Tragia.] cxxii. euphorbiace^ (prain). 999 



43. T. angustifolia, Benth, in Hook. Niger Fl. 502, not of XulL 

 Stems 7 feet long or longer, slender, twining, freely branching, sparingly 

 pubescent or glabrous, and sparsely armed with stinging hairs. Leaves 

 distinctly petioled, membranous, ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, acumi- 

 nute, base shallow-cordate, margin finely and sharply serrate, very rarely 

 coarsely toothed, 3J-4 in. long, f-lj in. wide at the base, tinely puberu- 

 lous on the nerves on both surfaces and sparingly armed with white 

 bristles beneath, or quite glabrous except for the white bristles on both 

 surfaces ; petiole J-1 in. long, puberulous and bristly ; stipules ovate- 

 lanceolate, reflexed, membranous, sparingly puberulous, IJ lin. long. 

 Racemes lateral, up to 3 in. long, dense, with a puberulous and densely 

 bristly peduncle |- in. long, with many male flowers above and 1-L^ basal 

 female flowers ; pedicels in both sexes shorter than the bracts, males 

 solitary above, geminate below, females solitary ; bracts membranous, 

 ovate-lanceolate, their margins finely ciliolate, males 1 lin., females 

 IJ lin. long. Male sepals 3, wide-ovate, sparingly puberulous outside. 

 Stamens 3 ; filaments as long as the anthers ; connective distinctly 

 thickened. Female calyx-segments 3, 1 -seriate, oblong, accrescent and 

 coriaceous, 3—4 lin. long, rhachis obovate, pectinately 6-8-lobulate on 

 each side, lobules densely white bristly, shorter than the breadth of the 

 rhachis. Ovary densely hispid and bristly; styles 3, glabrous, connate 

 in their lower half in a slender column. Capsule 3-coccous, rather 

 sparingly bristly, \ in. across ; cocci bluntly angled on the back. Seeds 

 globose, grey mottled with pale brown. — Walp. Ann. iii. 363; Miill. 

 Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 931). 



Upper Guinea. Northern Nigeria: Nupe, Barter, 1732! Lower Niger, 

 Vogel, 108 ! Lagos, Dawodu, 205 ! Cameroons : on the River Benue, 1000 ft., 

 Ledermann, 4794 ! Garua, 1000 it., Ledermann, 4997 ! 



A very distinct species. 



44. T. senegalensis, Milll. Arg. in Linncea, xxxiv. 182. Stems 

 erect or suberect or rambling, not truly twining or only slightly so at 

 the tips, 2-(; ft. high from a woody base, very sparingly branched, 

 pubescent and sparingly armed with stinging hairs. Leaves distinctly 

 to long petioled, membranous, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, base shallow 

 to deeply cordate, margin sharply toothed, 3-|-4 in. long, U,-2 in., rarely 

 only I in. wide, strigose and bristly especially on the nerves on both 

 surfaces; petiole J-l (rarely 1^) in. long, strigose and bristly; stipules 

 ovate-lanceolate, reflexed, membranous, sparingly hirsute, IJ lin. long. 

 Racemes terminal and lateral, up to 1 in. long, dense, with a pubescent 

 and bristly peduncle J- J in. long, with many male flowers above and 

 usually 2 basal female flowers ; pedicels in both sexes shorter than the 

 bracts, males fascicled, females solitary; bracts membranous, ovate- 

 lanceolate, rather densely pilose externally, males 1 lin., females U Im. 

 long. Male sepals 3, wide-ovate, sparingly puberulous outside. Stamens 

 3 ; filaments as long as the anthers ; connective much thickened. Female 

 calyx- segments 3, rarely 4-5, 1-seriate, oblong or suborbicular, accres- 

 cent and coriaceous, 5 lin. long,irhachis wide-obovate, pectinately G- 8- 

 lobulate on each side, lateral lobules densely white bristly, shorter than 



