098 cxxii. EUPHORBiACE^ (prain). [Trogia, 



with sparingly setose margins, males 1 lin., females 2 lin. long, mem- 

 branous. Male sepals 3, ovate, sparingly pilose or glabrous. Stamens 3 ; 

 filaments as long as the anthers. Female calyx-segments 3, sparingly 

 pubescent externally, wide-ovate, chartaceou^, hardly accrescent and 

 very slightly indurated in fruit, margin pectinately 2-3-lobulate on each 

 side, lobules short, lanceolate. Ovary densely hispid ; styles 3, connate 

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

 sparingly adpressed-setose, J in. across ; cocci bluntly angular. Seeds 

 globose, pale brown, faintly mottled with darker patches. — Pax in Engl. 

 Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 239. 



Mozamb. Dlstr. German East Africa : Umhugwe and Iraku; Kiwawa, 

 Merker, 125 ! and without precise locality, Fischer, 6 ! 



The bluntly angled cocci indicate that this species is most nearly allied to the 

 group which includes T. angustifolia, Benth., and T. Icirkiana, Mull. Arg. 



42. T. kirkiana, Mall. Arg. in Flora, 18G4, 538. Stems long, 

 slender, twining, sparingly branched, glabrous or with a few white 

 bristles. Leaves distinctly petioled, membranous, ovate-lanceolate or 

 lanceolate, rarely triangular-ovate, acuminate, base deeply cordate and 

 usually distinctly hastate, rarely only faintly lobed, 2-4 in. long, J-lJin. 

 wide at the base, margin sharply serrate, usually more strongly in the 

 lower half, sparingly hispid on the nerves on both surfaces, especially 

 beneath, otherwise glabrous; petiole J-lJ in. long, sparingly bristly; 

 stipules ovate-lanceolate, reflexed, membranous, with sparingly bristly 

 margins, H lin. long. Racemes lateral, up to 2 in. long, dense, with a 

 puberulous and sparingly bristly peduncle 1-1 J in. long, with many male 

 flowers above and 1-3 basal female flowers ; pedicels in both sexes shorter 

 than and solitary to the bracts; bracts rather tiim, ovate-lanceolate, 

 spreading, their margins glabrous or very sparingly ciliolate, males 1 lin., 

 females 1^ lin. long. Male sepals 3, wide-ovate, glabrous. Stamens 3 ; 

 filauients considerably longer than the anthers, incurved and subcon- 

 tiivent; connective distinctly thickened. Female calyx-segments 3, 

 l-seriate, oblong, accrescentand coriaceous, 3-4 lin. long, rhachis obovate, 

 pectinately 5-6-lobulate on each side, lobules sparingly white bristly, 

 shorter than the breadth of the rhachis. Ovary sparingly bristly ; 

 styles 3, connate in their lower half in a slender column. Capsule 3- 

 coccous, almost glabrous, \ in. across; cocci bluntly angled on the back. 

 Seeds globose, grey mottled with pale brown. — DC. Prodr. x\', ii. 939 ; 

 Pax in Engl. Pfl. O.st-Afr. C. 239. T. angustifolia, var. hastata, Mull. 

 Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 939. 



Mozamb. Distr. Portuguese East Africa: Cundine, Xe Testu, 627! Mos- 

 suri'/i, 500 tt., Johnson, 113! Lower Sliire River; base of Morambala Mountain, 

 A'^.>^- (1858) ! Morambala, ATir^ (1863) ! JShupanga, /iiV/l- (1859)! liritish Central 

 Africa: Nyasaland : between Songwe and Karonga, 1700-2000 ft., Whytel Zomba 

 Plains, 2500-3000 ii., Whyie 1 Ntondwe, Cameron, 111 ! Mount bochi, Scott- 

 Elliot, 8549 ! 8599 partly ! 



Nearly related to and interuiediate between T. angustifolia, Benth., and 

 T. adenanthera, Baill., but readily distinguished from both by its male flowers. 



