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FLORA OF ADEN. 
1. Jatroplia spinosa (Forsk.) Vahl Symb. I (1790) 79 ; 
Anders. Journ. Linn. Soc. V, Suppl. p. 36 ; Pax in EngleFs Regni Veg. 
Consp. 42. Heft (IV, 147) p. 55. 
Croton spinosus Forsk. FI. Aeg.— Arab. (1775) p. 163. 
Jatropha aculeata F. G. Dietr. Lexicon Gaertn. u. Bot. Nacbtr. IV 
(118) 76 ; Muell.-Arg. in DC. Prodr. XV, 2, (1866), 1083. 
Adenoropinm spinosum Pobl PI. Bras. Ic. et Descr. I (1827), 15. 
Arabic name : — Badr-es-Simssim. 
Description : — An arborescent shrub, 7 — 8 feet high, erect, glabrous, 
with a milky juice. Branches thick-fleshy, terete; cortex cinereous- 
glaucous or purplish. Petioles slender, 1 — -l^- inches long. Leaves 1J — 
2f inches long and broad, often broader than long, alternate, petiolate, 
rotundate, 5 — 7 -nerved, subtruncate-cordate at the base, glaucescent, 
glabrous, 3 — 5-lobed or obscurely 7-lobed ; lobes rotundate-obtuse, 
emarginate or subretuse, entire or spinuloseudenticulate, stipules sharp- 
spinose, f f inch long, black or glaucous. 
Cymes with elongate peduncles, terminal, dichotomous, lax, glabrous, 
multiflowered, 4—5 inches long. Bracts small, dilate at the base, acute, 
scarious, entire, y 1 ^ inch long. Flowers yellowish-green (Forskal calls 
them ‘ coccineos ’), mostly subsessile, monoecious. Sepals 5, glabrous, 
lanceolate-ovate, obtuse, in the male flowers y^ inch long, in the female 
only slightly longer. Petals 5, twice or thrice as long as the calyx. 
Glands of the disk free. Stamens 8, monadelphous. Ovary sessile, 
glabrous ; styles convolute, 3, free ; stigmas peltate. 
Capsules | inch long, greyish-yellow, glabrous, verruculose, woody, 
tricoccous. Cocci monosperinic. Seeds light brown ; caruncle palmate- 
lac er ate. 
Var, ol. genuina Pax in Engler's Regni Veg. Consp. Heft 42 
(IV, 147) p. 56. 
The leaves are larger, If— 2f inches long and longer and as broad ; 
lobes obtuse or retuse, entire. 
Locality : — Goldmore Valley (Schweinf., Lunt) ; Shum Shum Range 
at 650 — 1,650 feet (Ellenbeck, Busse) ; without locality (Balfour, 
Hildebrandt). 
Distribution S. Arabia, N. African Steppe-province. 
Var, /3. crenulata Pax 1. c. p. 56. 
Lobes rotundate or acute, crenulate-dentate. 
Locality : — Maala (Hirsch, Schweinf.), 
Distribution : — S. Arabia, N. African Steppe-province. 
