Jatropha.'\ CXXII. EUPHORBIACEiE (HUTCHINSON). 791 



309! maritime slojjes, near Loaiula, Gossiveiler, 118! at Ptuedo, Maiaiiga do Povo 

 (fee, Welwitsch, 308 ! 



27. J. confusa, Hutchinson in Kew Bulletin, 1911, oOl. An erect, 

 branched, fleshy shrub, 5-G ft. high ; branches thick, about \ in. in 

 diam. G in. from the apex, terete, glabrous. Leaves suborbicular in 

 outhne, cordate at the base, 2J-4 in. long, 3^-5^ in. broad, digitately 

 5-lobed to about the middle, rigidly subchartaceous, sharply glandular- 

 serrulate, glabrous except for the sparingly puberulous nerves above ; 

 lobes oblong-ovate, acute, 1^-1 J in. broad ; lateral nerves to each lobe 

 G-8 on each side, distinct on both surfaces, spreading, looped and 

 branched near the margin; veins lax, distinct below; petiole lJ-4 in. 

 long, glabrous, not glandular ; stipules divided into about 10 linear seg- 

 ments, about 2 lin. long, gland-tipped, glabrous. Cymes long-pedun 

 culate, subthyrsoid, about IJ in. in diam. ; peduncle stout, 4 in. long 

 glabrous; bracts narrowly lanceolate, very acute, up to 4 lin. long 

 glandular-pectinate, glabrous. Male flowers: Sepals ovate, subacute, 

 2 J lin. long, Ij lin. broad, glabrous, pectinately toothed. Petals obovate, 

 rounded at the apex, 4 lin. long, 2J lin. broad, entire, glabrous. Di.sk- 

 glands very large, ovate, fleshy, J. lin. long. Stamens 8 ; filaments 

 short ; anthers large, oblong, 1 J lin. long. Female flowers : Sepals simi- 

 lar to but much larger than the male. Petals obovate-elliptic, entire, 

 J in. long, oh lin. broad, multistriate. Disk cupular, undulately lobed, 

 glabrous. Ovary glabrous ; styles short, bilobed, with thickened 

 stigmas. — ./. lobata, var. seneyalensis^ Miill. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 

 108G, partly. J. lobata, subsp. senegalensis, Pax in Engl. Pflanzenr. 

 Euphorb.-Jatroph. "d'd, partly. J. glaaca, var. seiiegalensis, Hiern in 

 Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. DGD. 



^ower Guinea. Angola : Mossamedes ; by fences around cotton plantations, 

 half wild and in thickets at the edges of mandioe fields near the mouth of tiie Kiver 

 Bero, Wehoitsch, 299 ! 



28. J. Curcas, Linn. Sp. PI. ed. i. lOOG. A shrub or tree up to 

 20 ft. high ; branchlets thick, glabrous. Leaves ovate-rounded, widely 

 cordate at the base, undulately 5-lobed or undivided, o\-b^ in. long 

 and broad, digitately 5-7-nerved from the base, rigidly subchartaceous, 

 glabrous and distinctly veined on both surfaces ; petiole 3J-7 in. long, 

 sulcate, glabrous ; stipules small. Cymes much shorter than the leaves ; 

 peduncle lJ-2 in. long, glabrous or nearly so; bracts lanceolate to 

 linear, entire, the largest 2| lin. long, shortly and sparingly pubescent. 

 Male flowers : Sepals ovate-elliptic, subacute. If lin. long, 1 lin. broad, 

 glabrous, entire. Petals oblong-obovate, connate in the lower half, 

 densely pilose within, about twice the length of the sepals. Disk -glands 

 columnar, about J lin. long, cylindric, glabrous. Stamens 8 ; cuter fila- 

 ments nearly free, the inner connate. P'emale flowers : Sepals as in 

 the male but larger. Petals free, oblong, obtuse, 3 lin. long, 1 lin. 

 broad, entire, pilose within near the middle. Disk deeply o-lobed, 

 glabrous. Ovary glabrous ; styles short, connate at the base. Capsule 

 ellipsoid, scarcely lobed, about 1 in. long. Seeds | in. long, J in. broad. — 

 Jacq. Hort. Vindob. iii. 3G, t. G3 ; Miq. Fl. Nederl. Ind. i. ii. 802 ; 



