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Jatropha. | CXXII, EUPHORBIACEA (HUTCHINSON). 
Male sepals pubescent . . 37. J. Stuhlmannii. 
Male sepals glabrous. 
Ovary slightly tubercular . 38. J. batawe. 
Ovary smooth . . - 89. J. mollis. 
Leaves lobed to } or 4 their 
length. 
Female flowers petaliferous ; 
flowering branchlets slen- 
der 4 : * - 40. J. velutina. 
Female flowers without petals ; 
flowering branchlets thick 
and fleshy. : - 41. J. acerifolia. 
Stipules spiny, stout, 2-3-furcate. 
Leaf-lobes rounded at the apex ; 
stipules pubescent. 
Leaves 5-lobed, longer than 
the stipules . : . 42. J. Ellenbeckii. 
Leaves 3-lobed or entire, 
shorter than the stipules 6. J. erinita. 
Leaf-lobes acutely acuminate ; 
stipules soon becoming glab- 
rous . ; : ° . 43. JS. fissispina. 
1. J. Rivz, Pax in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, vi. 185. A shrub; 
branches somewhat fleshy, covered with smooth purple-brown bark, 
slightly puberulous when young. Leaves clustered on much abbre- 
viated branches in the axils of 2-3 rigid spiny stipules, sessile, 
spathulate-oblanceolate, 3-14 in. long, 5-6 lin. broad, entire, mem- 
branous, with about 5 faint lateral nerves on each side of the midrib, 
glabrous, Cymes small, shortly pedunculate, about 4 in. long ; peduncle 
3 in. long, puberulous ; bracts linear-lanceolate, entire, the lower 3 lin. 
long, pubescent, the upper smaller. Male flowers: Sepals lanceolate, 
entire, pubescent. Petals about the same length as the sepals. Disk- 
glands small. Stamens 8; filaments almost free. Female flowers: 
Sepals obovate, subacute, minutely glandular-denticulate, 2 lin. long. 
Petals oblong, obtuse, shorter than the sepals. Disk deeply lobed. 
Ovary glabrous. Capsule 5 lin. long. Seeds smooth, 24 lin. long, 
With a deeply sulcate caruncle.—Pax in Engl. Pflanzenr. Euphorb.- 
Jatroph. 57, fig. 21, 
_™ile Land. Somaliland: Boran Country; near Dolo, on the Daua River, 
Riva, 1102! 1218; Web Karanle, Riva, 973! 
2. J. Robecchii, Pux in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, vi. 184. A shrub 
(or tree %), glabrous in all its parts; branches covered with greyish 
bark. Leaves sessile in clusters, arising from cushion-shaped arrested 
branchlets, spathulate, slightly emarginate, 5-7 lin. long, 3-4 lin. broad, 
Subcoriaceous, entire, with indistinct nerves; stipules minute. Cymes 
very small and few-flowered, seen only in a young state. Flowers 
glabrous. Stamens 8. Female flowers.and fruits not known.—Pax in 
Engl. Pflanzenr. Euphorb.-Jatroph.. 83. 
Wile Land. Somaliland, without precise locality, Robecchi ! 
