576 MONOECIA TRIANDRIA,. Tragia. 
2. T. involucrata. Willd, iv. 324. 
Shrubby, twining. Leaves oblong, three-nerved, serrate. 
Female calyx pinnatifid. : 
Schorigenam, Rheed. Mal. ii, t. 39. 
Beng. Bichitee. 
_Ricinocarpus Zeylanica hirsuta. Burm, Zeyl. t. 92. 
A perennial twining plant, a native of shady places, bedges, 
&c. where the soil is good. Flowers during most part of the. 
year, a. 
Siem short, woody. Branches twining, the tender parts 
covered with much hair. Leaves scattered, petioled, oblong, 
three-nerved, pointed, serrate, hairy. Stipules cordate, Ra- 
cemes as in cannabina, but smaller, and seldom more than 
one female flower on each, Bractes and flowers both male — 
and female, as in cannabina. 
Note. The hairs of this plant sting equally as muchas the 
- former, nor will cattle eat it. — 
I have not observed any other in fadias to compare with 
Willdenow’s cordata, and hispida, they are ——z the 
_ same, or only varieties of one species. 
3. T. Mercurialis. Willd. iv. 324. 
Aunual, erect, ramous. Leaves ovate cordate, serrate. 
Racemes drooping. inner three leaflets of the female calyx 
filiform. 
_ Pee cupameni. Rheed. Mal. x. t. 82. 
_ Asmall annual plant, it is much like Acaly pha indica, Ee 
pearing in flower during the hot season. 
Stem erect, branchy, smooth, about a foot high. Leaves 
nltereiste, petioled, from cordate to oblong-ovate, serrate, 
smooth, from one to two and a half inches long, and one to 
two broad. Petioles shorter than the leaves, channelled. 
Racemes axillary, solitary, as long“or longer than the leaves, — 
filiform, bowing, few-flowered. _Bractes remote, solitary, 
each embracing one, long-pedicelled, female flower, and se- 
veral short pedicelled male ones, MALE FLOWERS. Calyx 
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