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27. Tragia involucrtrta Linn. Sp. PL 980 1753- (Fig. 217).
Tragia hispida Willd.
EUPHORBIACEAE
Sinh. Welkahambiliya, Helkahambiliya; Tarn. Ambu, Cherukanjuru, Erumaikkanjori,
Kanjori, Kandudi, Kanuichi, Karuppukkanjori, Kunasagam, Kurundotti, Punaikkaniori,
Samuttirandam, Sendotti, Siruganjori, Tanavaiyadam, Turalobam, Turpparigam, Vellaikkanjori,
Hindi Barhanta. Sans. Duralabha, Dusparcha, Grahini, Kachchura, Kasaghni, Samudranta,
Virupa. Vrishchikali, Vrishchikapatri.
A perennial, hispid herb, with scattered, stinging hairs; stem elongate, slender and twining;
leaves simple, alternate, stipulate, 2.5—12.5 cm long, 2—4.5 cm broad, very variable from
linear-oblong to broadly ovate-cordate, acuminate, serrate, hairy, sometimes deeply 3-fid or
3-partite with irregularly serrate or sub-pinnatifid lobes, base rounded or cordate; petioles
1—1.5 cm long and hairy; flowers regular, unisexual, monoecious, shortly pedicellate,
apetalous in terminal axillary and leaf—opposed racemes 2.5—5 cm long with many male and
few female flowers, the male flowers in the upper part, yellowish, and females in the lower part
of the raceme; bracts 1.5 mm long and as broad; male flowers: 2 mm diameter, sepals 3,
orbicular, concave, fused, valvate;stamens 3 on the sepals, filaments distinct, pistillode absent;
female flowers: strigosely hispid, green; sepals 6, pinnatifid, very hispid, much elongating and
becoming rigid in fruit; ovary superior, 3-1 ocular with a single ovule in each loculus, hispid,
styles 3, circinately revolute, united below in a stout, cylindric style; fruit capsule 8 mm diameter,
3-lobed, more or less hisp :
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