Mildbredia.| © XX. KUPHORBIACEH (HUTCHINSON). 801 
late, few-flowered, $-} in. long; peduncle 4-6 lin. long, shortly stellate» 
‘pubescent ; bracts subulate, 3-1 lin. long, pubescent. Sepals 5, ovate or 
elliptic, obtuse, 2 lin. long, 1-1} lin. broad, subcoriaceous, minutely 
stellate-pubescent, becoming glabrous where another sepal has over- 
lapped, the margin minutely ciliolate. Petals very broadly obovate or 
orbicular, several-nerved, glabrous, nearly 2 lin.in diam. Disk-glands 
fleshy, slightly pubescent. Stamens 15; filaments glabrous. Receptacle 
shortly pubescent. Female cymes pedunculate, inserted about 4 lin. 
above the leaf-axils, few-flowered; peduncle 2-23 in. long, flattened, 
stellate-pubescent ; bracts as in the male; pedicels about 4 lin. long. 
Sepals ovate, obtuse, stellate-pubescent. Disk small, pubescent. Ovary 
ovoid, densely setose with simple hairs and stellate-pubescent ; styles 
erect, pubescent in the lower part. Capsule not known.—Jatropha 
fallax, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii. 284. Neojatropha fallax, Pax in 
Engl. Pflanzenr. Euphorb.-Jatroph. 115, fig. 41. 
Wile Land. British East Africa: near Magi Chumoi, Kassner, 458 ! 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Dar-es-Salaam, Holtz, 388! 
4. M. carpinifolia, Hutchinson. A shrub about 7 ft. high; 
branchlets rather densely stellate-pubescent. Leaves, petiole and 
stipules as in .V. fallax. Male cymes slightly supra-axillary, few- 
flowered; peduncle 14-21 in. long, shortly stellate-pubescent ; bracts 
subulate, up to 2 lin. long; pedicels short. Male flowers not seen. 
Female cymes few-flowered, supported by a peduncle about 1 in. long. 
Sepals ovate-lanceolate, stellate-pubescent. Petals broadly oblong, 
obtuse. Disk, ovary, fruit and seeds as in M. fallaw—Jatropha 
carpinifolia, Pax in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 240, and in Engl. Jahrb. 
Xxili. 529. Neojatropha carpinifolia, Pax in Eng). Pflanzenr. Euphorb.- 
Jatroph. 114. 
Mozamb. Distr. Zanzibar: Kidoti, Hildebrandt, 1118! German East 
Africa: Usaramo ; Kidenge, Stuhlmann, 6372! 
_ More complete material of the last two species will probably show that the 
differences given in the key are of little value. : 
41. CLUYTIA, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 302. 
Flowers dicecious or very rarely monecious. Petals present. Male 
Owers: Sepals 5, imbricate. Petals more or less equalling the sepals, 
clawed, with 1 to several glands within the base. Disk-glands 3-5-lobed 
at the base of or adnate to the sepals. Stamens 5; filaments connate 
around and supporting a dilated rudimentary ovary ; anthers short, 
dorsifixed, dehiscing longitudinally. Female flowers: Sepals and petals 
48in the male. Disk often as in the male, but sometimes the bottom of 
the calyx eglandular. Ovary 3-celled; styles free or shortly connate at 
the base, bifid or bilobed ; ovules solitary in each cell. Capsule small, 
subglobose, septicidally dehiscent into 3 entire or bifid valves; septa 
thin, free or adhering to the columella. Seeds ovoid, carunculate ; testa 
‘tustaceous, black and shining; albumen fleshy; cotyledons flat and 
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