361 
The specimen is somewhat incomplete, but I have no doubt as to 
its being undescribed after 4G Bisa with all Pax’s new species 
kindly lent to Kew by Prof. En 
1300. Jatropha confusa, dinéchinsos LHophorbiscene-s atropheae ]; 
affinis J. pseudoglanduliferae, Pax, foliis ad medium lobatis, 
sepalis ¢ Pa dentatis valde distincta. 
Frutex ad 2 altus, ramosus, carnosus ; rami crassi, teretes, 
glabri. Folia scnacns suborbicularia, basi cordata, 6-10 cm. longa, 
9-14 cm, lata, circiter ad medium digitatim 5-lobata, rigide sub- 
chartacea, acute glanduloso-serrulata, glabra nervis supra parce 
puberulis exceptis ; lobi oblongo-ovati, acuti, 3-4°5 cm, lati, nervis 
lateralibus utrinque 6-8 distinctis patulis prope marginem ramosis, 
venis subtus distinctis ; petioli 3-10 cm. longi, glabri, eglandulosi; 
stipulae in segmenta linearia 10 dissectae, circiter 4 mm. longae, 
glanduloso-apiculatae, glabrae 'ymae longe pedunculatae, sub- 
thyrsoideae, circiter 4 cm. iaing pedunculi robusti, cm. longi, 
glabri ; bracteae anguste lancaolatae, acutae, ad 1 em. longae, 
mm. longa, 2°5 mm. lata, glabra, ee. dentata. Petala 
sii apice rotundata, vix 1 cm. longa, 5 mm. lata, integra, 
glabra. Disci glandulae magnae, ovatae, ohio 2 mm. longae. 
Stamina 8 ; filamenta inferne connata; antherae magnae, oblongae, 
mm. longae. Flores OQ: Sepala quam ¢ multo majora. Petala 
obovato-elliptica, integra, 1°3 cm. longa, 7 mm. lata, multistriata. 
Discus cupularis, undulate ea, glaber. Ovarium glabrum ; 
styli breves, bilobi, stigmatibus crassioribus. J. lobata, var. sene- 
sensbee Muell.-Arg. in . Prodr., vol. xv., part i. 
e im, J. lobata, subsp. Ste Pax in Engle *, Pflanzenreich, 
uphorb. —Jatroph. p. 33, partim. J, glauca, var. senegalensis, 
Hiern j in Cat, Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 969. 
Tropica Arrica. Angola: Mossamedes ; by fences around 
cotton plantations, half wild, and in thickets at the edges of mandioc 
fields near the mouth of the River Bero, Welwitsch, 299. 
This plant was regarded as a Hegre s fomepalenee} of J. lobata, 
Muell.-Arg. (Croton as ee Forsk.), by Mueller in De Candolle’s 
Prodromus, and later by Hiern and by Pas. though it appears to 
me quite distinct and easily aupabated from that species. Mueller 
associated with it specimens collected by Leli¢vre and by Perrottet 
0. 733) in Senegambia, and these are identical with J. Chevalieri, 
Beille, described from specimens collected by Chevalier in the same 
region. Beille, however, did not recognise the identity of his plant 
with Mueller’s var. senegalensis 
J. lobata, Muell.-Arg. (typical), ve confined to the et Pe eastern 
Sudan an yssinia, extending into Arabia; whilst J. Chevalieri, 
Beille, inhabits Senegambia, and = species "here described has so 
far been found only in pret la. 
