FLORA OF ADEN. 
329 
Capsules | inch in diameter, depressed-globose, glabrous, 3-lobed . 
Seeds inch long, 3-gonous, rounded on the back, muriculate in five 
lines. 
Flowers and fruits : — November 1888 (Schweinf.). 
Fruits : — March 1878 (Perry). 
locality : — Gold more Valley (Defl.) ; near the Telegraph-Office of 
Steamer-Point (Schweinf.) ; without locality (Birdw.). 
Distribution : ~ Cape Verd Islands, Senegambia, Guinea, Angola, 
Nubia, Abyssinia, Eritrea, Kordofan, Somaliland, S. Arabia, drier parts 
of India, Ceylon, Java, China, Australia. 
Note .‘—Schweinf urth (in Bull. Herb. Boiss. Vol. VII, Append. II, 
p. 301) considers his specimens collected at Aden as representing the 
variety ft. Thonningii Mull.-Arg. in Linnsea, Vol. 32, p. 19. 
Muller gives the following characteristics of his variety : “ foliis basi 
minus cuneato-angustatis apieeque minus abrupte terminatis 
superioribus interdum fere linearibus.” 
Muller's variety fi. Thonningii is identical with the following : 
Phyllanthus Thonningii Schum. & Thonn. Beskr. Guin. PI. 418. 
Phyllanthus arabicus Hochst. ex Steud. Nom. ed. 2, II, 326. 
Phyllanthus venosus Hochst. ex A. Rich. Tent. FI. Abyss. II, 254. 
Phyllanthus longifolius E. Mey., non Lam. 
3. Jatroplia Linn. 
Herbs, shrubs or trees, often glandular or prickly. Leaves alternate, 
often digitately lobed ; stipules often ciliate. 
Flowers monoecious, in terminal cymes, the central flowers in the 
cyme or its forks usually female. Perianth usually double. Male 
flowers : Calyx 5-lobed or-partite, the segments often coloured, imbricate. 
Petals 5, free or connate. Disk entire or of 5 glands. Stamens 
numerous ; filaments of all or of the interior only connate below ; 
anthers erect, ovate or oblong, the cells parallel, contiguous. Pistillode 
0. Female flowers : Calyx as in the male. Petals sometimes absent. 
Ovary 2 — 4-ceiled ; ovules solitary in each cell ; styles connate below, 
2-fid above, the lobes entire or again 2-lobed. 
Fruit a capsule of 2— -4 cocci ; cocci 2-valved ; endocarp crusfcaceous 
or hard. Seeds ovoid or oblong ; testa crustaceous ; albumen 
fleshy ; cotyledons broad, flat. 
Species about 160. 
Distribution : — Warmer regions, chiefly American and African. 
Stipules aculeate-iudurate . . . . . 1. J. spinosa. 
Stipules not aculeate-indurate ..... 2. J. lobata. 
