9(;4 cxxii. 'EVPnoRbi&.CEJE (praix). [Klaineanthus. 



cocci 2-valved, crepitant in dehiscence. Seed large, ovoid, clothed with 

 a yellow fleshy aril, 5 lin. long, 4 liii. wide, 2| lin. thick ; testa brown, 

 shining ; albumen 2-partite ; cotyledons flat, broad, leafy, 3-nerved from 

 the base, 4 lin. long, 3 lin. wide. 



upper Cuinea. Cameroon?: lV.im\de, Zenker, 1754! 1853! 3790! 4204! 

 lower Guinea. Gaboon; Libreville, Klaine, 211 \ 1352! 1941! 2015! 

 2461 ! 2474! 2510! 3200! Sibange, Klaine, 2576! 



7C. TRAGIA, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 329. 



Flowers monoecious, rarely dioecious or polygamous, apetalous. Male : 

 Calyx globose in bud, splitting into o (very rarely 4-5) valvate lobes. 

 Disk or obscure. Stamens normally 3, casually 1-2 or 4-5 ; filaments 

 free ; anthers ovoid or oblong, dorsitixed or nearly basifixed ; cells 2, 

 parallel, dehiscing longitudinally introrsely in all but one African species. 

 Rudimentary • ovary minute or obsolete. Female: Calyx-segments 

 usually either 3 or 6, imbricate, when 6 2-seriate, very rarely 4-5, more 

 or less accrescent in fruit in all but one African species, pinnately or 

 palmately lobulate, very rarely entire or subentire. Ovary 3-celled ; 

 ovules in each cell solitary ; styles 3, connate below in a slender column, 

 very rarely connate throughout in a stout hollow column ; stigmas never 

 partite. Capsule breaking up into 3 2-valved cocci ; cocci subglobose, 

 rarely slightly angled dorsally. Seeds globose, not strophiolate ; testa 

 crustaceous ; albumen fleshy ; cotyledons broad, flat. — Herbs, very 

 rarely shrubby ; stems usually long, slender and twining, rarely shorter 

 and erect, or suberect and rambling upwards, usually more or less 

 copiously beset with stinging bristles on the stems, leaves and female 

 calyx. Leaves alternate, stipulate, usually distinctly petioled and very 

 generally cordate at the base. Racemes lateral leaf -opposed or terminal 

 or both, with almost always a distinct naked peduncle, with many male 

 flowers above and 1-2 (less often 3) basal female flowers; in dioecious 

 species with many male flowers and with comparatively few female 

 flowers respectively. Bracts persistent, the females usually similar to 

 the males but larger, sometimes dissimilar. Pedicels slender, articulate 

 and 2-bracteolate, usually shorter than their bracts ; males generally 

 solitary to their bracts or solitary for the most part but geminate 

 below, less often in 3- flowered glomerules or cy mules ; females in the 

 Tropical African species always solitary to their bracts. 



Species over 100, spread throughout the warmer regions of both hemispheres 



Biisal female pedicel filiform, as long as the male part 

 of the inflorescence; anthers extrorse; female 

 calyx-segments hardly accrescent in fruit . . 1. T. voluhiJis. 



Basal female pediv-el or pedicels short or very short ; 

 anthers introrse; female calyx-segments usually 

 distinctly accrescent in fruit. 

 Racemes 1-sexnal; plants dioecious ; female calyx, 

 where known, 6-partite, 2-scriate. 

 Male flowers solitary to their bracts or only 



