Tragia.] cxxii. euphoiibiace^ (riiAiN). 985 



long, densely bristly with stinging hairs ; with many male flowers above 

 And 2-3 basal female flowers ; pedicels in both sexes solitary to the 

 bracts or occasionally with the lower male flowers geminate, sparingly 

 bristly and almost as long as the bracts ; male bracts membranous, 

 narrow-lanceolate with bristly margins, otherwise glabrous, 1 lin. long ; 

 female bracts like the male but rather larger. Male sepals 3, wide- 

 ovate, sparingly bristly externally. Stamens 3 ; filaments as long as 

 the anthers. Female calyx-segments G, ovate-lanceolate, membranous, 

 at length accrescent with an indurated linear rhachis, 6 lin. long, pin- 

 nately 3-4-lobulate on each side, lateral lobules and rhachis externally 

 densely beset with stinging bristles, terminal laminula narrowly lan- 

 ceolate, membranous, lateral lobules like the terminal laminula, ascend- 

 ing, 2-2J lin. long, ultimately deciduous. Ovary densely strigose and 

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

 cous, sparingly bristly with a few adpressed hairs intermixed, J in. 

 across ; cocci subglobose. Seeds globose, brown mottled with grey. — T. 

 cordifolia, Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 501 ; Miill. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. 

 ii. 944; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PL Welw. i. 984; De Wild. Etudes 

 Fl. Katanga, 80; Durand & De Wild, in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. 

 xxxvii. 106 ; De Wild. Miss. E. Laurent, 132, and Etudes Fl. Bas- et 

 Moyen-Congo, ii. 28G ; Th. & Hel. Durand, Syll. Fl. Congol. 408 ; not 

 of Vahl. T. mitis, var. Kirkii, Miill. Arg. in Flora, 1864, 435 and in 

 DC. Prodr. XV. ii. 942. T. kassiliensis, Beille in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, 

 Ivii. Mem. viii. 120. 



Upper Guinea. Ivory Coast: Achouka, Z)^5omj«H, 149 ! Agneby Valley, at 

 Kiissigue, Chevalier, 17050! Gold Const: Cape Const, Vogel, 53! Asliaut", 

 Cummins! Togo: Mi^ahohe, Baumann, 283! 450! Dahomey: Adja Oneie, 

 Le Testu, 11! 12! Soufhern Nigeria: Lagos, Daivodu, 268! Lawhorn,2m\ 

 Abeokuta, Millen, 80 ! Oban, Talbot, 613 ! Cameroons : Caineroou .Mountain, 

 1000 ft., Mann, 1255 ! Yaunde, Zenker ^ Standi, 516 ! Bonge, Dusen ! Kunibo, 

 Diisen, 62 ! Mashitsi, 2500 ft., Ledermann, 5344 ! Songolong, 2800-4000 ft., 

 Led€rmann,5Q2Z\ Fernando Po; near Clarence, Vogel,2Q\ 



ITile Ijand. Nianiniam : by tlie Nsibambisso River, Schioelnfurth, 2984 ! 

 Uganda : Busiro, Dawe, 194 ! 



Ziower Guinea. Spani.-h Guinea: Uelleberg; Wigu Klaga, r^5.vj«rt'??», 415 ! 

 Bebao; Nichobot, Tessmann, 415a! Gaboon: Limbareni ; Kninga, Buchfudz ! 

 Monda Island, Thollon, 143! Ogowe River, ThoUon, 418! French Congo; 

 Brazzaville, Thollon, 415! Lower Congo: Banana, Cabra, 104! Mayunibe ; at 

 Bingila, Dupuis ! Cataracts district, Kitoboln, iaMr*?^^ ,' Stanley Pool; Kisnntn, 

 Gillet, 386! Mopolenge, Laurent^ 425! Angola: Bembe, Monfeiro .' Golungo 

 Alto; Sange, Bango and Mussenge, Welvntsch, 381! 381b! Buchner, 511! San 

 Salvador, Buettner, 256 ! 



South Central. Belgian Congo : Kwango district. Lazaret, T'v)dert/sf ! 

 Catala CangingH, Rensch, 322b ! Equatorial district; Eala, Laurent, 157 ! Katanga ; 

 Lukafu, VerdicJc, 453 ! Kasai; Mukenge, Bogge, 1399 ! 



nCozaml). Dlstr. German East Africa: Kilimanjaro; Kibo, 4000 ft., 

 Endlich, 63 ! Portuguese East Africa : between Lupata and Tete, Kirk ! at Tete, 

 Kirk! British Central Africa: Nyasaland ; Nam as i, C«m«ron, 1 ! 



Very nearly allied to T. brevipes. Pax, and only definitely separable by tlie 

 absence of a soft pubescence accompanying the stinging hairs. In this respect the 

 Niamnium plant {Schweinfurth, 2984) identified (probably quite justiti;.bly) by 



