398 EUPHORBIACER. [ Acalypha. 
Has.—Frequent along choungs in the tropical forests of the eastern slopes 
of the Pegu Yomah and Martaban up et 2,000 ft. elevation ; also Ava, Kakhyen 
hills.— Fl. March. —l—SS. =SiS. Meta 
TRAGIA, Plum. 
Flowers usually monoecious. Calyx in males 5-3-parted and 
valvate, in the females 6-5- (rarely 8-3-) parted and imbricate in 
bud, usually much enlarged in fruit, involucre-like and stingingly 
hispid. Petals none, Disk developed or not. Stamens 1 to 40, 
free, or the inner ones more or less connate, round a minute ovary- 
rudiment, or the latter wanting ; anthers 2-rimose, dorsifix, the 
connective not produced. Ovary 3- rarely 5-celled, with a solitary 
ovule in each cell; styles 2-5, connate below, simple, more or less 
papillose on the inner face. Capsule dry, 1-3- or — 5-cell 
eeds globular, without spermaphore. Arillus none.—Shrubs or 
Shoe usually twining or her arr with alternate: dire leaves. 
tipules paired. Flowers small, in racemes term 
shoots and appearing leaf-opposed ate the fall of ae ates the 
females at the base of the inflorescen 
Leaves more * clone pubescent ; female calyx-lobes pinnatifid ; 
T. involucrata, 
es large, ainiodt glabrous 5 female calyx: lobes entire ; ’ seeds 
eT inet tomentose . ZT. Burmanica, 
1. T. involucrata, = oe evergreen ae undershrub, 
4-6 ft. high, all parts more or less covered with stiff sti 
inging 
hairs ; leaves ovate-lanceolate to ovate, acute or obtuse at the 3- | 
nerved base, on a hispid-pubescent petiole ~ to nearly an in 
long, acuminate, coarsely serrate, 1 to 3 in. long, membranous, on 
both gules gel eege gee more or less covered with stiff sting: 
Has. me f Gatco in ent around villages and along the margins 
of forests of Lower Pegu.—Fl. F 
2. T. Burmanica, Kz.—A large twining shrub, the young 
parts appressed-puberulous ; leaves large, cor rdate-ovate, on & 
greyish appressed-puberulous poole 1 to 3 in. long, sinuate-cordate 
at the 5-nerved base, shortly and abruptly acuminate, thin-charta- 
ceous, remotely and minutely toothed or almost entire, 2 to 5 im. — 
