Tragia.] cxxii. euphorbiace^ (prain). 998 



sparingly pilose ; female racemes not seen. Male sepals 3, wide-ovate, 

 sparingly shortly pilose. Stamens 3 ; filaments considerably longer than 

 the anthers. 



Upper Guinea. Gold Coast : Aburi, Anderson, 54 ! 



Very closely allied to T. Schiveinfurthii, Baker, but readily distinguished by 

 the obtuse almost glabrous leaves and the much longer male racemes. 



34. T. dioica, Sond. in Linruea, xxiii. 109. Stems erect or sub- 

 erect, several from a woody base, sparingly branched upwards, rather 

 copiously armed with stinging hairs. Leaves shortly to distinctly 

 petioled, membranous, lanceolate, acute above, base shallowly broadly 

 auriculate-cordate, basal lobes oblong and coarsely toothed, mid-lobe 

 remotely and shortly serrate, 2-3 in. long, J-J in. wide above the base, 

 f-1 J in. wide at the base, rather sparingly bristly setose, especially on 

 the nerves, on both surfaces ; petiole |~J (rarely J) in. long, copiously 

 bristly setose ; stipules lanceolate, reflexed, sparingly setose, I J lin. long, 

 Racemes terminal and lateral, leaf -opposed, J-1 J in. long, on stiff naked 

 bristly setose peduncles J-1^ in. long, with numerous dense male flowers 

 above and 1-3 basal female flowers ; pedicels in both cases solitary to 

 and rather longer than the bracts, puberulous or pubescent; bracts 

 membranous, ovate, puberulous or pubescent, males under 1 lin. long, 

 females nearly 2 lin. long. Male sepals 3, ovate, subacute, puberulous. 

 Stamens 3 ; filaments short. Female calyx-segments 1 -seriate, very 

 irregular, often apparently 3 but with usually a small additional lobe 

 sometimes reduced to a single linear lobule, not infrequently 5-6, 

 occasionally 7, at least three very accrescent and coriaceous, 4 lin. long, 

 deeply subpectinately 3-7-lobulate on each side, lobules lanceolate, 

 densely bristly, rhachis from lanceolate to suborbicular, glabrous 

 within, bristly externally. Ovary rather sparingly hispid ; styles 3, 

 connate half their length in a puberulous column. Capsule 3-coccous, 

 sparingly bristly hispid, f in. across ; cocci subglobose. Seeds globose, 

 dark grey with brown blotches. — Walp. Ann. iii. 3C3 ; Baill. Adansonia, 

 iii. 162. T. rupestris, var. lohata, Miill. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 941. 

 T. Schinzii, Pax in Bull. Herb. Boiss. vi. 734. 



]Lower Guinea. German South- West Africa : Amboland ; Okasima, Schinz, 

 896! Oshihehe, Schinz, 896a! Otyitno, Dmi^er, 870! Hereroland; Okahandya, 

 ■Dinter, 82 ! Quaaiputs, Dinter, 193 ! Rehoboth, Fleck, 444 ! 446 ! 451 ! 

 nXozamb. Dlstr. Rhodesia: ^\Aawa.^o, Kolbe in Herl. Bolus, ^\0Q\ 

 Also in South Africa, where the species occurs in two distinct forms, hardly 

 deserving of recognition as separate varieties. The first form, on which the species 

 Avas originally based, is rather densely aculeate on the stems and leaves, and 

 casually, as in some specimens collected in the Macalisberg range by Zeyher and 

 Burke, may be polygamo-dioecious. The second form is much more sparingly 

 setose. All the specimens from our area belong to the less setose form of the 

 species, which is the original basis of T. Schinzii, Pax, except Dinter's 870, which 

 is referable to the other form. 



35. T. 'Wildemanii, Beille in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, Iv. Man. viii. 

 82. Stems erect from a woody base, 1-1 J ft. high, sparingly branched, 

 densely softly pubescent and sparingly armed with stinging hairs. Leaves 

 sessile or very shortly petioled, ascending, membranous, lanceolate, 



