Jatropha.| CXXII. EUPHORBIACEH (HUTCHINSON). 793 
glandular ; stipules very small. Cymes pedunculate, few-flowered, about 
jin. long; peduncle 1-2} in. long, pubescent or nearly glabrous; lower 
bracts subulate-lanceolate, acute, 2-24 lin. long, $ lin. broad at the base, 
coriaceous, glabrous, glandular-toothed. Male flowers very shortly pedi- 
¢ellate: Sepals obovate-elliptic, rounded at the apex, 1 lin. long, } lin. 
broad, entire, glabrous. Petals suborbicular, with a slight claw at, the 
base, # lin. in diam., entire, glabrous. Disk-glands small, glabrous. 
Stamens 8; filaments connate in the lower part; anthers } lin. long. 
Female flowers: pedicel 1 lin. long. Sepals narrowly lanceolate, acute, 
3 lin. long, jlin, broad at the base, gland-toothed, glabrous. Petals slightly 
connate at the base, oblong-lanceolate, subacute, 2} lin. long, 1 lin. broad, 
shortly pubescent inside on the lower half, otherwise glabrous. Disk 
fleshy, undulately lobed, glabrous. Ovary oblong-ellipsoid, glabrous ; 
styles erect, free to the base, swollen and bifid at the apex. Capsule 
oblong, 5 lin. long, about 4 lin. in diam. Seeds oblong-ellipsoid, 4 lin. 
long, 24 lin. broad, provided with a large fimbriate caruncle at the 
base, smooth, slightly mottled or spotted——Pax in Engl. Pflanzenr, 
Euphorb,-Jatroph. 35. 
Nile. Land. British East Africa: Lamu Island, Hildebrandt, 1910! 
31. J. glandulosa, Vahl, Symb. i. 80. A shrub about 3 ft, 
high; branches thick, shortly villous when young, at length glab- 
rous. Leaves shortly 3-5-lobed, orbicular in outline, 1-2} in. long, 
1-2? in. broad, rigidly subchartaceous, villous on both surfaces, lobes 
rounded or emarginate, closely glandular-dentate; nerves distinct on 
both surfaces ; petiole 1-2} in. long, villous, not glandular ; stipules 
reduced to a mass of glands. Cymes few-flowered, long-pedunculate, the 
largest about 2 in. in diam., villous; peduncle 14-24 in. long; bracts 
oblong-lanceolate, glandular-toothed, densely pubescent. Male flowers 
subsessile: Sepals slightly oblanceolate, subacute, 1 lin. long, slightly 
glandular-toothed, pubescent outside. Petals connate in the lower two- 
thirds; corolla-tube subcampanulate, 14 lin. long, glabrous outside, 
pubescent within; lobes broadly ovate, rounded at the apex, 1 lin. 
long and broad, glabrous. Disk-glands oblong-obovoid, fleshy, glabrous. 
Stamens 8; filaments connate for about half their length, glabrous; 
anthers 4 lin. long. Female flowers very shortly pedicellate: Sepals 
densely pubescent, gland-toothed. Petalsabsent. Disk 5-lobed; lobes 
fleshy, subentire or slightly toothed, glabrous. Ovary ovoid-glebose, 
glabrous ; styles erect, free to almost the base, swollen and slightly bifid 
at the apex.—Desr. in Lam. Encyl. iv. 7. J. pelargoniifolia, Courb. in 
Ann. Sci. Nat. 4me sér. xviii. 150. J. villosa, including var. genwina, 
Miill. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 1085. J. villosa, var. glandulosa, Pax 
m Engl. Pflanzenr. Euphorb.-Jatroph. 45. | Croton villoswm, Forsk. FI. 
igypt.-Arab. 163. Adenoropium Forskalii, Pohl, Pl. Bras. Icon. & 
Scr. i. 15, 
Nile Land. Nubia: Gebel Iskeneb, Schweinfurth, 934! Eritrea: Massowa, 
Hildebrandt, 737 | Somaliland; Merehan, Rodecchi, 105. Galla Highlands; Boran, 
Ellenbeck, 2185, 
Occurs also in Southern Arabia. 
