Tragia 



EUPHOBBIACE^E 



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two on each side at the base, with stipules. Flowers monoecious 

 without petals. Racemes axillary (in T. volubilis) usually with 

 male and female flowers, the latter at the base. Flowers usually 

 solitary in the axil of a bract. Male flowers : Calyx globose, 

 closed in bud, valvately 3 (5-)parted in flowering. Disk none 

 or obscure. St.-nnens '>, - or 1. Rudiment of ovary none or 

 minute. Female flowers: Sepals usually 0, imbricate. Ovary 

 3-celled ; styles 3, united into a column, undivided at the 

 apex ; ovules solitary. Capsule splitting up into three L'-\ alved 

 cocci. Seeds without a caruncle ; endosperm fleshy ; cotyledons 

 broad, flat. 



Specimens over 100, widely dispersed through the tropics, 

 and extending to South Africa and the southern states of Xorth 

 America. 



T. volubilis L. Sp. PL 980 (1753) & Amcen. v. 382; Sic. 01*. 

 But. :'>r>3 ; Grisel). Fl. Br. W. Lid. 48; NnU. Arg. in DC. Prodr. 

 xv. j>t. '2, 935; Urb. Si/mb. Ant. iv. 348; Prain in Fl. Trop. Afr. 

 vi.pt. 1, 969. T. scandens &c. Browne Hist. Jam. 336. Urtica 

 racemosa scandens etc. Sloane Cat. 38 fe Hist. i. 123, t. 82, f. 1. 

 (Fig. 100.) The type, a specimen grown in Hort. Upsal., is in 

 Herb. Linn., also a specimen presumably from Browne. 



Fig. loo. ; i . 



A, Part of branch with fuliagc leaf ami .', 1'Viiinl.- with a sepal rcni 



int!n BOence X l'. 



B, Mai.' ll.iwer X l'. l>. 'oi'.-us X 'J. 



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