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Very nearly allied to M. Barteri, but smaller in all its parts and 
readily distinguished by the truly cuneate leaf bases which do not 
form two small auriculate lobules, with usually a distinct gland on 
their upper surface, which characterise the leaf bases of M. Barteri. 
1084. Tragia (Tagira) Benthami, Baker [Euphorbiaceae-Cro- 
toneae]; species JZ. cordifoliae, Vahl, affinis sed segmentis calycis 
feminei pancioribus—utrinque 2-3 nee 6-10—facillime distinguenda. 
Caulis elongatus, volubilis, gracilis, glaber vel parce hispidus. 
Folia \onge petiolata, 5-10 em. longa, 3°5-5 cm. lata, acuta, argute 
dentata, basi saepissime alte cordata, membranacea, utrinque parce 
hispida ; stipulae ovato-lanceolatae. Racemi laterales terminalesque, 
breviter pedunculati, 3-5 cm. longi; alabastra mascula globosa, 
1 mm. lata ; bracteae ovatae vel lanceolatae. lores feminei 1-2. 
Sepala 6, viridia, matura 8 mm. longa, dense hispida ; rhachis 
anguste lanceolata segmentis linearibus utrinque 2-3. Styli dimidio 
inferiore connati. Capsula hispida, 8 mm. lata ; cocci globosi.— 
T. cordifolia, Benth. in Hook. FJ. Nig. 501; Muell.-Arg. in DC. 
Prodr., xv. 2, 944; Hiern, Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. 984; nec Vahl. 
Tropical, Arrica. Upper Guinea; Ashanti, Cummins; 
Fernando Po and Cape Coast, Vogel; Cameroons, Mann, 1255 ; 
Zenker §& Staudt, 516; Abeokuta, Millen, 80.  Nile-land ; 
Uganda, Dawe, 5. Lower Guinea: Angola, Monteiro; Loanda, 
Gossweiler, 427 : Golungo Alto, Welwitsch, 381. Mozambique Dist. : 
Nyasaland ; Namasi, Cameron. 
1085. Sebastiania inopinata, Prain [Euphorbiaceae-Crotoneae] ; 
species americanae §. multirameae, Mart., quam maxime affinis et 
ab ill. Muellero cum ejus varietate Luschnathiana conjuncta, differt 
tamen foliis magis acuminatis, filamentis brevioribus basi distincte 
connatis, 
Frutex, 2°5-3°5 m. altus, undique glaber, ramis gracilibus patulis 
teretibus. olia breviter petiolata, ovata vel elliptico-ovata,- 
distincte acuminata, basi rotundata, eglandulosa, margine integra, 
subcoriacea, 6-8 cm. longa, 3-4°5 em. ie supra subnitida, subtus 
pallidiora, nervis utrinque circiter 6; petiolus 6-8 mm. longus. 
Spicae axillares, 1:5 em. longae, multirameae, graciles, cylindraceae ; 
bracteae masculae ovatae, acutae, margine undulatae, 3-5-florae. 
Calycis lobi 2 vel 3, suborbiculares, margine undulati. Stamina 
2 vel 3, filamentis brevibus connatis—S. multiramea var. Lusch- 
nathiana, Muell~Arg., in DC. Prody., xv. 2, 1177 partim et 
quoad spp. Africana tantum. 
TropicaL Arrica. Upper Guinea: Cameroons; banks of 
the Cameroon River, Mann, 755, 2225; Bipinde, Zenker, 3225. 
This species is so like and so closely allied to Stillingia Lusch- 
nathiana, Baill. (Sarothrostachys Luschnathiana, K1.), that the late 
r. Mueller has treated it as identical with that Brazilian plant, 
which he further considers to be a variety of Sebastiania multiramea, 
a species widely spread in that country. The leaves of the African 
plant differ very little in shape from those of its Brazilian ally, but 
they are more rounded at the base, have a more distinctly prolonged 
acuminate apex and rather fewer pairs of lateral nerves. 
differences in the male flowers of the two, however, render it 
advisable to keep them apart. The female flowers of the African 
species have not yet been communicated, — , 
