792: CXXII. EUPHORBIACEZ (HUTCHINSON), | Jatropha. 
Mill. Arg. in DC. Prodr, xv. ii. 1080; in Mart. FI. Bras xi. ii, 487, t. 
68; Baker, Fl. Maurit. 322; Blanco, Fl. Filip. ed. 3, iti. 159 ; Hook.f. 
Fl. Brit, Ind. v. 383; Pax in Engl. Pflanzenfam. iii. 5, 75, f. 45; in 
Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 240; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 968; 
Cook & Collins in Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. viii. 171, t. 42; Urban, 
Symb. Fi. Antill. iv. 349; Pax in Engl. Pfanzenr. Euphorb.-Jatroph. 
77. J. acerifolia, Salisb. Prodr. 389. J. afrocurcas, Pax in Eng]. Jahrb. 
xliii, 83; in Engl. Pflanzenr. Euphorb.-Jatroph. 79. Curcas purgans, 
Medik. Ind. Pl. Hort. Manhern. i. 90 ; Baill. Etud. Gén. Euphorb. 314, 
t. 19, ff. 10-11. ©. indica, A. Rich. in Ramon de la Sagra, FI. Cub. 
Fanerog. iii. 208. (. Adansonii, Endl. ex Heynh. Nom. ii. 176. 
Castiglionia lobata, Ruiz & Pav. F). Peruv. Prodr. 139, t. 37. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Perrottet, 732. Sierra Leone: Bagauro, used 
as hedges, Scott-Elliot, 40678! Gold Coast: near Cape Coast Castle, Cummins! 
Krause, 12. Tozo: near Lome, Warnecke, 358! Baumann, Biittner, 615, Graf 
Zech, 321. Fernando Po, Mann, 169! 
Worth Central. Eastern Chari; Ndelli, Chevalier, 7905! 
Nile Land. British East Africa: Witu, Thomas, 182! Mombasa, Wakefield ! 
Lower Guinea. Island of St. Thomas, Moller. Gaboon: Jolly, 52! 61! 
Griffon du Bellay, 45! Angola: Golungo Alto, Welwitsch, 303! ‘ 
Mozamb. Distr. Zanzibar, Schmidt, 45. German East Africa: Sseki, 
Jaeger, 342! Amboni, Holst, 2684! aud without precise locality, Busse, 507, 1126, 
Conrad, 367, Fischer, 513, Thomas, 182. Portuguese East Africa: Mozambique, 
Peters, 8! Tete, Kirk! Shupanga, Kirk!  Boruma, Menyharth, 925! British 
Central Africa: Nyasaland; shire Highlands, Buchanan, 250! Mount Milanji, 
Me Clounie, 46! : 
The form described by Pax as J. afrocurcas occurs also in America and India, 
and intermediate specimens are so numerous that I have been unable to retain it even 
as a distinct variety. 
29. J. macrophylla, Pax & K. Hoffm. in Engl. Pflanzenr. 
Euphorb.-Jatroph. 80. Leaves 5-lobed to the middle, about 10 ~ 
long and broad, truncate or widely cordate at the base, membranous ; 
lobes ovate, acuminate, entire, pilose on the nerves below; stipules not 
seen ; petiole about 6 in. long, glabrescent. Cymes long pednneniays 
many-flowered, glabrous ; bracts small, triangular, acute. Male ee 
connate at the base, ovate, obtuse, 1 lin. long, glabrous. Petals ales 
free, ovate, acute, 14-2 lin. long, glabrous. Disk-glands free. Stamens © ; 
3 inner monadelphous Female flowers and fruits not known. 
' Mozamb. Distr. Nyasaland, Bechanan, 670! ie) 
- Pax describes the male petils as “fere Jibera’”? and places the species 1m the 
section Curcas which is characterised by having coynate petals! 
30. J. Hildebrandtii, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 108. An is el 
shrub about 6 ft. high; branches finely pubescent, almost tomentose wail 
young. Leaves usually 3- (rarely 4-5-) lobed to well below the middle, 
ue ; : blanceo- 
1-1} in. long, 14-3 in. broad, glabrous on both surfaces ;. lobes ° saps 
tinct but, 
not 
late or oblong-oblanceolate, subacute, entire or rarely with one or 
minute teeth ; lateral nerves about 6 on each side, branched, ai 
not prominent on either surface; petiole #-1} in.long, slender, glabrous, 
