784 CXXII. EUPHORBIACE# (HUTCHINSON). [ Jatropha, 
J.. elegans, Klotzsch in Seem, Bot. Voy. Herald, 102. Adenoropium 
elegans, Pohl, Pl. Brasil. Ic. et Deser. i. 15. A. gossypifoliwm, Pohl, 
lc. 16. 
Upper Guinea. Without locality, Don! Senegal, Lelievre! French 
Guinea: Santana, Chevalier, 515! Comakry, Chevalier, 12126! Sierra Leone: 
near Kambia, Scarcies, Scott-Hlliot, 4624! and without precise locality, Afzelius. 
Gold Coast : Krause, 10, 40,99. Cape Coast Castle, Vogel! Togo: near Lome, 
Warnecke, 286! and without precise locality, Déring, 37, Kersting, 32, Kling, 46; 
Dahomey, Testu, 288! Poisson! Southern Nigeria: Lagos, Phillips, 17! Dawodu, 
256! Oloke Meji, Foster, 273! in fences of all Yoruba towns, Barter, 3353 ! 
Var. staphysagriefolia, Mill. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 1087. Leaves tomen- 
tellous above, tomentose below; petiole softly pubescent.—Miill. Arg. in Fl. Bras. 
xi. ii. 491; Pax in Engl. Pflanzenr. Euphorb.-Jatroph. 27. J. staphysagrifolia, 
Mill. Dict. ed. 8, n. 9; Bot. Reg. t. 746. J. Jacquini, Baill. Adansonia, iv. 268. 
Adenoropium Jacquini, Pohl, Pl. Brasil. Ic. et Descr. i. 15. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Lelievre! Perrottet, 733. Leprieur! 
Widely distributed in the Tropics. 
13. J. multifida, Zinn. Sp. Pl. ed. i. 1006. A-shrub or tree up 
to 20 ft. high; branchlets stout, glabrous. Leaves digitately 11-12- 
partite ; segments lanceolate, narrowed into a long tail at the apex, 
narrowed to the base, 4—6 in. long, 1-2 in. broad, deeply pinnatilobed, 
with very acute lobes, or rarely subentire, glabrous on both surfaces, 
more or less glaucous below; petiole 5-6 in. long, glabrous, not 
glandular ; stipules laciniate, about 4 in. long, segments filiform, not 
glandular at the apex. Cymes corymbose, pedunculate, 1-2 in. long, 
1}-23 in. broad; peduncle 5-64 in. long, rather stout, glabrous ; bracts 
subulate, acute, 3-1 lin. long, glabrous, entire, not glandular. Male 
flowers pedicellate, red: pedicel up to 3 lin. long, glabrous. Sepals 
connate at the base, ovate-triangular, acute, entire, glabrous, 3-1 lin. 
long. Petals free to the base, obovate, emarginate, 3 lin. long, Be lin. 
broad, striate, entire, glabrous. Disk-glands large, erect, subcontiguous, 
glabrous. Stamens 8; filaments quite free to the base, 14 lin. long, 
glabrous; anthers very large, sagittate at the base, 1} lin. long. 
Female flowers solitary on the primary and secondary axes of the cyme. 
Sepals and petals as in the male. Disk large, deeply 5-lobed, lobes 
fleshy, ovate or rounded, entire, glabrous. Ovary ovoid, ech ; 
styles connate in the lower half, bifid and swollen at the apex. ray 
depressed, trilobed, about 1} in. in diam., lobes very slightly ess 
Seeds mottled, broadly ellipsoid, a little over } in. long.—H. B.& B 
Nov. Gen. et Sp. ii. 105; Miquel, Fl. Ind. Bat. i. 2, 392; Miill. Arg. 1 
DO. Prodr. xv. ii. 1089, and in Fi. Bras. xi. 2, 495, t. 69, fig. 1; Baker, 
Fl. Maurit. 322; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. v. 383; Sesse & Mog. Fl. ert 
ii, 224; Pax in Engl. Pf. Ost-Afr. C. 240; Hiern in Cat. Afr. *” 
Welw. i. 969; Urban, Symb. Antill. iv. 350; Durand & sere 
Etudes Fl. Congo, 243; Durand & De Wild. Mat. Fl. Congo, 1. 0% 
and in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2me sér. i. 47; Pax in Engl. ae 
Euphorb.-Jatroph. 40, fig. 13; J. Janipha, Blanco, FI. Filip. ed. 1. be 
ed. 3, iii. 159, with fig. Adenoropium multifidum, Pohl, Pl. Brasv. 
Ic. et Deser. i. 16. 
