984 cxxii. EUPHORBiACE^ (prain). [Tragia, 



lateral and terminal on the lateral branches, slender, rather lax, H-2J 

 in. long, with a naked peduncle J-J in. long, densely pubescent with 

 reflexed hairs, with many male flowers above and 2-3 basal female 

 flowers ; pedicels in both sexes solitary to the bracts, or occasionally 

 tlie lower male flowers geminate, pubescent and shorter than the 

 bracts ; male bracts membranous, subulate, reflexed, pubescent exter- 

 nally, 1 lin. long ; female bracts like the male but rather larger. Male 

 sepals 3, wide-ovate, pubescent and sparingly bristly externally. 

 Stamens 3 ; filaments as long as the anther. Female calyx-segments 6, 

 ovate-lanceolate, membranous, accrescent with an at length indurated 

 rhachis lin. long, pinnately 3-4-lobulate on each side, lateral lobules 

 and rhachis externally densely clothed with silky hairs and stinging 

 bristles, terminal laminula narrowly lanceolate or subulate, membranous, 

 lateral lobules like the terminal laminula ascending, 2J-3 lin. long, 

 ultimately deciduous. Ovary densely strigose and bristly ; styles 3, 

 glabrous, united in their lower half. Capsule 3-coccous, sparingly hir- 

 sute and densely bi-istly, J in. across; cocci subglobose. Seeds globose, 

 brown mottled with grey.— Pax in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 240. T. cor- 

 data, T. Thoms. in Speke's Nile Journ. App. 647, not of A. Rich. T. 

 tnitis, var. genuina, Miill. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 1)42, partly. 

 T. mltis, Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 147, not of Hochst. 2\ velu- 

 Una, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 104, and in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 240. 

 T. Volkensii, Pax in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 239. 



srile Ziand> Uganda: Rucliig'g'a, Bagshawe, 455! British East Africa: 

 Kaviioiido, at Kisumu; 4400-6000 ft, Whyte ! Edith Skene, 1531 Mount Kenia, 

 Mnckinder ! 



Soutb Central. Belgian Congo : on Lake Albert Edward, Stuklmami, 3044 ! 



Mozamb. Blstr. German East Africa: Usanibara ; Kwai, EicJc, 389! 

 I.tibego, 6600 ft., Keil, 120 ! Kilimanjnro, 4000-5000 ft., Johnaton ! Merker, 

 598! MavanuMi, 5000 ft., Vonienx, 729! Ilcto, 4600-5000 ft., Volkens, 358! 

 Umbnt^wo and Iraku, Merker, 130 ! Kanigwe, Upeke 4* Grant, 388 ! near Bukol)a, 

 Stii/dmavn,40S5 ! Marienburg. 5500 ft., Conrads, 881 Kaluro, 4500 ft., Stu/dwann, 

 1718! IvMgera, Mildbraed, 339! Ruanda; Niansaberg, 5600 ft., Kandt, 35! 

 British Central Africa : Nyasaland ; near Mpata, 2000-3000 ft., Whyte! 



Very closely allied to T. Benthami, Bake)-, but readily distingui.shed by the nice 

 deeply cordate leaves with usually a narrower sinus and by the pubescence which 

 accompanies the stinging bristles. 



21. T. Benthami, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1910, 128. Stems long, 

 slender, twining, finely puberulous or nearly glabrous and sparingly 

 armed with stinging hairs. Leaves distinctly petioled, membranous, ovate, 

 acute or acuminate, base shallowly, less often rather deeply wide-cordate, 

 rarely subtruncate or rounded, margin distinctly and sharply serrate, 

 2-4 in. long, 1-2 in. wide, sparingly or very sparingly bristly seto.se, 

 especially on the nerves, on both surfaces, otherwise glabrous ; petiole 

 J-2J in. long, bristly setose with stinging hairs ; stipules lanceolate, 

 1-1 \ lin. long, spreading or somewhat reflexed, with bristly setose mar- 

 gins, otherwise glabrous. Racemes lateral and terminal on the lateral 

 branches, slender, rather lax, ^-| in. long, with a naked peduncle J-J in 



