Jatropha. | CXXII. EUPHORBIACE (HUTCHINSON). 785 
Upper Guinea. Senegal, Roger! Niayes, Chevalier, 2631! Sierra Leone : 
about Freetown, Welwitsch, 298; near Kambia, Scarcies River, Scott-Elliot, 4708! 
in gardens, Barter! French Guinea: Galombombo, Paroisse! -Togo: near Lome, 
Warnecke, 373! and without precise locality, Diring, 93; Kersting, 267 ; Graf Zech. 
Southern Nigeria: Lagos, Phillips, 43! Annye, Unwin, 136! and without precise 
locality, Flegel. North Cameroons, Zalbot ! 
A native of America, occurring from South-west Texas, Mexico and the West 
Indies southwards to Brazil; cultivated in Africa and elsewhere. 
14, J. kilimandscharica, Pax ¢ K. Hoffm. in Engl. Phanzenr. 
Luphorb.-Jatroph. 40. Anundershrub 1-14 ft. high, glabrous. Leaves 
5-7-lobed to near the subtruncate base, 3-4 in. in diam., membranous, 
glabrous on both surfaces; lobes lanceolate, acute, more or less irregu- 
larly lobulate, glandular-serrulate; petiole 1}-2 in. long, slender, 
glabrous; stipules divided into filiform gland-tipped segments, 3 lin. 
long. Cymes pedunculate, few-flowered, glabrous; bracts gland- 
toothed, up to 1} lin. long. Male flowers: Sepals lanceolate, acute, 
entire, glabrous. Petals spathulate, glabrous, Stamens 8; filaments 
connate. Female flowers: Sepals and petals as in the male. Ovary 
glabrous ; styles short. 
Nile Land. British East Africa: Ndi, Scott-Elliot, 6173! plains between 
Tsavo and Kibwezi, Scott-Elliot, 23241! Kilimanjaro Region; between Taveta 
and the Buru Mountains, Engler, 1914! 
15, J. campestris, S. Moore in Journ. Linn. Soc. xl. 196. A 
herb with rather fleshy glabrous stems and branches. Leaves sessile 
or subsessile, digitately 5-7-lobed to near the base, 2-4 in. long, 
13-2} in. broad, glabrous on both surfaces, somewhat glaucous below ; 
Segments linear-lanceolate, entire or rarely with one or two teeth, up 
to 8 lin. broad ; stipules small and filiform, soon falling off. Cymes 
pedunculate, many-flowered, about 14 in. long, glabrous; bracts 
Subulate-lanceolate, up to 34 lin. long, entire. Male flowers: Sepals 
ovate, rounded at the apex, entire, about 1 lin. long and § lin. broad. 
Petals free almost to the base, entire, about twice the length of the 
Sepals. Stamens 8; filaments free nearly to the base. Female 
flowers : Sepals similar to and the petals narrower than those of the 
male. Ovary glabrous; styles erect, Capsule about 7 lin. long, 
wrinkled. Seeds oblong, blackish and shining, 5 lin. long, 3 lin. broad, 
with a large 5-6-partite dark-coloured caruncle. 
Mozamb. Distr. Portuguese East Africa: Gazaland; Umswirizwi Flats, 
Swynnerton, 311! 
-,, 16. J. tuberosa, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xix.111. Stems 1-2 ft. 
high, arising from a rhizome, terete, glabrous ; rhizome turnip-shaped, 
about 3 in. long, 1} in. in diam. Leaves sessile, the upper deeply 
trilobed, 6 in. long, 5} in. broad, or entire, the lower entire, lanceolate, 
acute, slightly narrowed or rounded at the base, 3-5} in. long, $—-1} in. 
road, sharply serrulate, rigidly membranous, glabrous on both surfaces ; 
Stipules laciniate, about 3 lin. long, segments setose, not glandular at 
the apex, glabrous. Cymes shortly pedunculate, small, few-flowered ; 
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