972 cxxii. EUPHORBiACEiE (prain). [Trugia. 



stinging hairs. Leaves distinctly petioled, membranous, obovate-lan- 

 ceolate to oblong, shortly and acutely acuminate, base truncate or very 

 shallow wide-cordate, margin shortly and coarsely toothed rarely entire, 

 1^-2 in. long, §-£ in. wide, rather sparingly beset with long spreading 

 bristly hairs on both surfaces, usually more densely bristly on the 

 nerves beneath, otherwise glabrous ; petiole J-J in. long, densely setose 

 with spreading bristly hairs ; stipules lanceolate, erect, 4-J in. long, 

 beset with bristly hairs externally. Racemes lateral, slender, rather 

 dense, |— | in. long, with a naked, slender, patently hirsute peduncle 

 ^-J in. long, with several male flowers above and 1-2 basal female 

 flowers, pedicels in both sexes much shorter than and solitary to the 

 bracts ; male bracts obovate or spathulate, obtuse, 1-2 lin. long, pubes- 

 cent ; female bracts orbicular-ovate, o-lobed ; bracteoles obovate, obtuse. 

 Male sepals 8, ovate. Stamens 3 ; filaments short. Female calyx-seg- 

 ments G, obovate-rhomboid, membranous, at length accrescent but 

 hardly coriaceous, 3 lin. long, pubescent but not hispid ; rhachis rather 

 narrow, twice, as long as the rather small orbicular-oblong terminal 

 laminula, and either without any lateral lobules or in some flowers the 

 sepals alternately without lateral lobules and with one pair of minute 

 lateral lobules immediately subtending the terminal laminula. Ovary 

 rather densely pubescent ; styles o, pubescent, united for half their 

 length. Capsule 3-coccous, rather sparingly strigose, J in. across ; cocci 

 subglobose. Seeds globose, dark brown with white spots. — DC. Prodr. xv. 

 ii. 945. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone: without precise locality, Smenihmann ! 

 Aj'zelius ! 



This species is described by Miiller as having the female calyx-lobes without 

 lobules on their rhachis. Hut in the specimens of the original gathering in the 

 Paris Herbarium, some of the female tlowers have the calyx- lobes ot one series with 

 only a terminal laminula, while the alternating caly.x-lobes of the other series hiive a 

 solitary pair of lateral hjbules close to the base of the laminula. Except as regards 

 its female calyx, this species agrees very closely with T. Chevalieri, Beille. 



6. T. Chevalieri, Jkille in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, Ivii. Mem. viii. 

 12(1. Stems long, slender, twining, armed with stinging hairs. Leaves 

 shortly to distinctly petioled, membranous, ovate-lanceolate to lanceo- 

 late, acute, base shortly cordate, margin entire or faintly undulate, 

 2J-4 in. long, j-l| in. wide, sparingly beset with bristly white hairs 

 on both surfaces; petiole \-\\ in. long, densely bristly pilose ; stipules 

 lanceolate, erect, \--\ in. long, hispid. Racemes lateral, slender, rather 

 dense, J-J in. long, with a naked slender pubescent peduncle J-J in. 

 long, with several male flowers above and 1-2 basal female flowers ; 

 pedicels in both sexes shorter than and solitary to their bracts ; male 

 bracts oblong-subspathulate, obtuse, 1-2 lin. long, hispid, membranous ; 

 female bracts orbicular-ovate, 3-lobed ; bracteoles ovate, acute, hispid. 

 Male sepals 3, ovate, pubescent on both sides and hispid externally. 

 Stamens 3 ; filaments short. Female calyx-segments 6, ovate-lanceo- 

 late, membranous, 3-4 lin. long, pubescent and hispid on both sides, 

 the margin in the upper third entire, in the lower two-thirds with 4-G 



