780 CXXII. EUPHORBIACE® (HUTCHINSON). | Jatropha. 
3. J. aspleniifolia, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 108. A shrub about 
6 ft. high; branches woody, covered with dark brown longitudinally 
wrinkled glabrous bark. Leaves fern-like, produced on much abbre- 
viated cushion-shaped branchlets, deeply trilobed, cuneate at the base, 
about in. long; lobes subspathulate, lacerate-undulate, glabrous, fleshy; 
stipules not evident. Cymes few-flowered, congested, shortly peduncu- 
late, about ? in. long, glabrous; bracts small, toothed. Male flowers: 
Sepals glandular-denticulate, glabrous (seen only in a young state). 
Female sepals oblong, as in the male. Petals 14 lin. long, about twice 
the length of the calyx, obovate or oblanceolate. Disk-glands small. 
Ovary glabrous, contracted into a short style; stigmas thick, bifid. 
Capsule 5 lin. long, light straw-coloured, slightly wrinkled. Seeds 4 
lin. long, grey, with a large palmately sulcate caruncle.—Pax in Engl. 
Pflanzenr. Euphorb.-Jatroph. 83. 
Wile Land. Somaliland: foothills of the Ahl Mountains, Hildebrandt, 871! 
4. J. spinosa, Vahl, var. somalensis, Pax in Engl. Pflanzenr. 
Euphorb.-Jatroph. 56. A small shrub about 1} ft. high; branches 
minutely asperulate. Leaves crowded on short branchlets, trilobed to 
about the middle, truncate or rounded and subcordate at the base, 3-} 
in. long, submembranous, glabrous on both surfaces ; lobes oblong or 
obovate-oblong, truncate or rounded at the apex, remotely denticulate ; 
petiole 4-3 in. long, glabrous ; stipules spiny, branched from the base, 
rigid, 1-2 lin. long, glaucous. Cymes overtopping the leaves, peduncu- 
late, few-flowered ; peduncle slender, 1} in. long; bracts triangular- 
ovate, acute, entire, glabrous, the largest about } lin. long. Male 
flowers: Sepals oblong, rounded at the apex, 3 lin. long, entire, glabrous. 
Petals about twice the length of the sepals, glabrous. Stamens 8; 
filaments partially connate. Young female flowers not seen. Capsule 
4 lin. long, slightly warted, not hairy. Seeds oblong-ellipsoid, 3 lin. 
long, with a multifid reddish caruncle. 
Wile Land. Somaliland: Somadu, Ellenbeck, 283! Elmis, Hirsch. 
Differs from the typical form, which is found in Arabia, in having smaller trilobed 
remotely denticulate leaves ; it may be a distinct species. 
5. J. ferox, Pax in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, vi. 185. An arbores- 
cent shrub 9-12 ft. high ; branches pubescent, soon becoming glabrous, 
covered with a smooth dark purplish bark. Leaves clustered on very 
short cushion-shaped branchlets produced in the axils of 2-3 large 
stipular spines, ovate-orbicular, about 1} in. in diam., undulately 
trilobed or not lobed, minutely denticulate, shortly pubescent above, 
more or less tomentose below; lateral nerves about 5 on each side ; 
petiole 3-4 lin. long, tomentose ; stipular spines } in. long, very acute, 
rigid. Cymes shortly pedunculate, many-flowered, tomentose ; bracts 
lanceolate, tomentose, gland-toothed. Male flowers: Sepals par 
lanceolate, acuminate, villous, slightly glandular-denticulate, 3 sake 
long. Petals clawed, } in. long, 2 lin. broad, pubescent outside. Dis 
glands conical-cylindric. Stamens 10; filaments partially connate ; 
anthers } lin. long. Female flowers: Sepals with numerous glands on 
