Jatropha. | CXXIJ. EUPHORBIACEZ (HUTCHINSON). 789 
acuminate, 3-4 lin. long, 1? lin. broad, glandular-pectinate, glabrous. 
Petals oblong-obovate, rounded at the apex, 44 lin. long, about 2 lin. 
broad, striate, glabrous. Disk fleshy, undulately lobed. Ovary glabrous ; 
styles partially connate, swollen and bilobed at the apex. Capsule } in, 
long, tipped by the persistent base of the style. Seeds oblong-ellipsoid, 
4 lin. long, 24 lin. broad, smooth, not mottled ; caruncle large and 5-6- 
partite.—/. lobata, var. senegalensis, Miill. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 
1086, partly (excl. Welw. spec.). /. lobata, subsp. senegalensis, Pax in 
Engl. Pfanzenr. Euphorb.-Jatroph, 33, partly. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia: Cayor, Leprieur! Senegal, Richard! Roger, 
143! Brunner, 138! Lelievre, Perrottet, 158! 733! Mayes, Chevalier, 2629! 
Welwitsch’s 299, quoted by Miiller under his var. senegalensis, is quite distinct 
and is the type of J. confusa, Hutchinson. 
23, J. aceroides, Hutchinson. A small shrub, branched from the 
base; branches spreading, longitudinally wrinkled when dry, glaucous ; 
young branchlets much abbreviated, glabrous. Leaves suborbicular or 
reniform in outline, truncate or slightly cordate at the base, #-3 in. long, 
1-4 in. broad, digitately 5-lobed for about one-third their length, rigidly 
subchartaceous, very sparingly, coarsely and acutely dentate, subentire, 
glaucous when young, glabrous on both surfaces ; lobes broadly ovate, 
rounded to an acute apex; lateral nerves to each lobe 4-5 on each side, 
slightly prominent on both surfaces, freely branched within the margin ; 
veins lax and inconspicuous; petiole 6-8 lin. long, glabrous, not glan- 
dular; stipules deeply 2-3 times divided into filiform glabrous segments 
about 4 lin. long. Cymes pedunculate, few-flowered ; peduncle 3-13 in. 
long, glabrous; bracts subulate-lanceolate, acute, entire, up to 1} lin. 
long, glabrous. Male flowers: Sepals lanceolate, subacute, slightly 
keeled, entire, glabrous, 1} lin. long. Petals free to the base, elliptic, 
obtuse, entire, glabrous, 2} lin. long, 1 lin. broad. Disk-glands large 
and rounded, contiguous, fleshy, glabrous, Stamens 8 ; filaments par- 
tially connate ; anthers 3 lin. long. Female flowers shortly pedicellate : 
Sepals larger than in the male, but similar. Petals absent. Disk 
deeply 5-lobed ; lobes rounded, smooth: Ovary smooth, glabrous ; 
Styles erect, as long as the ovary. Fruits not seen.—/. lobata, subsp, 
«eroides, Pax in Engl. Pflanzenr. Euphorb.-Jatroph. 34. 
Wile Land. Sudan: Red Sea Province; Khor Ashat, Broun, 1229! Nubia: 
Ataba, Schweinfurth, 129, 842! 
. 24, J. tropexolifolia, Pax in Engl. Pflanzenr. Euphorb.-Jatroph. 
56. Stem thick and fleshy, simple, about 15 in. high, about 1 in, in 
diam. Leaves 5-lobed to about the middle, up to 3 in. long and 3} in. 
broad, chartaceous, glabrous and somewhat glaucous ; lobes rounded- 
obovate, truncate at the apex and with a gland-tipped mucro, entire or 
with 2-3 gland-tipped teeth; lateral nerves to each lobe looped well 
Within the margin, 4-5 on each side; petiole 4-5 in. long, sulcate, 
glabrous, 3 lin. in diam.; stipules spiny, about 3 in. long, broader at 
the base. Flowers and fruit not known. 
. Mile Lana. Somaliland: Merehan, Rodecchi, 105, 275! 
