Jatropha. | CXXII. EUPHORBIACEH (HUTCHINSON), 791 
309! maritime slopes, near Loanda, Gossweiler, 118! at Penedo, Maianga do Povo, 
&e., Welwitsch, 308! 
27. J. confusa, Hutchinson in Kew Bulletin, 1911,361. An erect, 
branched, fleshy shrub, 5-6 ft. high; branches thick, about } in. in 
diam. 6 in. from the apex, terete, glabrous. Leaves suborbicular in 
outline, cordate at the base, 24-4 in. long, 34-5} in. broad, digitately 
5-lobed to about the middle, rigidly subchartaceous, sharply glandular- 
serrulate, glabrous except for the sparingly puberulous nerves above ; 
lobes oblong-ovate, acute, 1}-13 in. broad ; lateral nerves to each lobe 
6-8 on each side, distinct on both surfaces, spreading, looped and 
branched near the margin ; veins lax, distinct below; petiole 14-4 in. 
long, glabrous, not glandular ; stipules divided into about 10 linear seg- 
ments, about 2 lin. long, gland-tipped, glabrous. Cymes long-pedun: 
culate, subthyrsoid, about 14 in. in diam. ; peduncle stout, 4 in..long 
glabrous; bracts narrowly lanceolate, very acute, up to 4 lin, long 
glandular-pectinate, glabrous. Male flowers: Sepals ovate, subacute, 
23 lin. long, 1} lin. broad, glabrous, pectinately toothed. Petals obovate, 
rounded at the apex, 4 lin. long, 24 lin. broad, entire, glabrous. Disk- 
glands very large, ovate, fleshy, 1 lin. long. Stamens 8; filaments 
short ; anthers large, oblong, 1? lin. long. Female flowers: Sepals simi- 
lar to but much larger than the male. Petals obovate-elliptic, entire, 
3 in. long, 34 lin. broad, multistriate. Disk cupular, undulately lobed, 
glabrous. Ovary glabrous; styles short, bilobed, with thickened 
stigmas.—/. lobata, var. senegalensis, Miill. Arg. in DC, Prodr. xv. ii. 
1086, partly. J. lobata, subsp. senegalensis, Pax in Engl. Pflanzenr. 
Euphorb.-Jatroph. 33, partly. J. glauca, var. senegalensis, Hiern in 
Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 969. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Mossamedes; by fences around cotton plantations, 
half wild and in thickets at the edges of mandioc fields near the mouth of the River 
Bero, Welwitsch, 299! 
28. J. Curcas, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. i.1006. A shrub or tree up to 
20 ft. high ; branchlets thick, glabrous. Leaves ovate-rounded, widely 
cordate at the base, undulately 5-lobed or undivided, 34-5} in. long 
and broad, digitately 5-7-nerved from the base, rigidly subchartaceous, 
glabrous and distinctly veined on both surfaces; petiole 34-7 in. long, 
Sulcate, glabrous ; stipules small. Cymes much shorter than the leaves ; 
peduncle 14-2 in. long, glabrous or nearly so; bracts lanceolate to 
linear, entire, the largest 2} lin. long, shortly and sparingly pubescent. 
le flowers: Sepals ovate-elliptic, subacute, 1} lin. long, 1 lin. broad, 
glabrous, entire. Petals oblong-obovate, connate in the lower half, 
densely pilose within, about twice the length of the sepals. Disk-glands 
columnar, about } lin. long, cylindric, glabrous. Stamens 8 ; outer fila- 
ments nearly free, the inner connate. Female flowers: Sepals as in 
the male but larger. Petals free, oblong, obtuse, 3 lin. Jong, 1 lin. 
broad, entire, pilose within near the middle. Disk deeply 5-lobed, 
glabrous, Ovary glabrous ; styles short, connate at the base. Capsule 
ellipsoid, scarcely lobed, about 1 in. long. Seeds ? in. long, } in. broad.— 
Jacq. Hort, Vindob. iii. 36, t. 63; Mig. Fl. Nederl. Ind. i. ii. 392; 
