Tragia.] cxxii. euphorbiace^ (prain). 969 



Stems long, slender, twining ; male flowers 

 solitary to their bracts, 

 f Male bracts ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, 

 tbeir margins glabrous or ciliate but 

 not glandular; female bracts like 

 the male bracts but somewhat larger. 

 Leaves ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, 

 almost glabrous ; lobules of female 

 calyx-segments very short. 

 Leaves shallow-cordate at the base ; 

 bracts with flnely ciliolate mar- 

 gins ; filaments erect . • 43. T. angtistifolia. 

 Leaves deep-cordate and minutely to 

 distinctly subhastate-auricolate 

 at the base ; bracts with glabrous 

 or very sparingly ciliolatemargins ; 

 filaments incurved . . .42. T. kirkiana. 

 Leaves ovate or ovate-oblong, deep- 

 cordate at the base. 

 Lobules of female calyx-segments ex- 

 ceeding in length the width of the 

 rhachis; leaves sparingly bristly. 39. T. Scheffleri. 

 Lobules of female calyx-segments not 

 longer than the width of the 

 rhachis ; leaves very bristly .38. T. furialis. 

 f fMale bracts trangular-ovate, with margin 

 ciliate and finely glandular; female 

 bracts with finely toothed margin; 

 leaves from triangular-ovate to lanceo- 

 late and from obscurely lobed to sub- 

 hastate-auriculate at the base ; some- 

 times almost glabrous, sometimes 

 densely pubescent and bristly ; con- 

 nective glandular . . . . 40. :r. adenanthera. 



1. T. volubilis, Linn. Sp. PL ed. i. 080. Stems long, slender, 

 twining, armed with stinging hairs. Leaves distinctly to long petioled, 

 membranous, oblong-lanceolate or oblong, acute, base rounded, truncate 

 or shallow wide-cordat«, margin serrate, 2-3 in. long, |-H in. wide, 

 slightly bristly especially on the nerves on both surfaces, otherwise 

 glabrous; petiole i-lj in. long; stipules lanceolate, erect, IJ lin. 

 long. Racemes lateral, slender, rather lax, 1-1 J in. long, with a solitary 

 female flower at the base on a pedicel as long as the rest of the 

 raceme ; bracts lanceolate, ascending, pubescent, persisting. Male sepals 

 3, ovate. Stamens 3, or casually 1-2 ; anthers extrorse. Female calyx- 

 segments 6, lanceolate, very slightly accrescent. Ovary setose ; styles 

 3, glabrous, united below in a column. Capsule o-coccous, sparingly 

 setose, i in . across ; cocci subglobose. Seeds globose, pale straw-coloured, 

 mottled with brown.— Mull. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. ^^Sb ; Hiern in 

 Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. D84 ; Durand (k De Wild, in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. 

 xxxvii. ; lOG ; De Wild. & Durand, Reliq. Dewevr. ii. 212 ; Th. it He). 

 Durand, Syll. Fl. Congol. 498. T. pedunculata, Beauv. Fl. Owar. et 

 Benin, i. 00, t. 54. 



