Tragia.] euphokbiace^ (Praiii), 511 



and Adansonia^ iii. 162; not of Thnnh, 1\ capensis, ^, E. Meyer^ 

 he, 226. T. meyertana, MiilL Arg. in DO. Prodr, xv. ii. 938, as to 

 tJip Drege specimen only. T, rneyenana, ^ glahrata, MiilL Arg, I.e. 



Coast Region : East London Div. ; East London, 50 ft., Bolm I Albany DIv. ; 

 HowiBons Poort, Williamson ! Bathurst Div. ; near the sea, Mrs. Barhcr^ 49(> I 

 Konigha Div. ; near (he niouth of the Kei River, Flanagan, 437 I 



Eastekn Region : Pondoland ; near the mouth of the Umsikaba River, Thhje 1 



Egosa Forest, Beyrich^ 10 ! and without precise locality, Baehmann^ 77*1 1 Natal ; 



near Durban, Drege, 4G05 ! Sanderson, imW Kuntzel Wibns, 2273! SchkcJder, 



277H! Rehmann, 8805, partly! Wood, 2802! 0343! Umkomaas, Engler, 2571 a! 



Between the Rivers Umzinikulii and Umkomanzi, Drege I Shafton, Hnwick, Mrs. 



Ilutton^ 12! Higher Tugela, Gerrard, IK),")! without precise locality, Gerrard, 



r)22 ! Delagoa Bay; Louren(,;o Marques, Mrs. Howard, 71 I Forbes, 47! Junod^ 

 liiS! 



Verv' nearly related to T. raetjerhina, Midi. Arg., with which it has been miited 

 by Miiller, but readily distinguished by being scan dent and in having male flowers 

 which are less than half the size. As T, capensis, Thimb. , is not a Tragia, the 

 name 7\ capensis, E. Meyer, associated by Miiller with this plant as a synonym 

 and employed, though without description, by Meyer, Sonder and Eaillon in 

 previous publications, might be used to designate this species. It seems, however, 

 less ambiguous to employ the name suggested by Kuntze to whom we are indebted 

 for the first intelligible account of this species and of its ally. 



XXXIX. MAPROUNEA, Aubl. 



Flowers monoecious; petals 0; disc 0, Male: Calyx shortly 

 2-3-lobedj slightly imbricate in bud. Stamens 1-3, usually 2, 

 exserted ; filaments united below, free above ; anthers oblong ; cells 

 parallel, dehiscing longitudinally. Rudimentary omry 0. Female : 

 Calyx 3-h>bed. Ocary 3-celled ; ovules solitary in each cell; styles 

 connate in a short column below, above free, entire. Capsule sub- 

 glubose or slightly trigonous, 3-coccous ; cocci 2-valved. Seeds 

 obovoid, with a large fleshy caruncle; albumen fleshy; cotyledons 

 broad, flat. 



s 



Trees or shrubs, everywhere glabrous ; leaves alternate ; spikes with many male 

 flowers in a dense-ovoid or subglobose head terminating specialised contracted 

 twigs, with usually 1-3 pedicelled female flowers at the base ; male bracts small, 

 imbricate, glandular at the base on each side, each 3-r)-flowered ; female bnicts 

 1-flowered. 



DrsTRiB. Species about five, two American and three in Tropical Africa ; one 

 of the latter extending to the south of the tropic. 



1. M. africana (Mull. Arg. in DO. Prodr. xv. ii 1191, partly 

 and as to fruit only) ; a tree, 15-30 ft. high, everywhere glabrous; 

 ultimate twigs passing into the inflorescence, up to J in. long; 

 leaves short-petioled, papery and at length somewhat coriaceous, 

 oblong or ovate-oblong, bluntly acute or acuminate, sometimes 

 rounded cuspidate or rounded obtuse, base rounded, margin entire, 

 l|-2i in, long, f-U in. wide, dark shining green above, pale gi'een 



