Jatropha.'] EUPIIORBIACE^ (Prain). 425 



Var. ^j glabrescens (Prain) ; stems as in the type ; leaves as in the type but 

 lees ^ pubescent when young, nearly glabrous when fully developed ; ovary 

 sparingly pubescent ; capsule quite glabrous. /. glahrescetis, Pax & K. Ifqfm, Lc. 



Var. 7, oblongifoUa (Prain); stems up to 1 ft. high, densely hirsute through- 

 out ; leaves oblong, 3-5 in. long, 1 J-2 in. wide, with pubescence as in the type ; 

 ovarj' hirsute ; cocci hirsute. 



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Kalahari Region : var. y : Transvaal ; Lydenburg Distr., Doom Hoek, 4300 ft., 



Burtt^Davy, 7275 ! Witklip, 5800 ft., Burtt-Dary, 7257 ! Swaziland ; Miss Stewart, 

 ■8972! 



Eastern Region; Natal; near Umlaas River, Krauss, 364! near Durban, 

 Gtwinzius, 12! Sanderson, 13! SchlecJiter, 3023 partly! near Maritzburg, Wihns, 

 2164! Camperdown, Eehmann, 7 S12 \ liaxudo., Ilehmarm, 8346 partly! Var. )3 : 

 Natal; Clairmont, Wood, 4656 1 5795 1 65181 Inanda, Wood, 211 i Rehrrutnn^ 

 8346 mainly ! near Durban, Schlechter, 3023 partly ! Gerrard, 381 ! 



The difference between /. Jdrsuta, Hochst., and /. glahrfscens. Pax & K. Hoffm., 

 IS confined to the degree of pubescence. The variety here distinguished as var. 

 ohlongifolia is as regards shape of leaves indistinguishable from /. latlfolia, Pax, 

 but the leaves and stems are even more hirsute than in /. Mrsuta, Hochst. The 

 original gathering of /. hirsuta (Krauss, 364) includes both the type aiid var. 

 0^Qh7*esccns, 



9. J. Woodii (O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PL iii. ii. 287) ; herb up to 

 1^^ ft. high; rootstock stout, perennial; stems leafy, sparingly 

 branched, rather densely hirsute with spreading hairs ; leaves sessile, 

 rather soft, usually pinnately 5-7-lobed, rarely almost entire, base 

 rather narrow-cuneate, lobes entire, acute, margin glandular-setulose, 

 setse rather long, 2|-4 in. long, 3-5 in. across, lobes |-2 in. long, 

 ^•^ in, wide, densely hirsute, especially on the nerves on both sur- 

 faces, nerves underneath prominent; stipules dissected, lobules 

 glanduliform, ^^^ in. long ; cymes rather lax, usually many-flowered, 

 hardly overtopping the leaves ; peduncles 1-1| in. long, very densely 

 hirsute with white soft spreading hairs ; primary branches |-| in. 

 long, densely and softly hirsute ; bracts linear-lanceolate, -^ in. long 

 or less, margins glandular-ciliate ; male sepals naiTOW-lanceolate, 

 softly hirsute with white hairs externally, glabrous within, margins 

 glandular-setulose, ^- in. long : petals oblong, obtuse, silky outside, 

 1 in. long, slightly united at the base ; disc-glands free ; stamens 8, 

 2-seriate, united in a column for over three-fourths of their length; 

 female sepals like the male ; petals as in the male but free at the 

 base, nearly ^ in. long ; hypogynous glands free ; ovary densely 

 hirsute; styles 3, 2-lobed at the apex; capsule oblong, slightly 

 3-dymous, f in. long, i in. wide, pubescent ; seeds narrow oblong, 

 I in. long, I ill. wide. J. Woodit, var. Kuntzei, Pax in Engl. 

 Pjianzenr. Euplwrh, Jatroph. 66, excL Rehnann, 5333. 



Var. 3, vestita (Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xliil. 84) ; herb up to 6 in. high ; stems 

 and leaves more densely hirsute with soft white hairs; leaves smaller, under 2 ni. 

 long. Pax in Engl Pflanzenr. Fnphoi^b. J^troph. 66, fig. 26. /, lanata, Hmr, 

 ^ss. in herb. T,C\V. 



Easter^t Region: mtal ; Ladysniith, 3000-4000 ft., Kuntzel Wood, 4242! 

 Biggarsberg, Pchmann, 7104! Var. )3 : Natal; Ladysmith, Engler, 2725 \ and 

 without precifcie locality, Gerrardy 14 I 656 ! 



