Jatropha\ cxv. EUPHORBiACEiE. 969 



2. J. glandulifera Roxb. Hort. Bengal, p. 69 (1814), and Fl. 

 Ind. iii. p. 688 (1832) ; Muell. arg., I.e., p. 1084. 



J. glauca Willd. Sp. PI. iv. p. 558 (1805), excl. syn. ; non Vahl 

 (1790). J. gossypilfolia Welw. Apontam. p. 564, sub n. 153 

 (1859), vix J. gossypifolia L. (1753). 



LoAXDA. — An undershrub, leafless at the time of gathering ; root 

 thick ; stems erect, viscid ; flowers red. In very dry places on hard 

 sand soon after the first spring rains ; fl. and fr. Oct. 1853 and Sept. 

 1854. No. 309. A perennial herb, 1 to 2 ft. high, sometimes in every 

 respect herbaceous, in other cases suffruticose, with a thick deeply 

 descending monocephalous or dicephalous juicy root, strongly resem- 

 bling mandioc in habit, remarkable for the presence of red-headed 

 stalked viscid glands on the margins of the leaves and around the 

 stipules ; leaves herbaceous-green, glaucescent-pallid beneath ; flowers 

 bright scarlet, occurring twice in a year, first without the leaves after 

 the October to December rains, and the second time with the leaves. 

 In the drier, sparingly bushy pastures near Loanda, plentiful and 

 ubiquitous at Penedo, Maianga do Povo, etc. ; fl. and fr. Dec. 1853 

 and Jan. and June 1854. No. 308. At Penedo ; capsules and seeds 

 Jan. 1858. Coll. Carp. 927. 



This is the undershrub with scarlet flowers related to the genus 

 Jatropha, which was mentioned by Welw. in Ann. Cons. Ultramar. 

 Lisb., No. 7, Aug. 1854, p. 84, n. 87. 



3. J. glauca Vahl, Symb. Bot. i. p. 78 (1790); non Willd. 

 (1805). 



Croton lohatum Forsk. Fl. ^gypt.-Arab. pp. xcviii. cxxi. 162 

 (1775). J. lohata Muell. arg., I.e., p. 1085. 



Var. senegalensis (Muell. arg., I.e., p. 1086). 



MosSAMEDES. — An erect, branched, fleshy shrub, 5 to 6 ft. high ; 

 flowers yellowish ; capsules as big as a walnut, or even bigger. By 

 fences around cotton plantations half wild and in thickets at the 

 edges of mandioc fields near the mouth of the river Bero ; perhaps 

 formerly introduced ; fl. and fr. July 1859. No. 299. 



4. J. multifida L. Sp. PI., edit. 1, p. 1006 (1753); Muell. arg., 

 I.e., p. 1089. 



Sierra Leone. — An undershrub or even a shrub of 6 to 8 ft. high ; 

 stems, branches and leaves somewhat fleshy ; flowers brilliantly scarlet. 

 Cultivated everywhere by dwellings and also wild in many parts of 

 the district ; about Freetown, fl. and fr. Sept. 1853. No. 298- 



It is cultivated also at Mossamedes. This is apparently the small 

 very elegant tree, with multifid leaves and scarlet corymbose flowers, 

 occurring by fences near Freetown in Sept. 1853, which was mentioned 

 by Welwitsch, Z.c, p. 80, n. 16. 



17. CROTON L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 293. 



1. C. Mubango Muell. arg. in Journ. Bot. ii. p. 338 (1864), and 

 in DO. Prodr. xv. 2, p. 514 (1866); Ficalho, PI. Uteis, p. 251 

 (1884). 



GoLUNGO Alto.— A very elegant tree, 12 to 20 ft. high ; trunk 

 G to 12 in. in diameter ; head widely spreading, depressed at the 

 top, dense, party-coloured ; branches patent : branchlets drooping ; 

 flowers monoecious, white, spicately racemose or typically racemose, 

 the racemes drooping. In rather dry sandy hilly places about negro 



