780 CXXII. EUPHORBIACEiE (hUTCHINSON). 



8. J. aspleniifolia, Piw. in Enyl. Jahrh. xix. KJS. A shrub about 

 C ft. liigh ; branches woody, covered with dark brown longitudinally 

 wrinkled glabrous bark. Leaves fern-like, produced on much abbre- 

 viated cushion-shaped branchlets, deeply trilobed, cuneate at the base, 

 about J in. long; lobes subspathulate, lacerate-undulate, glabrous, fleshy; 

 stipules not evident. Cymes few-flowered, congested, shortly peduncu- 

 late, about J in, long, glabrous ; bracts small, toothed. Male flowers : 

 Sepals glandular-denticulate, glabrous (seen only in a young state). 

 Female sepals oblong, as in the male. Petals IJ lin. long, about twice 

 the length of the calyx, obovate or oblanceolate. Disk-glands small. 

 Ovary glabrous, contracted into a short style ; stigmas thick, bifid. 

 Capsule ') lin. long, light straw-coloured, slightly wrinkled. Seeds 4 

 lin. long, grey, with a large palmately sulcate caruncle. — Pax in Engl. 

 Pflanzenr. Euphorb.-Jatroph. 83. 



XVile Xiand. Souialiland: footliills of tlie Abl Mountains, Hildehrandt^ 871 ! 



4. J. spinosa, Vahl, var. somalensis. Pax in Engl. Pflanzenr. 

 Eupliorh.-Jatro'ph. 50. A small shrub about \\ ft. high; branches 

 minutely asperulate. Leaves crowded on short branchlets, trilobed to 

 about the middle, truncate or rounded and subcordate at the base, \-\ 

 in. long, submembranous, glabrous on both surfaces; lobes oblong or 



. obovate-oblong, truncate or rounded at the apex, remotely denticulate ; 

 petiole J-| in. long, glabrous ; stipules spiny, branched from the base, 

 rigid, 1-2 lin. long, glaucous. Cymes overtopping the leaves, peduncu- 

 late, few-flowered; peduncle slender, \\ in. long; bracts triangular- 

 ovate, acute, entire, glabrous, the largest about \ lin. long. Male 

 flowers : Sepals oblong, rounded at the apex, \ lin. long, entire, glabrous. 

 Petals about twice the length of the sepals, glabrous. Stamens 8 ; 

 filaments partially connate. Young female flowers not seen. Capsule 

 4 lin. long, slightly warted, not hairy. Seeds oblong-ellipsoid, 8 lin. 

 long, with a multitid reddish caruncle. 



Xrile Iiand. Somaliland : Soniadu, Ellenleck, 283! Klinis, Hirsch. 

 DiftVrs fioni the ty])lcal form, wliicli is found in Arabia, in having smaller trilobed 

 remotely denticulate leaves ; it may be a distinct species. 



5. J. ferox, Pax in Ann. Istit. Pot. Roma, vi. 185. An arbores- 

 cent shrub \)-V2 ft. high ; branches pubescent, soon becoming glabrous, 

 covered with a smooth dark purplish bark. Leaves clustered on very 

 xhort cushion-shaped branchlets produced in the axils of 2-3 large 

 stipular spines, ovate-orbicular, about IJ in. in diam., undulately 

 trilobed or not lobed, minutely denticulate, shortly pubescent above, 

 more or less tomentose below ; lateral nerves about 5 on each side ; 

 petiole 3-4 lin. long, tomentose; stipular spines f in. long, very acute, 

 rigid. Cymes shortly pedunculate, many-flowered, tomentose ; bracts 

 lanceolate, tomentose, gland-toothed. Male flowers: Sepals linear- 

 lanceolate, acuminate, villous, slightly glandular-denticulate, 3 lin. 

 long. Petals clawed, J in. long, 2 lin. broad, pubescent outside. Disk- 

 glands conical -cylindric. Stamens 10; filaments partially connate; 

 anthers | lin. long. Female flowers : Sepals with numerous glands on 



