994 cxxii. EUPHORBiACEiE (prain). [Tragia. 



acuminate, base rounded, margin distinctly serrate, U-2 in. long, J in. 

 wide, softly pubescent on both surfaces but especially beneath and beset 

 with stinging hairs especially on the nerves on both sides ; petiole 0-1 lin. 

 long, when present softly pubescent and bristly ; stipules lanceolate, 

 IJ lin. long, membranous, reflexed, pubescent. Racemes androgynous, 

 terminal and leaf-opposed on stems and branches, 6-10 in. long, with a 

 basal naked peduncle J-Jin. long, softly pubescent like the rhachi8,with 

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

 in scattered 3-flowered cymules, -J in. long, throughout the raceme but 

 with 2-3 solitary flowers at the base and 5-6 solitary flowers at the apex ; 

 pedicels softly pubescent, 2-bracteolate, shorter the bracts, female pedicel 

 softly pubescent, as long as the bract ; bracts similar in both sexes, mem- 

 branous, pubescent, ovate, acute, 1-2 lin. long. Male sepals 3, wide- 

 ovate, pubescent. Stamens 3 ; filaments considerably longer than the 

 anthers. Female calyx-segments 3, densely pubescent externally, wide- 

 ovate, chartaceous, at length accrescent but not coriaceous, 3 lin. long, 

 margin pectinately 4-5-lobulate on each side, lobules short, lanceolate. 

 Ovary densely adpressed-pilose ; styles 3, connate for more than half 

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

 sparingly adpressed-pilose, J in. across ; cocci subglobose. Seeds globose, 

 brown blotched with grey. 



Upper Guinea. Upper Niger : Katou, Chevalier, 539 ! 



A very distinct species, with female calyx and fruit like that of T. angtistifolia, 

 Benth., but very different in all other respects. 



36. T. Gardner!, Prain in Kew Bnlktin, 1909, 52. Stems erect 

 from a woody base, 1 J ft. high, copiously branched, sparingly puberulous 

 and rather copiously armed with stinging hairs. Leaves sessile or very 

 shortly petioled, ascending, chartaceous, ovate, acute, base truncate or 

 wide-cuneate, entire,' margin elsewhere distinctly sharply serrate, | in. 

 long, J in. wide, sparingly puberulous on both surfaces, without sting- 

 ing hairs above, rather copiously armed with stinging hairs on the nerves 

 beneath ; petiole 0-1 lin. long, when present glabrous or with a few 

 bristles on the lower aspect only ; stipules ovate-lanceolate, rigid, re- 

 flexed, glabrous. Racemes androgynous, terminal on stem and branches 

 and leaf -opposed below, 1 in. long, with a naked puberulous and rather 

 densely bristly peduncle lJ-2 in. long, with numerous rather close-set 

 male flowers above and 1-2 basal female; pedicels in both sexes solitary 

 to and shorter than tlieir bracts ; bracts ovate-lanceolate, usually acute 

 but the uppermost obtuse, rather firm, glabrous. Male sepals 3, ovate^ 

 subacute, glabrous. Stamens 3, occasionally 4 ; filaments longer than 

 the anthers. Female calyx-segments 3, sparingly puberulous externally, 

 suborbicular, chartaceous, accrescent but hardly indurated in fruit, mar- 

 gin pectinately 5-G-lobuIate on each side, lobules very short, triangular, 

 feetose. Ovary densely pilose ; styles 3, almost free throughout. Capsule 

 3-coccous, densely adpressed-setose, J in. across ; cocci subglobose. 

 Seeds globose, reddish-brown with grey blotches. 



Mozamb. Dlstr. Rliodesia: Gwe\o, Gardner, 34:1 



A very distinct species. 



