Tracfia. monoecia triandkia. 575 



6. S. setigei'it. R. 



Culms erect, from four to five feet high, three-sided, crowd- 

 ed with h)ng-, tiippriiig, smooth, three-nerved leaves. Pani- 

 cles terminal, and from the exterior axil Is, oblong, under 

 each ramification a long- filiform bristle-like bracte. 



A native of Chittaoonjr. 



TRAGI A. Schreb. gen. N. 1410. 



JUa/e cali/x three-parted. Corol none. Female calyx 

 six-leaved. Corol none. Capsule tricoccus. 



1. T. cannah'ma. Willd. iv. 326. 



Shrubby, twining-. Leaves hastate, three-lobed, serrate. 

 Female cabjx pinnatifid. 



Croton hastatnm. Syst. Veg. But I strongly suspect Bur- 

 man's figure which he has given for C. hastatum is a mis- 

 take. 



Teling. Doolya-gunda. 



This species is perennial, from three to four feet high, a 

 native of dry barren ground about Samulkota. It flowers 

 all the year round. 



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 lono-. 

 Stipules half lanceolate. Racemes leaf-opposed, pednncled, 

 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. Female flowers below the male, generally 

 two on each raceme. Calyx six-leaved ; leajlets pinnatifid, 

 hairy. 



The hair of this plant stings fully as bad as the common 

 nettle. Cattle do not eat any part of it. 



