Cnesmone.] cxxvm. euphorbiace^e. 307 
above, pale tomentose hairy beneath; petioles 1 to 3 in. long, 
tomentose. Stipules puberulous, ’15 in. long. Racemes about 2 in. 
long. Male flowers '2 in. wide, pedicelled. Females larger, sub- 
sessile. Sepals -3 to *5 in. long in fruit. Capsule -25 in. long. Seed 
globose mottled. Hab. Orchards, villages and open country, 
common. Pahang, Pekan; Kwala Tembeling. Malacca (Griffith, 
Cuming); Bukit Bruang (Cantley); Malacca town. Negri Sembilan, 
Tampin (Burkill). Dindings, Lumut. Perak, Jenah (Wray); 
Ulu Temengoh; Sungei Rayah (Kunstler). Penang, Moniot’s Road 
(Curtis). Kedah, Yan. Kemaman (Vaughan-Stevens). Native 
names: Akar Jelatang; Jelatang Gajah; Jelatang Rusa. 
(2) C. subpeltata Ridl. Kew Bulletin, 1923, p. 368. 
Slender twiggy climbing shrub shortly white-hairy all over. 
Leaves membranous elliptic or ovate blunt, base shortly peltate 
edge crenulate-sinuate, above sparsely hairy, beneath more hairy 
on the 4 or 5 pairs of nerves; 2 to 3 in. long, 1-5 to 2 in. wide; 
petioles 1-5 in. long, hairy. Stipules broadly ovate nearly glabrous. 
Racemes very slender, 2*5 in. long, hairy. Bracts ovate acuminate, 
•05 in. long, persistent, distant. Male flowers *1 in. wide, shortly 
pedicelled. Sepals 3 ovate hairy. Stamens 3, filaments very 
short; anther-cells separated by a wide connective keeled on 
both sides and prolonged to a short point. Female flowers not 
seen. Fruit, calyx-lobes lanceolate acute, *25 in. long. Hab. 
Thickets, Selangor, Batu Caves (Ridley). 
58 . TRAGIA, Linn. 
Twining herbs hispid with stinging hairs. Leaves alternate, 
simple or trilobed serrate, base cordate, 3- to 5-plinerved. Flowers 
in axillary and leaf opposed racemes apetalous. Males above 
minute, females at base of raceme. Male flowers; calyx globose 
or obovoid, 3- to 5-fid. Stamens 1 to 3, rarely many, filaments free 
or connate; anthers ovate or oblong. Pistillode minute or 0. 
Female flowers; sepals 6 imbricate, entire (or pinnatifid), often 
enlarged and spreading in fruit. Ovary 3-celled, cells i-ovuled; 
styles united below in a column, then free spreading simple. Capsule 
of 3 bivalved cocci crustaceous. Seeds globose. Species 50, 
Asia, Africa. 
(1) T. lsevis Ridl. Kew Bulletin, 1923, p. 368. 
Stems slender twining pubescent or sparsely armed with stinging 
hairs. Leaves herbaceous hastate-deltoid cordate acuminate 
mucronulate entire or sparingly serrate or shortly lobed at base, 
sparsely white hairy above or quite glabrous, beneath with numerous 
white stinging hairs on the nerves 7 from the base, 3 pairs from the 
midrib; 2-25 in. long, 1*5 in. wide; petioles armed with white 
stinging hairs 1*5 in. long. Inflorescence racemose opposite the 
leaves *5 in. long, peduncle white-hairy. Male flowers terminal, 
•1 in. wide; pedicels -i in. long. Bracts linear. Sepals 3 ovate 
