Jatropha.] CXXII. EUPHORBIACEiE (HUTCHINSON). 798 



glandular ; stipules very small. Cymes pedunculate, few-flowered, about 

 I in. long ; peduncle 1-2 J in. long, pubescent or nearly glabrous ; lower 

 bracts subulate-lanceolate, acute, 2-2 J lin. long, J lin. broad at the base, 

 coriaceous, glabrous, glandular- toothed. Male flowers very shortly pedi- 

 cellate : Sepals obovate-elliptic, rounded at the apex, I lin. long, J lin. 

 broad, entire, glabrous. Petals suborbicular, with a slight claw at the 

 base, I lin. in diam., entire, glabrous. Disk-glands small, glabrous. 

 Stamens 8; filaments connate in the lower part; anthers ^ lin. long. 

 Female flowers : pedicel 1 lin. long. Sepals narrowly lanceolate, acute, 

 3 lin. long, ^ lin. broad at the base, gland-toothed, glabrous. Petals slightly 

 connate at the base, oblong-lanceolate, subacute, 2 J lin. long, 1 lin. broad, 

 shortly pubescent inside on the lower half, otherwise glabrous. Disk 

 fleshy, undulately lobed, glabrous. Ovary oblong-ellipsoid, glabrous ; 

 styles erect, free to the base, swollen and bifid at the apex. Capsule 

 oblong, 5 lin. long, about 4 lin. in diam. Seeds oblong-ellipsoid, 4 lin. 

 long, 2 J lin. broad, provided with a large fimbriate caruncle at the 

 base, smooth, slightly mottled or spotted. — Pax in Engl. Pflanzenr, 

 Euphorb.-Jatroph. 35. 



Wile Kand. IJritish East Africa: hamn lB\&n<\, JIUdebrandt, 1910 \ 



31. J. glandulosa, Va/d, Symh. i. 80. A shrub about 3 ft. 

 high ; branches thick, shortly villous when young, at length glab- 

 rous. Leaves shortly 3-5-lobed, orbicular in outline, 1-2^ in. long, 

 1-2J in. broad, rigidly subchartaceous, villous on both surfiwies, lobes 

 rounded or emarginate, closely glandular-dentate ; nerves distinct on 

 both surfaces ; petiole 1-2J in. long, villous, not glandular ; stipules 

 r-educed to a mass of glands. Cymes few-flowered, long-pedunculate, the 

 largest about 2 in. in diam., villous; peduncle 1^-2^ in. long; bracts 

 oblong-lanceolate, glandular-toothed, densely pubescent. Male flowers 

 «ubsessile : Sepals slightly oblance^late, subacute, 1 lin. long, slightly 

 glandular-toothed, pubescent outside. Petals connate in the lower two- 

 thirds; corolla-tube subcampanulate, IJ lin. long, glabrous outside, 

 pubescent within ; lobes broadly ovate, rounded at the apex, 1 lin. 

 long and broad, glabrous. Disk-glands oblong -obo void, fleshy, glabrous. 

 Stamens 8 ; filaments connate for about half their length, glabrous ; 

 anthers J lin. long. Female flowers very shortly pedicellate : Sepals 

 densely pubescent, gland-toothed. Petals absent. Disk 5 -lobed ; lobes 

 fleshy, subentire or slightly toothed, glabrous. Ovary ovoid-globose, 

 I glabrous; styles erect, free to almost the base, swollen and slightly bifid 

 I at the apex. — Desr. in Lam. Encyl. iv. 7. J.pelargoniifolia, Courb. in 

 I Ann. Sci. Nat. 4me ser. xviii. 150. ,/. vUlosa, including var. genninaj 

 I Mull. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 1085. J. villosa, var. glandulosa. Pax 

 in Engl. Pflanzenr. Euphorb.-Jatroph. 45. Croton villostim, Forsk. Fl. 

 ^gypt.-Arab. 1G3. Adejioropium ForskaUi, Pohl, PI. Bras. Icon. <fc 

 Descr. i. 15. 



wile Xiand. Nubia: Gebel Iskeneb, 5cAwei»/"''^^» 934 ! Krltrca: Massowa, 

 Hildebrandt, 737! Somaliland ; Merehun, Rohecchi, 105. Galla Highlands; Uoran, 

 EllenhecJc, 2185. 



Occurs also in Soutliern Arabia. 



