980 cxxii. EUPHORBiACE^ (prain). [Tragia. 



with bristles on both surfaces; petioles 1-1 J lin. long, densely pilose 

 and sparingly bristly ; stipules lanceolate, acute, membranous, suberect, 

 1 lin. long, with setose margins and a few hairs on the outer side. 

 Racemes androgynous, terminal on the stem and branches and below 

 leaf-opposed, |-1 in. long, with a basal naked softly pilose peduncle 

 J-^J in. long, with numerous male flowers above and 1 (rarely 2) basal 

 female ; male flowers rather close-set, solitary above, ternate or in very 

 shortly peduncled 3-flowered cymules towards the base ; pedicels pilose, 

 shorter than the bracts in both sexes ; bracts linear-lanceolate, 1-1 J lin. 

 long, similar in both sexes, with densely pilose margins and sparingly 

 pilose outside. Male sepals 3, wide-ovate, acute, sparingly pilose* 

 Stamens 3 ; filaments longer than the anthers. Female calyx-segments 6, 

 alternately ovate-lanceolate and wide-ovate, sparingly pilose externally, 

 accrescent and at length coriaceous, 4-5 lin. long, margin pectinately 

 4-lobulate on each side, lobules short, lanceolate-triangular, densely 

 setose. Ovary densely pilose ; styles 3, very shortly connate at the 

 base. Capsule 3-coccous, very sparingly adpressed-pilose, J in. across ; 

 cocci subglobose. Seeds globose, brown mottled with grey. 



nxozamb. Bistr. Rhodesia: near Salisbury, 5000 ft., Hand, 64:4:1 1387 r 

 Etiffler, 3073 ! Marshall ! 



Nearly related to T. cordifolia^ Vahl, and no doubt the southern repi'escntative 

 of tliat species, but readily distinguished therefrom by its erect habit and its much 

 shorter petioles. 



16. T. cordifolia, FaAZ, /S'2/7?i6. i.76. Stems long, slender, twining, 

 finely puberulous, without stinging hairs. Leaves distinctly to long 

 petioled, membranous, ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, rarely triangular- 

 ovate, long-acuminate, base shallow- to deep-cordate, margin strongly 

 and sharply serrate, 2J-4 in. long, |-1J (rarely '2) in. wide, puberulous 

 and sparingly to copiously bristly on the nerves on both surfaces 

 but especially beneath ; petiole J-2J in. long, puberulous and sparingly 

 to copiously bristly ; stipules lanceolate, spreading or reflexed, gla- 

 brous, IJ lin. long. Racemes terminal on the stems and branches^ 

 androgynous, slender, rather lax, H--J in. long, with a naked 

 glabrous or sparingly bristly rather stiflf peduncle \-2 in. long, with 

 numerous male flowers above and a solitary basal female ; pedicels in 

 both sexes solitary to and as long as their bracts, or occasionally the 

 lower male flowers geminate ; male bracts membranous, subulate, 

 reflexed, puberulous, 1 lin. long ; female bracts narrow-lanceolate, 

 reflexed, li- lin. long. IVIale sepals 3, wide-ovate, obtuse, glabrous. 

 Stamens 3 ; filaments broad, not longer than the anthers. Female 

 calyx-segments 6, ovate, membranous, accrescent with an at length 

 rigidly coriaceous rhachis 5 lin. long, pinnately 6-7-lobulate on each 

 side ; lateral lobules and rhachis externally bristly with stinging hairs,, 

 terminal laminula lanceolate, membranous ; lateral lobules lanceolate, 

 spreading, about 1 lin. long, persistent. Ov^ary silky-pubescent and 

 bristly ; styles 3, glabrous, united in their lower half. Capsule 

 3-coccous, sparingly silky- puberulous and rather copiously clothed with 

 white bristles, \ in. across ; cocci subglobose. Seeds globose, pale yellow 

 with small brown blotches. — T. cordata, Willd. Sp. PI. iv. 322 ; A. Rich. 



