986 cxxii. EUPHORBiACEiE (pkain). [Tragia, 



liakt'i" with this species, serves as a link connecting tlie two, because the petioles are 

 pubescent though the blades of the leaves are not. The species was originally 

 tentatively idtntitied by Jienthain with T. cordifolia, Vahl, to which species it is 

 indeed closely allied, but from which it is readily distinguished by the smaller 

 number and the different shape of the lateral lobules of its female cal^x-lobcs. 



2'2. 1l, Okanjnia, Pax in Bull. Herb. Boiss. vi. 735. Stems long, 

 slender, twining, sparingly branched, less often subeiect below and 

 rather freely branching from a woody base, twining only above, 

 pubescent and copiously armed with stinging hairs. Leaves long- 

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

 acuminate, base cordate from faintly lobed to distinctly subhastate, 

 margin finely to coarsely crenate-dentate, 1 J--J in. long, |-H in. wide 

 above the basal lobes, 2-2 J in. wide at the base, puberulous or 

 pubescent and bristly -setose, especially on the nerves, on both surfaces ; 

 petiole i-lj in. long, pubescent and bristly setose; stipules ovate- 

 lanceolate, reflexed, li^ lin. long, almost glabrous above, pubescent 

 beneath. Rademes lateral, |-1J in. long, on rather stiff naked bristly- 

 setose peduncles f-l^ in. long, with numerous rather lax male flowers 

 above and usually 2 basal female flowers ; pedicels all solitary to and 

 equalling or slightly exceeding their bracts ; bracts all thinly mem- 

 branous, male small, ovate, hirsute, female ovate, acute, faintly 3-lobed 

 to, distinctly 8-toothed. IVIale sepals 3, ovate, membranous, glabrous. 

 Stamens 3 ; filaments considerably longer than the anthers ; connective 

 slightly thickened. Female calyx-segments 6, 2-seriate, oblong-ovate, 

 accrescent and coriaceous, 4 lin. long, rhachis nairow-oblong, pinnately 

 2-3-lobulate on each side, lobules all spreading, rather densely bristly as 

 is the rhachis externally. Ovary moderately hispid ; styles 3, connate 

 in a slender column for half their length. Capsule 3-coccous, sparingly 

 bristly-hispid especially above the middle and along the centre, J in. 

 across : cocci subglobose. Seeds globose, brownish -grey. — 2\ anyusti- 

 folia, Pax in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 2311 partly ; Pax in Baum, Kunene- 

 Samb. Exped. 283, not of Benth. T. cordifolia^ N. E. Br. in Kew 

 Bulletin, J 900, 141, not of Vahl nor of Benth. 2\ juadandensis, 

 S. Moore in Journ. Linn. Soc. xl. 2U3. 



IiO'wer Guinea. Angola: Loanda, Gosstveiler, 421 \ Huilla, Antunes, 2b7 t 

 Gambos, Herb. Montpellier ! Mossamedes ; on the Cubango, between Kalolo and 

 the Habnnga Kiver, 3600 ft., Baum, 452! German South-West Africa : Ambo- 

 land; between Un^uambi and Ondonga, Bautanen, 203! 



Mozamb. Slstr. Portuguese East Africa : liOwer Zambesi ; Boiuma, Meny- 

 harth, Q4t^\ Moramballa Marsli, Scott! Mozambique; Ilho do Ibo, Bodrigues de 

 Cavalho ! Gazaland ; Mandanda forests, 400 tt., S icy yniert on, 194:1 British Central 

 Africa: Nyasaland ; Nyika Plateau, McClounie, 125! shores of Luke Nyasa, 

 Simons! Likowa Island, Bellinghain ! Johnson, \2\ Khotlesia: Upper Zambesi j 

 Mademoiselle Kiener ! Bulowayo, Gardner, 5o\ Chubb, 66! Moyon, Allen, 509! 

 Xgamiland: Kwebe Hills, 3000 ft., Lugard, 66 ! Mrs. Lvgard, 61 ! 



Also in South Africa. 



Very closely allied to T. Bentham,i, Baker, of which it is the southern repre- 

 sentative and into which it passes almost as insensibly as does T. brevipes, I'ax. 

 Ijike the latter it is distinguished from 2'. Benthami by the presence of pubescence 



