Tra^'a.] Euphorbiacecc. 6 1 



very few; male fl. globose; sep. 3 (or 4), valvate in bud; 

 stam. numerous (over 20), distinct, anth. oblong; pistillode o; 

 fern. fl. : — cal. split down on one side, caducous; ov. 3- or 

 4-celled, with I ovule in each cell, styles 3, long, filiform, free 

 to the base, papillose; fr. globose, hard, indehiscent; seeds 

 3 or 4, ovoid, testa hard. — Sp. 2 ; both in Fl. B. Ind. 



T, nudiflora, L. Sp. PL 1193 (1753). 



Thw. Enum. 272. Muell. Arg. in DC. 1. c. 953. C. P. 2930. 



Fl. B. Ind. V. 423. Wight, Ic. tt. 1870, 71. Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 281. 



A moderate-sized tree; bark smooth, marked with leaf- 

 scars; branchlets stout; young shoots finely stellate-tomen- 

 tose; 1. opp., 6-7 in., ovate, cordate at base, entire, acuminate, 

 glabrous above, finely stellate-hairy on veins beneath, thin, 

 bright green, somewhat 3-nerved at base ; petiole cylin- 

 drical, 2-3 in., finely pubescent; stip. minute, acute, soon 

 falling; male fl. on slender horizontal ped., racemes spicate, 

 4-6 in., buds globose ; sep. valvate, concave ; fem. fl. : — ov. 

 globose, densely stellate-hairy, style thick, erect, stigmas very 

 long, J-f in. ; fr. about h, in., roughish with scattered stellate 

 hairs; seed broad, brown. 



Dry country, rare ; Uma-oya. Fl. May, Oct. ; pale green. 

 Also India and Malaya. 

 Wood white, soft, not durable. 



31. TRAGI A, Linn. 



An evergreen twiner, hispid, with stinging hairs; I. entire, 

 3-lobed or 3-partite; fl. monoecious, apetalous, in terminal 

 axillary and leaf-opposed racemes, male superior, fem. inferior; 

 bracts small or very minute; male fl. : — cal. globose, valvately 

 3-partite; stam. 3, fil. distinct; pistillode o, or 3-fid.; fem.fl. : — 

 sep. 6, imbricate in bud, entire or pinnatifid, accrescent; ov. 

 3-celled, ovules I in each cell ; styles entire, united in a column 

 below; capsule of 3 2-valved cocci; seeds globose, estrophio- 

 late, testa crustaceous, endosperm fleshy, cotyledons broad. — 

 — Sp. about 50; 3 in Fl. B. Ind. 



T. Involucrata, L. Sp. PL 980 (1753). Wel-kahambiliya, S. 



Herm. Mus. 18. Burm. Thes. 202. Fl. Zeyl. n. 340. Moon, Cat. 62. 

 Thw. Enum. 270. C. P. 2099, 2951. 



Fl. B. Ind. V. 465. Burm. Thes. t. 92. 



Stem elongate, slender, twining; 1. 1-4 in., very variable, 

 from linear-oblong to broadly ovate-cordate, acuminate, 



