422 EUPJiORBiACE-E (Prain). {Jatroplia. 



4. J. erythropoda (Pax & K. Hoffm. in Engl. Pflauzenr. Eupliox'b, 

 Jatroph. 66) ; herb up to 5 in. high ; rootstock deeply buried, large, 

 red, astringentj 4 in. long, 1 j in. thick, giving off one or mope apical 

 underground perennial vertical stems 4-6 in. long, whence at the 

 surface spring several slender branching herbaceous leafy stems, 

 glabrous below, softly sparsely white-pubescent above; leaires all 

 shortly petioled, rather firm, irregularly runcinate-pinnatisect, lobes 

 linear or linear-lanceolate again runcinately incised, margin hyaline 

 and spinulose-denticulate, 2-2| in. long, 1^-2 in. wide, lobes J-1 in. 

 long, J-1 in. wide, lobules ^^ in. long, glabrous on both surfaces; 

 petiole i— ^-in. long, softly shortly white-pubescent ; stipules setaceous 

 or subhyaline, persistent, entire or 2-fid ; cymes rather open, few- 

 flowered ; peduncles up to h in. long, softly white-pubescent ; primary 

 branches -^ in. long, white-pubescent ; bracts small, lanceolate, 

 hyaline-denticulate, |- in. long; male sepals connate to the middle 

 in a campanulate tube, above free, triangular, hyaline-denticulate^ 

 ■| in. long ; petals glabrous, linear-spathulate or narrow oblong, \ in. 

 long ; disc-glands free ; stamens 8, the 5 of the outer series almost 



free, the 3 inner connate below; female calyx like male, but rather 

 larger ; petals as in male, but over ^^ in. long ; hypogynous glands 

 free ; ovary glabrous ; styles 3 ; capsule somewhat depressed-globose, 

 ^ in. across, ^ in. long, hardly sulcate, glabrous, verruculose. 

 Hutchinson in Dyer, FL Trojj, Af\ vi. i. 783. 



IvALAHAiu Region ; Bechuanaland ; Chooi Desert, Bnrchell, 2351 1 23a3 ! near 

 Serovve, Schi'mlandj 1655 ! 



Also in German South-West Africa. 



5. J. natalensis (MiilL Arg. in Flora, 1864, 485) ; herb up to 

 2 ft. high ; rootstock stout, perennial ; stems leafy, simple or 

 branched, sparingly pilose with white spreading hairs below, more 

 densely towards the top ; leaves sessile, firm, very variable, occa- 

 sionally all entire, sometimes all lobed, more often a few entire, the 

 majority lobed ; entire leaves lanceolate, orate-lanceolabe or oblong, 

 lobed leaves usually 3-lobed, less often 5-7-lobedj apices of leaf 

 and lobes acute, slightly hyaline-mucronulate, base cuneate, margin 

 hyaline, quite entire or hyaline-denticulate, 4-5|^ in. long, 1J~3 iii- 

 wide, rather sparingly beset with white spreading hairs on the 

 nerves on both surfaces ; stipules subulate, ^V ^^- ^^^S' usually 

 entire, not glandular, very caducous ; cymes rather lax, many- 

 flowered, often hardly overtopping the leaves ; peduncles softly and 

 sparingly hirsute, l|-4 in. long; primary branches hirsute, ^^\ ^^' 

 long ; bracts lanceolate, entire, or the lowest with 2-3 hyaline non- 

 glandular teeth on each side, lowest J- in., uppermost ^ in. long ; 

 male sepals lanceolate, sparingly hairy outside or glabrous, margins 

 quite entire; petals yellow, spathulate-lanceolate, } in. long, free; 

 disc-glands free; stamens 8; filaments of both series united in a 

 column ; female sepals like the male but rather larger ; petals as in 

 male but larger; hypogynous glands free; ovary 'glabrous; styles 



