968 cxv. EUPHOEBiACB^. [Microdesmis 



glabrous, distantly penniveined above the base, delicately re- 

 ticulate, 3J in. long by 2 in. broad, somewhat glossy on both 

 faces, slightly paler beneath, remotely crenate-serrate ; petiole 

 somewhat dusky, channelled above, | in. long; infrutescence 

 racemose or further branched, glabrous; pedicels about | in. 

 long, often lenticellate, patent; fruit ellipsoidal, longitudinally 

 marked with 5 or 6 broad ridges and intervening furrows, 

 transversely furrowed across the middle, glabrous or minutely 

 glandular, narrowed near the apex where it is crowned with 

 the persistent glabrous reflected adpressed 5 or 6 styles which 

 are connate at the base somewhat dilated at the apex and 

 measure ^ to Jg- in. long, narrowed near the base where remains 

 the small glabrous or minutely glandular 5-cleft calyx, 5- or 

 6-celled, indehiscent, f in. long, i in. in diameter ; seeds solitary 

 in the cells. 



G-OLUNGO Alto. — Among the Queta mountains ; fr. Deo. 1855. 

 Coll. Carp. 934. 



16. JATROPHA L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 290. 



1. J. Curcas L. Sp. PI. edit. 1, p. 1006 (1753) ; Muell. arg. in 

 DC. Prodr. xv. 2, p. 1080 (1866); Ficalho, PI. Uteis, p. 250 

 (1884) ; Pax in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. iii. 5, fig. 45 

 (p. 75) (1890). 



Curcas purgcms Medic. Malv. Fam. p. 119 (1787); Welw. 

 Apontam.. p. 564, sub n. 153 (1859). 



GOLUNGO Alto. — Usually a shrub of 5 to 7 ft., but in the moun- 

 tainous parts of Sobato de Bumba and also near Bango arborescent 

 with a trunk 8 to 10 ft. high and 9 in. in diameter. Everywhere wild 

 about negro villages ; also far from the dwellings of the natives in 

 lonely places, and at the outskirts of thickets especially on a poor soil, 

 sporadic nearly always, rarely in groups ; also cultivated by fences as 

 well as occasionally quasi-spontaneous, as for instance about Bango 

 Aquitamba at Cerco do Cimiterio de Bango ; fl.Deo. 1854 and Feb. 

 1855. The so-called "tapumes" (enclosures) round the "cubatas" 

 (huts) of the negroes are frequently made of these bushes. No. 303. 

 No notes ; fr. Coll. Caep. 928. 



The negroes call this plant " Mupuliica." Two or three of the seeds 

 for a dose are used as a purgative medicine. 



Island op St. Thomas. — No notes. Leaves only. Local name 

 " Glon." Determination quite doubtful. No. 6766. Fr. Dec. 1860. 

 Called " Purgo do Ilha de S. Thomd." Apparently this plant. Coll. 

 Caep. 929. 



The following No. somewhat resembles this species, but the 

 branches, petioles and nerves of the leaves are pubescent and 

 the leaf -blades are denticulate with the short productions of the 

 veinlets beyond the margins; if of this genus, it is probably a 

 distinct species : — 



G-olungo Alto. — A small tree, 4 ft. high ; branches virgate- 

 elongated, erect-spreading, here and there aculeate. In the rather 

 dense Quibanga forests near Sange ; without fl. or fr. May 1856. 

 No. 4899. 



