798 CXXII. EUPHORBIACER (HUTCHINSON). | Jatropha. 
on each side; petiole 14-4 in. long, densely pubescent ; stipules spiny, 
2-3-furcate above the middle, about 4 in. long, gland-tipped, shortly 
pubescent to the apex, Cymes longer than the leaves, few-flowered, 
densely pubescent ; peduncle 3-4 in. long; bracts linear, gland-toothed, 
up to 4 lin. long, pubescent. Male flowers seen only in a young state. 
Sepals linear, pubescent, slightly glandular. Female sepals in the 
fruiting stage linear, with long-stalked glands on the margin. Ovary 
glabrous. Young capsule nearly } in. long.—Pax in Engl. Pflanzenr. 
Euphorb.-Jatroph. 58, fig. 22. 
Nile Land. Harar: Wabi, Hllenbeck, 1135! 
43. J. fissispina, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xliii. 83. A shrub with 
thick somewhat fleshy branches, the latter softly tomentose when young. 
Leaves deeply 5-6-partite, about 23 in. long and 3 in. broad ; segments 
oblanceolate, acute, glandular-dentate, thinly chartaceous, pubescent on 
both surfaces ; petiole 14-2 in. long, softly tomentose ; stipules modified 
into 2-3-lobed hard wide-based pubescent spines, about 5 lin. long. 
‘Cymes lax, long-pedunculate, the flowering part about 2 in. long; 
peduncle 2-34 in. long; bracts linear, up to 3 lin. long, with several 
glandular teeth, softly pubescent. Male flowers: Sepals lanceolate, 
acutely acuminate, 1 lin. long, glandular-toothed, pubescent. Petals 
oblong, acute, glabrous, about as long as the sepals. Disk-glands small. 
Stamens 8; filaments partially connate. Female sepals similar to the 
male but longer. Ovary glabrous.—Pax in Eng]. Pflanzenr. Euphorb.- 
Jatroph. 58. 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: eastern base cf Ol Dongo, Merker, 
570! 
40. MILDBRA/DIA, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xliii. 319. 
Flowers dicecious. Petals present. Male flowers: Sepals 5, imbri- 
cate. Petals 5, free, imbricate, equalling or exceeding the sopals. 
Disk-glands 5, fleshy, glabrous, opposite the sepals. Stamens 10-20, 
inserted on a hairy receptacle ; outer filaments free, short, the inner 
slightly connate at the base; anthers introrse, dehiscing at the “_ 
erect in bud. Rudimentary ovary absent. Female flowers: Sepals oa 
petals a little larger than in the male, but otherwise similar. Dis 
annular or 5-lobed, hairy or glabrous. Ovary 3-celled ; styles free or 
slightly connate at the base, bifid, bilobed or tripartite ; ovules solitary 
in each cell. Capsule loculicidal, trilobed ; exocarp thin, er paper ica 
endocarp a little thicker, slightly woody. Seeds subglobose or ar ee 
about } in. in diam. ; testa mottled, slightly shining, smooth, S 
or trees with stellate or subsimple indumentum. Leaves eR 
long-petiolate, penninerved or digitately nerved and 3-7-lobed, dentate ; 
stipules subulate, deciduous. Flowers in axillary or supra-axillary 
pedunculate few-flowered racemes of cymules. 
Species 4, endemic. f 
Pax described the inflorescence of Mildbredia as paniculate, and that 2 
Neojatropha (= Mildbredia) ascymose. It seems to me to be cymose In both cases, 
