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subtend the five clusters of stamens or male flowers. Ovary and 
capsule pedicellate, somewhat acutely 3-angled and with two narrow 
minutely crispate-denticulate russet-coloured wings along eac 
angle, minutely puberulous. Seeds about 14 lin. long, carunculate, 
oblong, 4-angled, white, minutely and rather obscurely tuberculate ; 
caruncle ochreous-yellow. 
Kwebe Hills, 3,500 ft., rare, only one bed of it, consisting of 
a large number of plants, found at the foot of Kwebe Peak, 
Mrs. Lugard, 22. 
According to a note on Mrs. Lugard’s drawing of this plant, 
the leaves are developed from February to May, and the flowers in 
August. 
Phyllanthus Niruri, Linn. 
Kwebe Hills, 3,500 ft., Mrs. Lugard, 80 ; Lugard, 155. 
Jatropha humilis, NV. FE. Br. Herba pubescens. Rami decum- 
bentes vel patentissimi. Folia petiolata, oblonga vel oblongo- 
lanceolata, acuta, basi obtusa vel rotundata. Cymae terminales, 
multiflorae. Calyx infra medium 5-lobus: lobi oblongi, acuti. 
Petala oblanceolata vel spathulata-oblanceolata, obtusa, glabra. 
Discus 5-partitus. 
A dwarf perennial herb, probably tuberous. Underground stem 
brown, glabrous, bearing a few minute deltoid scales, branching at 
the surface into 2-6 or more decumbent or widely spreading simple 
leafy branches 2-34 in. long, softly pubescent with short spreading 
hairs. Leaves alternate, exstipulate; petiole 14-5 lin. long, 
— ; blade 1-23 in. long, 4-14 in. broad, all oblong or oblong- 
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anceolate, acute, obtusely rounded at the base, or one or more 0 
long, lanceolate or subulate, acute, toothed or entire at the base. 
Pedicels }~14 lin. long. Calyx of the male flowers 1-1} lin. long, 
of the female flowers 1}-12 lin. long, 5-lobed to below the middle, 
glabrous or pubescent, lobes erect, oblong, obtuse or subacute, 
Petals of the male flowers 23 lin. long, 2 lin. broad ; of the female 
flowers 23-34 lin. long, % lin. broad, oblanceolate or spathulate- 
oblanceolate, obtuse, yellow or purple, glabrous. Stamens 5-6, free, 
shorter than the ‘sétalds absent in the female flowers. Disk of five 
very obtuse or subtruncate lobes. Ovary about as long as the 
calyx, pubescent ; styles 3, bifid, 14-14 lin. long, gla rous or 
slightly pubescent at the base. Capsule subglobose, 6-7 lin, in 
iam., pubescent. : 
Kwebe, Lugard 56, 159. : ; 
A very distinct species balaniios to the same group as J, 
Leyheri, Bap and J. natalensis, Miill.-Arg. 
_ Croton zambesicus, Miill.-Arg. 
- Kwebe, Lugard, 246. 
