enone sa ad 
Tragia. MONOECIA TRIANDRIA. = =—s_- YH 
6. S. setigera, R. 
Culms erect, from four to five feet high, three-sided, crowd- 
_ ed with long, tapering, smooth, three-nerved leaves. Pani- 
eles terininal, and from the exterior axills, oblong, under 
each ramification a long filiform bristle-like bracte. 
A native of Chittagong. 
TRAGIA. Schreb. gen. N. 1410. 
Male. maliit three-parted. Corol noue. Female calyx 
six-leaved. Corol none. Capsule tricoccus, 
1. T. cannabina. Willd, iv. 326. : 
Shrubby, twining. Leaves hastate, three-lobed, serrate. 
Female calyx pinnatifid. 
Croton hastatum. Syst, Veg. But I strongly suspect Bur- 
man’s figure which he has given for C, hastatum is a mis- 
take, i 
Teling. Doolyagunda, 
This species is perennial, from three to four feet high,a_ 
native of dry barren ground about Samulkota, It flowers 
all the year round. ag 
Stem scarcely any, what there is, is erect, and woody. — 
Branches numerous; the larger ones woody, smooth; the 
smaller ones twining and hairy. Leaves alternate, petioled, 
three-parted, serrate, hairy ; from two to four inches long. 
Stipules half lanceolate. Racemes leaf-opposed, peduncled, 
erect, many-flowered. MALE FLOWERS numerous, round 
the upper part of the raceme, very small, yellow, each three- 
bracted. Filaments half the length of the calyx. Anthers 
‘two-lobed. FrMALe FLowers below the male, generally 
two on each raceme. Calyx six-leaved ; leaflets neem 
natin " 
The pare of. mee cite stings fully as bed soe common 
nettle. —_ do not eat any part of it, 
