996 cxxii. EUPHORBiACE^ (prain). \Tragxa. 



Female calyx-segments 3, 1 -seriate, ovate, membranous, accrescent but 

 hardly indurated, 5 \\v\,. long, rhachis broadly ovate-oblong, pectinately 

 6-7-lobulate on each side, softly hirsute externally, lateral lobules 

 ascending, persistent, not exceeding the diameter of the rhachis in 

 length, softly hirsute and sparingly beset with stinging bristles. 

 Ovary sparingly strigose and bristly ; styles 3, glabrous, shortly con- 

 nate at the base only. Capsule 3-coccous, sparingly bristly, J in. across ; 

 cocci subglobose. Seeds globose, grey mottled with brcfwn. — Baill. 

 Etude Gen. Euphorb. 4G1 and Adansonia, i. 275. 2\ anynstifoliay 

 VAX. far 'talis y Miill. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 1)30. 

 Af ozaxnb. Dlstr. Zanzibar, Sacleux, 588 ! 



Perliaps only casually introduced to Zanzibar from Mailagascar or tbe Comoro 

 Islands where it is plentiful. Though usually identified with T. angusiifoliay 

 Bcnth., it only agrees with that species in having a3-partite female calyx. 



39. T. Scheffleri, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1908, 439. Stems 

 long, slender, twining, finely puberulous or glabrous and sparingly 

 armed with stinging hairs. Leaves distinctly petioled, membranous, 

 ovate, acuminate, base usually deeply (rarely shallow) cordate, margin 

 sharply serrate, 2-4: in. long, 1^-2 in. wide, faintly puberulous and 

 occasionally with a few white bristles on the nerves on both surfaces, 

 otherwise glabrous; petiole 1-2 in. long, faintly puberulous and some- 

 times sparingly bristly ; stipules lanceolate, reflexed, membranous, 

 glabrous, 1^ lin. long. Racemes lateral, 1^ in. long, slender, rather 

 lax, with a sparingly puberulous naked peduncle \ in. long, with many 

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

 shorter than the bracts, males solitary above, in fascicles of 3 lower 

 down ; bracts membranous, ovate-lanceolate, with puberulous margins, 

 males 1 lin., females 1^ lin. long. Male sepals 3, wide-ovate, sparingly 

 puberulous or glabrous externally. Stamens 3 ; filaments as long as 

 the anthers ; connective somewhat thickened. Female calyx-segments 3, 

 1-seriate, wide-ovate, membranous, accrescent, but only chartaceous, 

 8 lin. long, rhachis broadly ovate-oblong, pectinately 5-G-lobulate on 

 each side, glabrous externally, lateral lobules persistent, lanceolate, up 

 to 3 lin. long, exceeding in length the diameter of the rhachis, sparingly 

 beset with white bristles. Ovary sparingly setose ; styles 3, connate 

 more than halfway in a slender column. Capsule 3-coccous, almost 

 glabrous or with only a few adpressed bristles, J in. across; cocci 

 bluntly angled on the back. Seeds globose, brown with grey blotches. 



mXozamb. Dlstr. Zanzibar, Sacleux, 589 ! Bojer ! Pen\ba Island, Bojer ! 

 G.rman East Africa : Usambara ; Nquelo, 3300 ft., Scheffler, 47 ! Gonja, 2300- 

 4200 ft., Hoht, 4321a ! Engler, 1547 ! 1554 ! Amani, 2000 ft., Zimmermann^ 83 ! 

 Bomole, Braun, 749 I 



Nearest to T. furialis, Rojer, from which it is readily distinguished by its much 

 more deeply lobulate female calyx-segments. Sacleux remarks. of the two species, 

 both of which he has collected in Zanzibar, that externally they closely resemble each 

 other, but that while T. furialis is intensely, T. Scheffleri is hardly, if at all, 

 urticant. 



