976 cxxii. EUPHORBiACEit; (prain). [Tragia. 



recurved and closely applied to the swollen style-column, at length 

 retracted within the mouth of the columnar tube. Capsule 3-coccous, 

 rather sparingly pilose, J in. across ; cocci subglobose. Seeds globose, 

 dark brown with grey blotches. 



Mozaxnb. Dlstr. German East Africa : Ukitiga; Mount Kirunde, 6500 ft., 

 Goetze, 907 ! British Central Aftica : Xviisalaiul ; Masuku Plateau. 6500-7000 ft., 

 Whyfe, 269 ! 



A very distinct species with a large stylo resembling tliat of Tragia 

 (^Sphaerostiflis) tulasneana, from Madagascar. 



11. T. cannabina, Linn. f. Snppl. 41"). Stems suberect or 

 rambling, not truly twining or only slightly so at the tips, 2-;") ft. 

 high, with spreading branches, glabrous or sometimes hispid upwards 

 and beset with white stinging hairs. Leaves distinctly petioled, 

 membranous, usually deeply o-partite, sometimes r)-partite at the base, 

 occasionally without lateral lobes, central lobe oblong, 2J (n. long, | in. 

 wide, lateral lobes lanceolate, subacute or obtuse, f-H in. long, Jin. 

 wide, unlobed leaves sometimes 1 in. wide, margin throughout coarsely 

 gashed and lobed, the lobules triangular or oblong, base cuneate, 

 glabrous above, bristly on the nerves beneath; petiole J-J in. long, 

 bristly and hispid ; stipules lanceolate, suberect or reflexed, membranous, 

 margin setose, I J lin. long. Racemes androgynous, lateral leaf-opposed, 

 1-2 in. long, on naked more or less bristly peduncles 2-3 in. long, with 

 numerous rather lax male flowers above and 2-)3 basal female flowers; 

 pedicels in both sexes glabrous, solitary to and shorter than their 

 bracts; bracts lanceolate, acuminate, margin setose, males 1 lin., 

 females IJ lin, long. Male sepals 3, ovate, glabrous. Stamens 3 ; 

 filaments as long as the anthers. Female calyx-segments G, densely 

 setose when young with white bristles, accrescent and ultimately 

 coriaceous ; rhachis almost glabrous, narrowly lanceolate, \ in. long, 

 pectinately 4-lobulate on each side, lobules lanceolate, all about as long 

 as the terminal lobule, longer than the width of the rhachis, permanently 

 white setose. Ovary densely setose ; styles 3, connate in their lower 

 half, erect or suberect above. Capsule 3-coccous, sparingly adpressed 

 setose, \ in. across ; cocci subglobose. Seeds globose, grey mottled with 

 brown. — Juss. Euphorb. (ien. Tent. t. 15, fig. 49 b; Dalz. ik Gibs. 

 Bomb. Fl. 22S; Cooke, Fl. Pres. Bomb. ii. 622. T. involncrata, var. 

 ca?inahina, Miill. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 044 ; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 

 V. 4f)5 mainly ; Pax in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, vi. 1 84. 



wile X.and. Somaliland : Ogadeu, Roherchi, 338, 390. 421 ; Milniil Valley, 

 Eiva, 283; Guelidi ; on the "Webi Kiver, Hevoil ! Midjourten ; Modie Valley, 

 Eex'oil, 130! Sennar: Meshra Zeraf, Brovn, 1507! Nuer: Shanibe on the Balir- 

 el-Jebel, Brottn, 1613! Nasser, Broun, 1726! Bari country; Lado on the Nile, 

 Datre, 887! British East Africa: Eastern shore of Lake Baringo, 3300 ft., 

 Q-regory ! 



Also in India. 



Var. intermedia, Prain. Stems erect or suberect, 2-3 ft. high, glabrous or 

 pubescent upwards, beset with white stinging hairs. Leaves distinctly petioled, 

 inembranons, usually the lowest deeply 3-partite, but the uppermost sometimes all 



