» 



Jatropha.'\ jeuphoebiace.e (Prain). 421 



styles 3, 2-fid above ; capsule 3-dymous, f in. across, cocci sub- 

 globose ; seeds oblong, \ in. long, \ in. wide. J. triloha, E. Meyer 

 in Dn(j€j Zwei Pfl, JDocumeiite, 194; not of Ceri\ J. heterophylla, 

 Pax in Engl. JaJirb. xxviii, 25 ; not of Heyne, J*, capensh^ Sim, For. 

 . Fl, Cape CoL 310, parfly mi J as to syn. Drege only] not of Linn, f. 



Coast Eegion: East London Div. ; Fort Jackson, 800 ft., Rattroy, 1252! 

 Komgha Div. ; near the mouth of the Kei River, Flanagm}, 2336 ! 

 ■ Kalahari Region : Transvaal ; Komati Poort, 1000 ft.. SchlecUer, 11798 ! 

 • Eastern Region : Transkei ; Baahee River, Drege, 4G31 ! Bowker, 466 ! 

 516 ! Delagoa Bay ; near Louren^o Marques^ Bolus, 9773 1 



F 



J^ 3. J. capensis (Soud. in Linnsea, xxiii. 118); shrub, up to 3 ft. 

 nigh ; twigs stout, obscurely 4-gonous, glabrous ; leaves shortly to 

 distinctly petioled, thinly leathery, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 

 acute, base wide cuneate, truncate or subcordate usually more or 

 less distinctly hastately lobulate with lobules oblong obtuse rarely 

 subacute and rarely as long as the width of the lamina, margin 

 elsewhere entire, 1^-3 in, long, |-1 in. wide, basal lobules never 

 over ^ in. long, usually much shorter, often on lowest leaves of a 

 shoot obsolete on one or both sides, dark green, glabrous on both 

 surfaces, when lobulate distinctly 3-nerved at the base; petiole 

 :j-f in. long, glabrous ; stipules very small, gland4ike ; cymes rather 

 dense, few-flowered, just overtopping the leaves; peduncles f-1^ in. 

 long, slender, glabrous; bracts lanceolate, entire, 1| lin. long, 

 glabrous ; male sepals ovate-lanceolate, acute, glabrous, entire, 

 connate below, 1 lin. long ; petals spathulate-lanceolate, obtuse, \ in. 

 long, quite free, glabrous ; disc-glands free ; stamens 8 ; filaments 

 of both series united below in a glabrous column, free above; female 

 sepals 1 J lin. long; petals as in male, but ^- in. long; disc-glands 

 free ; ovary glabrous ; styles 3. connate below, 2-fid above ; capsule 

 ellipsoid, faintly lobed^ about | in. long; seeds oblong, ^- in. long, 

 \ in. wide. Baill. Adansonia, iii. 149; MiilL Arg. in DO. Prodr. 

 ^y. ii. 1084; Sim, For. Fl Cape CoL 310 {excl syn. Drege), t 16, 

 /</. 9 ; Pax in Etud. Pflanzenr. EupTiorh. Jatroph, 54* Croton capensis^ 



Monogr. 75 ; Spreng, Syst. 



Linn, f Supjd. 422; Thiml. Prodr. 117 



546 ; Willd. Sp.Pl iv. 554 ; Geisel. CroL 



iii. 875 ; E. Meyer in Drege, Zwei Pfl. 1 



Flora, 1845, 82; EcU. d Zeyli. in Linn^a, xx. 213; Harv. Gen. 



S. Afr. PL ed. HooL 33G. 



Coast Region : Uitenhage Div.; near Uitenhage, Pnort Frascrl Zwartkops 

 River, Thunhergl Litij e, 82_19 a! Zeyher, 7351 between Uitenhage and the 

 Coega River, BurchelJ^VTVE^ovi, 1000-2000 ft., T^re^/e, 8219 b ! Little Winter- 

 hoek, Drdfje, 8219^c ! Addo, 1000-2000 ft., EcUon <t Zeyher^ 27! Winterhoek, 

 ^rmiB£ZXQuLr¥ok Elizabeth Div. ; Hankey, Mrs. Patcrtson, 6 ! Albany Div. ; 

 Grahamstown, Bowlcer I lVilliam,9on ! MacOwan, 459 ! Fish River Heights, Mrs. 

 Bowherl JIntton ! Scott FN lot, S82 I Qneens Road, Schonland, 936! Bothas HHl, 

 2000 ft., SchlecJiter, 609S ! Alicedale, Hogers, 4626 ! Fort Beaufort Div. ; Kunap 

 River, Bau7% 1037 ! Queenstown Div. ; without locality, TT niton \ Peddie Div. ; 

 along the Keiskamma River, at Pinedrift, Sim, 25S1 ! 



Central Region: Jansenville Div. ; near Janseuville, 1500 ft., Bolus, 1660 1 



a-nd Karroo, without precise locality, Gill \ 



