776 CXXII. EUPHORBIACEX (HUTCHINSON). [ Jatropha. 
the petals; anthers ovate or oblong, erect, cells parallel and contiguous, 
dehiscing longitudinally. Rudimentary ovary absent. Female flowers: 
Sepals and petals as in the male. Disk annular, often 5-lobed or 
broken up into glands. Ovary 2-3- (rarely 4—5-) celled; styles con- 
nate at the base, spreading above, often shortly divided into 2 branches ; 
ovules solitary in each cell. Capsule ovoid or subglobose, dehiscing into 
2-valved cocci; endocarp crustaceous or hardened. Seeds ovoid or 
oblong; caruncle often much divided; testa crustaceous; albumen 
fleshy ; cotyledons flat, broad.— Herbs or shrubs, rarely arborescent or 
herbs arising from a thick perennial rhizome. Leaves alternate, 
crowded or lax, sessile or petiolate, entire or more often variously digi- 
tately lobed, rarely pinnately divided; indumentum simple, sometimes 
glandular ; ‘stipules usually much divided into setaceous segments, 
rarely rigid and spiny. Flowers arranged in terminal dichotomous 
cymes, the female solitary and terminating each axis, the males 
lateral. 
Species about 160, distributed throughout the Tropics and extending into South 
Africa and North America. 
Leaves fasciculate and crowded on short arrested 
cushion- -shaped branchlets, the latter often in the 
axils of spiny stipules. 
Stipules much shorter than the leaves. 
Leaves undivided, spathulate or spathulate-ob- 
lanceolate, glabrous. 
Stipules large and spiny - ° . . 5s Gh ann 
Stipules minute, not spiny. fae Robecchit. 
Leaves trilobed to or below the middle, glabrous. 
Leaves divided nearly to, and cuneate at the ee 
base . 3. J.asplenitfolia. 
Leaves God to about the ‘eddie, Wauete 
or subcordate at the base . : : . 4. JS. spinosa, 
var. somalensis. 
Leaves undivided or undulately trilobed, ovate- 
orbicular, tomentose below. 4 5. J. ft sstiesoen 
Stipules nearly twice as long as the leaves 6. J. crinita. 
Leaves not fasciculate or crowded, arranged more or 
less regularly on elongated branchlets; stipules 
rarely spiny. 
Leaves all undivided, penninerved. oats 
Leaves linear or pncarelaticcelate, 34-6 in. long 7. J. neriifolia. 
Leaves ovate or lanceolate, 3-3 in. long. 
Leaves pubescent on both surfaces ; branches coat 
decumbent. ‘ ; : , . 8. J. Seinert. 
Leaves glabrous ; branches erect or suberect. . 
Stipules minute ; leaves subsessile, lanceolate 9. J. Baumi. 
Stipules conspicuous, divided into filiform 
segments; leaves petiolate, ovate or ee 
ovate-lanceolate . ; . 10. J. prunifolia. 
Leaves (most of them) variously divided or if sub- 
entire then digitately nerved. oda 
Leaves pinnately divided . “ : : . 11. J. erythropoda. 
Leaves digitately divided. 
