788 CXXII. EUPHORBIACEA (HUTCHINSON). | Jatropha. 
21. J. lobata, Mill. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 1085 (exel. var. 
senegalensis, Mill. Arg.). An erect undershrub about 1 ft. high, 
branched from the base; stems longitudinally wrinkled when dry, 
glabrous. Leaves broadly obovate or suborbicular in outline, more or 
less cuneate at the base, 14-3 in. long, 14-4 in. broad, digitately 3-5- 
lobed to the middle or a little below it, rigidly subchartaceous, sharply 
repand-dentate with numerous teeth, more or less glaucous, glabrous on 
both surfaces or rarely slightly pubescent on the principle nerves below}; 
lobes more or Jess obovate, mostly acute ; lateral nerves to each lobe 5-6 
on each side, distinct, looped and branched within the margin; veins 
very few or absent ; petiole 3-24 in. long, glabrous or shortly pubescent, 
not glandular ; stipules multisect, about } in. long, segments filiform or 
setaceous, gland-tipped, glabrous. Cymes few-flowered, pedunculate, 
about 1 in. in diam., glabrous or shortly pubescent ; peduncle 3-1 in. 
long ; bracts narrowly lanceolate, acute, gland-toothed, up to } in. long, 
glabrous. Male flowers very shortly pedicellate : Sepals ovate-lanceolate, 
acute, 1 lin. long, $ lin. broad, gland-toothed in the upper half, glabrous. 
Petals the same length as the sepals. Disk-glands small. Stamens 8; 
filaments nearly all free. Female flowers: Sepals and petals larger 
than in the male. Disk lobed. Ovary glabrous; styles very short, 
bilobed. Capsule scarcely $ in. long, pale straw-coloured. Seeds oblong- 
ellipsoid, 4 lin. long, pale brown; caruncle much divided.—/. glauca, 
Vahl, Symb. i. 78, partly; A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 250; Schweinf. 
Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 37. J. ricinifolia, Fenzl ex Baill. Adansonia, 
i. 63. J. lobata, vars. genuina and richardiana, Miill. Arg. in DC. 
Prodr. xv. ii. 1085-6. J, lobata, subsp. glauca, Pax in Engl. Pflanzenr. 
Euphorb.-Jatroph. 32. Adenoropium glaucum, Pohl, Pl. Bras. Ic. et 
Descr, i. 15. 
Nile Land. Kordofan, Kotschy, 251! Pfund, 200!-394, 395, 396, 397, 398, 
486. Nubia, Schweinfurth, 128! 843, 844! Abyssinia: near Goelleb, Schweinfurth, 
2311! Arussi and Boran countries, Drake- Brockman, 91! and without precise 
locality, Roth ! 
22. J. Chevalieri, Beille in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, lv. Mém. vi, 
83. A shrub about 3 ft. high; branches longitudinally striate, glabrous. 
Leaves rounded or broadly ovate in outline, deeply cordate at the base, 
digitately 5-lobed to near the middle, 1-3 in. long and broad, very 
thinly and rigidly chartaceous, glabrous on both surfaces, slightly glau- 
cous below ; lobes ovate, sharply sinuately 5-8-dentate ; lateral nerves 
to each leaflet 4-6 on each side, spreading, branched; veins usually 
distinct on both surfaces, somewhat lax ; petiole $14 in. long, glabrous, 
not glandular; stipules divided into filiform glabrous gland-tippee 
segments, about 2 lin. long. Cymes pedunculate, about 1 in. long; 
peduncle 1} in. long, glabrous; bracts lanceolate, acutely aoUnine? 
up to 3 lin, long, pectinate with gland-tipped teeth, glabrous. Ma : 
flowers: Sepals ovate, acutely acuminate, 2-2} lin. long, entire or vi 
a few gland-tipped teeth, glabrous. Petals ovate-elliptic, obtuse, & little 
longer than the sepals, entire, glabrous. Disk-glands fleshy. a 
8; filaments partially connate. Female flowers: Sepals ovate, acutely 
