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Jatropha.\ EUPHORBIACE.E (Prain). 423 



3, 2-lobed at the apex ; capsule 3-dymous, ovate, \ in. across ; cocci 

 oblong, glabrous ; seeds wide ovate-oblong, ^ in. "long, | in. wide. 

 Da Prodr, xv. ii. 1083; Wood, Natal PlL 24i> ; Pax in EnyL 

 Pfianzenr, Euphorh, Jatroph. 65, 



Eastern Region : Natal ; Tugela River, near Colenso, 3000-4000 ft., Gei-irird, 

 3633! Wood, 3391! Relimann, 7168! Bimock-Broicn, 77iQl Weenen County, 

 Mooi River Valley, 2000-3000 ft., Sutherland I Griffins Hill, Eastcourt, 3000- 

 4000 ft., Rehmann, 7313! Wood, 3391! Newcastle, Arnolds farm, Rt^hmann, 

 7048 I near Ladysmith, 4000 ft., Wood, 4243 ! 7950 I Rchmann, 7137 ! Rogers, 682 ! 



6. J. lagarinthoides (Sond. in Linmea, xxiii. 118) ; herb up to 

 8 in. high ; rootstock stout, perennial ; stems leafy, simple or 

 branched, usually several from the same base, hispid pilose upwards ; 

 leaves sessile, papery, lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, acute or obtuse, 

 base narrowed or rounded, margin entire or occasionally 1-dentate 

 (very rarely 2-dentate) near the base on each side, 1-2^ in. Ion 

 ^-J in. wide, glabrous on both surfaces ; stipules setaceous, entire 

 or 2-fid, not gland-tipped, subpersistent ; cymes rather dense, few- 

 flowered, hardly overtopping the leaves ; peduncles patently hirsute, 

 :|-J in. long ; primary branches patently hirsute, l-l in. long ; bracts 

 linear-lanceolate, margins closely lacerate-ciliate, glabrous, up to ^ in. 

 long ; male sepals lanceolate, closely glandular-denticulate, glabrous ; 

 petals spathulate-oblong, obtuse, ^ in. long, free ; disc-glands free ; 

 stamens 8, filaments of both series united below in a column, the 

 outer 5 free in their upper half, the inner 3 free in their ujjper 

 fourth ; female sepals like the male sepals ; petals as in male but 

 larger ; ovary glabrous, tubercular-scabrous throughout ; styles 3, 

 united below, 2-lobed above ; capsule very slightly sulcata, oblong- 

 ovate, hardly 3-dymous, ^ in. aci'oss ; cocci narrow oblong, tubercular- 

 scabrous, glabrous ; seeds narrow-oblong, -J- in. long, ^ in. wide, 

 JBalll, Adansonia, iii. 149; MiilL Arg. in DC, Prodr, xv. ii. 108S ; 

 Pax in EngL Pjlanzenr. Euphorb. Jatro])}i. ^^jfig. 25. 



Var. 3, cluy tioides (Prain) ; leaves larger, firmer, ovate -lanceolate to lauceolate, 

 1-3 in. long, §-| in. wide, in all other respects as in the type. /. cluytioides, 

 Pax d: K. Ho^m, Lc. 65. /. latlfolia, var. slenophylla^ Pax, l.c, 133. 



Kalahari Rkgion : Transvaal ; Magaliesberg Ringe, Burhe, 65 mainly I 

 Zeyker, 15741 near Pretoria, Fekrl ScJdechter, 3703! Derde Poort, Mhs 

 Zeendertz, 377! Irene, Miss Leendertz, 677! Pinedene, near Irene, BurU-Dary, 

 2313 ! Var. j8 : Transvaal ; Magaliesberg Range, Burhe, 65 partly! near Middel- 

 l>urg, Sckkchter, 3790 ! Witbank, Gilfillan in Herb, Galpin, 7237 ! between Porter 

 and Trigardrifontein, Rehmann, 6596 ! 6661 ! 



A very distinct species of which the plant described as J. cluytioides would 

 appear to be the more usual form. The two forms appear, however, to pass into 

 each other and to be conditions of one specie^; rather than distinct varieties. 



7. J. latifolia (Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xxiii. 531); herb up to 1 ft. 

 ^,igh ; rootstock stout, perennial ; everywhere glabrous ; stem leafy, 

 simple or sparingly branched ; leaves sessile, subcoriaceous, oblong 

 or ovate, acute, base rounded, margin closely and minutely glandular- 

 denticulate, 2^-4i in. long, 1-1^ in. wide j stipules setaceous, entire 



