Jatropha.| CXXII. EUPHORBIACEX (HUTCHINSON). 78E 
the margin. Petals 7 lin. long, linear-lanceolate, tomentose outside. 
Disk 10-lobed, the lobes opposite the sepals larger than the others. 
Ovary tomentose, truncate; styles slender, connate to about the middle, 
3 lin. long, tomentellous ; stigmas bilobed. Capsule tomentose, nearly 
lin, long. Seeds large, 8 lin. long, 6 lin. broad; caruncle very large,. 
flat, much cut up into filiform segments.—Pax in Engl. Pflanzenr. 
Euphorb.-Jatroph. 56. 
Nile Land. Somaliland: Merehan, Rodecchi, 59, 269! Riva, 446, 506. 
Boran Country; Malkare, E/lenbeck, 2147! Malka Dida, Ellenbeck, 2119! 
6. J. crinita, Jill. Arg. in Linnea, xxxiv. 207. Stems about 
6 in. high, branched, thick, fleshy, villous, densely leafy, clothed with 
the persistent long hardened stipules after the fallen leaves. Leaves 
slightly longer than the petiole, ovate in outline, 3-lobed or entire, 
obtuse, cordate at the base, scarcely 3 in. long, sharply serrate-dentate, 
villous-pubescent on both surfaces; stipules 1} in. long, 2-3-partite, 
pubescent when young, at length glabrous, black. Cymes few-flowered ; 
bracts linear-lanceolate, incised-dentate. Male flowers: Sepals lanceo- 
late-ovate, 1} lin. long, glandular-ciliate. Petals lanceolate-obovate, 
obtuse. Disk-glands free. Female flowers: Sepals linear-lanceolate, 
4 lin. long, glandular-ciliate. Disk-glands connate. Ovary pubescent ; 
styles expanded into thick twice bifid subcrenulate stigmas.—Miill. 
Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 1079; Pax in Engl. Pflanzenr. Euphorb.- 
Jatroph. 58. 
Mozamb. Distr. Zanzibar, Boivin. 
An example of the above has not been seen, but from the description it appears: 
to differ from the other African species by the size of the stipules, which are said to 
be considerably longer than the leaves. 
7. J. neriifolia, Mill. Arg. in Flora, 1864, 486. Stems about 
1 ft. high, suleate, pubescent in the upper part, glabrous or nearly so 
Clow. Leaves sessile, linear or linear-lanceolate, acute at the apex, 
33-6 in. long, 3-8 lin. broad, not lobed, denticulate, rigidly charta- 
ceous, pilose on both surfaces especially on the nerves below; lateral 
nerves very numerous, ascending, prominent below; stipules about 
3 times laciniate, segments setose, glandular at the apex, slightly 
pubescent in the lower part. Cyme very shortly pedunculate, few- 
flowered ; bracts narrowly lanceolate, glandular-toothed, glabrous. 
Male flowers not known. Female flowers pedicellate: pedicel 1 lin. 
long, pubescent. Sepals lanceolate, subacute, 1} lin. long, $ lin. broad, 
gland-toothed, glabrous. Petals larger than the sepals. Disk 5-lobed ; 
Obes transversely oblong, entire, glabrous. Ovary subglobose, glabrous ; 
styles rather short, swollen and bifid at the apex.—Miill. Arg. in DC. 
Prodr. xv. ii. 1089; Pax in Engl. Pflanzenr. Euphorb.-Jatroph. 65. 
Upper Guinea. Northern Nigeria: Nupe, Barter, 1679! 
The type specimen is very imperfect, no male flowers being present. 
8. J. Seineri, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xliii. 84. A dwarf perennial 
herb ; underground stem brown, glabrous, bearing a few deltoid scales, 
