798 cxxii. EUPHORBiACE^ (iiuTCUiNSON). [Jatropha, 



on each side; petiole 1^-4 in. long, densely pubescent; stipules spiny, 

 2-.S-furcate above the middle, about ^ in. long, gland-tipped, shortly 

 pubescent to the apex;. Cymes longer than the leaves, few-flowered, 

 densely pubescent ; peduncle 3-4 in. long; bracts linear, gland-toothed, 

 up to 4 lin. long, pubescent. Male flowers seen only in a young state. 

 Sepals linear, pubescent, slightly glandular. Female sepals in the 

 fruiting stage linear, with long-stalked glands on the margin. Ovary 

 glabrous. Young capsule nearly J in. long. — Pax in Engl. Pflanzenr. 

 Euphorb.-Jatroph. o8, fig. 22. 



Wile Ziand. Hnrar: ^Va.h\, Elf enhecl; 113o'. 



43. J. fissispina. Pax in Engl. Jahrh. xliii. 83. A shrub with 

 thick somewhat fleshy branches, the latter softly tomentose when young. 

 Leaves deeply o-G-partite, about 2J in. long and 3 in. broad ; segments 

 oblanceolate, acute, glandular-dentate, thinly chartaceous, pubescent on 

 both surfaces ; petiole 1 J-2 in. long, softly tomentose ; stipules modified 

 into 2-o-lobed' hard wide-based pubescent spines, about 5 lin. long. 

 Cymes lax, long-pedunculate, the flowering part about 2 in. long; 

 peduncle 2-3^ in. long ; bracts linear, up to 3 lin. long, with several 

 glandular teeth, softly pubescent. Male flowers: Sepals lanceolate, 

 acutely acuminate, 1 lin. long, glandular-toothed, pubescent. Petals 

 oblong, acute, glabrous, about as long as the sepals. Disk-glands small. 

 Stamens 8 ; filaments partially connate. Female sepals similar to the 

 male but longer. Ovary glabrous. — Pax in Engl. Pflanzenr. Euphorb.- 

 Jatroph. 58. 



Mozamb. Dlstr. German East Africa: eastern base cf <)1 Dongo, Merler, 

 5701 



40. MILDBR^DIA, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xHii. 31 1>. 



Flowers dioecious. Petals present. ISTale flowers : Sepals 5, imbri- 

 cate. Petals 5, free, imbricate, equalling or exceeding the sepals. 

 Disk -glands 5, fleshy, glabrous, opposite the sepals. Stamens 10-20, 

 inserted on a hairy receptacle ; outer filaments free, short, the inner 

 slif'htly connate at the base ; anthers introrse, dehiscing at the side, 

 erect in bud. Rudimentary ovary absent. Female flowers : Sepals and 

 petals a little larger than in the male, but otherwise similar. Disk 

 annular or 5-lobed, hairy or glabrous. Ovary 3-celled ; styles free or 

 slightly connate at the base, bifid, bilobed or tripartite ; ovules solitary 

 in each cell. Capsule loculicidal, trilobed ; exocarp thin, crustaceous ; 

 ^ndocarp a httle thicker, slightly woody. Seeds subglobose or ellipsoid, 

 about J in. in diam. ; testa mottled, slightly shining, smooth. — Shrubs 

 or trees with stellate or subsimple indumentum. Leiwes alternate, 

 long-petiolate. penninerved or digitately nerved and 3-7-lobed, dentate ; 

 stipules subulate, deciduous. Flowers in axillary or supra-axillary 

 pedunculate few-flowered racemes of cymules. 



Species 4, endemic. 



Pax described the inHorescence of Mildbreedia as paniculate, and that of 

 Jfeojatropha (= MUdbrcedia) as cymose. It scemsto me to be cymose in both cases, 



