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integra vel subundulata, 4-6 cm. longa, 2-4'5 em. lata, utrinque 
densius strigosa nec tamen aculeata; petiolus patenter pubescens, 
majorem subtendens, Sepala maris saepius 3, nonnunquam 4, 
snborbicularia, obtusa, extra strigosa. Stamina 3, raro 4, centrum 
floris occupantia ; antherae sub anthesin reflexae, horizontales. 
Flos femineus haud visus. 
Mapagascar. Central Madagascar, Baron, 1748, 3951. 
Very similar to 7. imerinica, but the leaves are less prom- 
inently reticulate, densely strigose but not at all aculeate, do 
not become so firmly papery when full grown, and are of larger size. 
Almost at the base of the racemes, in place of some distance above 
the base, ‘occur large bracts (reduced leaves) exactly like the female 
bracts of J’. imerinica, These leafy bracts, however, in place of 
subtending a glomerulus of female flowers as in J. ¢merinica, 
subtend solitary male flowers with longer pedicels and of larger 
size than the male flowers in the glomerules which occupy the 
remainder of the raceme. 
1407. Tragia (Agirta) imerinica, Prain [ Euphorbiaceae-Crotoneae]; 
species 7’. Bowvinianae, Muell.-Arg., affinis sed foliis minoribus 
et bracteis flores femineos subtendentibus latissimis foliaceis suborb- 
icularibus vel subreniformibus differt. 
Frutex ramis suberectis lignosis parce pubescentibus vel glabris, 
ramulis parce puberulis strictis vel raro volubilibus. Folia breve 
petiolata, membranacea demum papyracea, triangulari-ovata, acuta 
vel obtusa, mucronulata, basi parum cordata vel truncata, margine 
distanter minutissime glanduloso-denticulata, 2°5-3 cm. lon 
dentes. Sepala maris saepius 3, nonnunquam 4, suborbicularia, 
b . Stamina 3, raro 4, centrum 
occupantia ; antherae sub anthesin reflexae, horizontales. Sepala 
floris feminei 6, lanceolata, acuta, extra pubescentia, sub anthesin 
ovario absque stylo aequilonga: Ovarium dense velutinum ; styli 
. dimidio inferiore in columnam connati. Capsula juvenilis tantum 
. ra, 
Mapvaeascar. Central Madagascar. B 872. North-West 
Madagascar, Baron, 4989. ce = ae : a8 
