^oth surfaces and rather 

 densely clothed with stinging bristles on the nerves ; petiole 

 pubescent and sparingly bristly, f-l^ i^^- long; stipules lanceolate, 

 reflexed, \\~1 lin. long, pubescent ; racemes leaf-opposed, peduncled, 

 with man^' male flowers and 1—2 basal female flowers ; peduncle and 

 rhachis densely pubescent and sparingly bristly ; male bracts 

 lanceolate, their margin entire, pubescent, 1 lin. long; female bracts 

 ovatCj acute, their margin toothed, 2 lin. long ; pedicels in both 

 sexes short, pubescent, solitary^ to their bracts ; male calyx 3-partite ; 

 lobes orbicularj obtuse, sparingly pubescent ; stamens 3 ; filaments 

 hardly longer than the anthers, incvu^ved ; female calyx usually 

 3'partite with often a fourth smaller lobe added ; lobes oblong, 

 palmately 4-5-lobulate on each side ; lobules lanceolate, shorter than 

 the width of the accrescent coriaceous rhachis, ^ in. long \ ovary 

 densely setose ; styles 3, connate for half their length or more in a 

 distinct column ; capsule 3-coccous, ^ in. across ; cocci vSubglol)ose, 

 rather densely setose; seeds globose. BrtilL Adansonia, iii, 1C2 ; 

 Mail Anj. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 940. 



Kalahari Region : Transvaal ; Mooi River, Zeyher, 152.) ! Burke I Wonder- 

 boom Poort, Hehmann, 4o4S ! Miss Leendertz, 444! Burtt-Davy^ ^b'^X Aa[»ies 

 Poort, Eehmann, 4121, partly ! hills above Aapies River, Rehmann, 4282 ! Pretoria 

 Hills, 4500 ft., Miss LeendeHz, 'yVAhl Potgieters Rust, Miss Leendti^h, 1234 1 

 Boshveld, Elands River and Drift, llekmann, 4971*, partly [ Rustenburg, 4."i00 ft.. 

 Miss Nation, 74 ! without precise locality^ Wahlherg ! Rogers, 1822 ! 



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11. T. wahlbergiana (Prain In Journ. Bot. 1913, 1G9, m obs.); a 

 herb with woody base; stems slender, prostrate or twining, 2-3 ft. 

 long, much branched ; branches slender, puberulous and sparingly 

 armed with stinging bristles ; leaves short-petioled, membranous, 

 triangular-ovate, acute, base rather shallow-cordate, margin closely 

 toothed, 1-1^ Iii. long, l~^ in. wide, with a few stinging bristles on ' 

 the nerves on both surfaces, otherwise glabrous ; petiole puberulous 

 and sparingly bristly, I in. long; stipules lanceolate, reflexed, 

 1-1-^ lin. long, glabrous \ racemes terminal on the branches or leaf- 

 opposed, peduncled, witli many male flowers above and 1-2 basal 

 female f?owers ; peduncle and rhachis puberulous and very sparingly 



