784 cxxii. EUPHORBiACE.t: (hutciiinson). \Jatropha, 



J. degans, Klotzsch in Seem. Bot. Voy. Herald, 102. Adenoropium 

 eleganSf Pohl, PI. Brasil. Ic. et Descr. i. 15. A. gossi/pifolmm , Pohl, 

 I.e. 16. 



Upper Guinea. Without locality, Don! Senegal, Lelievre ! French 

 Guinea: Santana, Chevalier, 515! Comakry, Chevalier, 12126! Sierra Leone: 

 near Kambia, Scarcies, Scott-EUiot, 4624 ! and without precise locality, Afzeliiis. 

 Gold Coast : Krause, 10, 40, 99. Cape Coast Castle, J'ogel ! Togo : near Lome, 

 Warnecke, 286 ! and without precise locality, Doring, 37, Kersting, 32, Kling, 46 ; 

 Dahomey, Tesiu, 288 ! Poisson ! Southern Nigeria : Lagos, Phillips, 17 ! Daivodu, 

 256 ! Oloke Meji, Foster, 273 ! in fences of all Yoiuba towns, Barter, 3353 ! 



Var. staphysagriatfolia, Miill. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 1087. Leaves tomen- 

 tellous above, tomentose below; petiole softly pubescent. — Miill. Arg. in Fl. Bras, 

 xi. ii. 491 ; Pax in Engl. Pflanzcnr. Euphorb.-Jatroph. 27. J. staphysagrifoliaj 

 Mill. Diet. ed. 8, n. 9; Bot. Keg. t. 746. J. Jacquini, Baill. Adansonia, iv. 26S. 

 Adenoropium Jacquini, Pohl, PI. Brasil. Ic. et Descr. i. 15. 



Upper Oalnea. Senegambia, Lelievre! Perrottet, 733. Leprieiir ! 



Widely distributed in the Tropics. 



18. J. multifida, Linn. Sp. PI. ed. i. lOOG. A shrub or tree up 

 to 20 ft. high ; branchlets stout, glabrous. Leaves digitately 11-12- 

 partite ; segments lanceolate, narrowed into a long tail at the apex, 

 narrowed to the base, 4-6 in. long, 1-2 in. broad, deeply pinnatilobed, 

 with very acute lobes, or rarely subentire, glabrous on both surfaces, 

 more or less glaucous below ; petiole 5-G in. long, glabrous, not 

 glandular ; stipules laciniate, about J in. long, segments filiform, not 

 glandular at the apex. Cymes corymbose, pedunculate, 1-2 in. long, 

 1 J-2J in. broad ; peduncle 5-6 J in. long, rather stout, glabrous ; bracts 

 subulate, acute, |-1 lin, long, glabrous, entire, not glandular. Male 

 flowers pedicellate, red : pedicel up to ?> lin. long, glabrous. Sepals 

 connate at the base, ovate-triangular, acute, entire, glabrous, J-1 lin. 

 long. Petals free to the base, obovate, emarginate, o lin. long, \\ lin. 

 broad, striate, entire, glabrous. Disk-glands large, erect, subcontiguous, 

 glabrous. Stamens 8 ; filaments quite free to the base, 1 J lin. long, 

 glabrous; anthers very large, sagittate at the base, IJ lin. long. 

 Female flowers solitary on the primary and secondary axes of the cyme. 

 Sepals and petals as in the male. Disk large, deeply 5-lobed, lobes 

 fleshy, ovate or rounded, entire, glabrous. Ovary ovoid, glabrous ; 

 styles connate in the lower half, bifid and swollen at the apex. Capsule 

 depressed, trilobed, about Ij in. in diam., lobes very slightly keeled. 

 Seeds mottled, broadly ellipsoid, a little over | in. long. — H. B. (fc K. 

 Nov. Gen. et Sp. ii. 105 ; Miquel, Fl. Ind. Bat. i. 2, ,31)2 ; Miill. Arg. in 

 DC. Prodr. XV. ii. 1089, and in Fl. Bras. xi. 2, 495, t. 69, fig. 1; Baker, 

 Fl. Maurit. 322 ; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. v. 883 ; Sesse & Mo<,-. Fl. Mex. 

 ii. 224 ; Pax in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 240 ; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. 

 Welw. i. 960 ; Urban, Symb. Antill. iv. 350 ; Durand k Schinz, 

 Etudes Fl. Congo, 243; Durand & De Wild. Mat. Fl. Congo, ii. 62, 

 and in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2me ser. i. 47 : Pax in. Engl. Pflanzenr. 

 Euphorb.-Jatroph. 40, fig. 13 ; ./. Janijyha, Blanco, Fl. Filip. ed. i. 758 ; 

 ed. 3, iii. 159, with fig. Adeiioi'opmm muUifidum, Pohl, PI. Brasil. 

 Ic. et Descr. i. 16. 



