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Flowers and fruits: — Nov. 1888 (Schweinf.), Dec. 1847 (Hook.), 
Dec. 1889 (Defl.), Jan. 1880 (Balfour), Febr. 1851 (Thomson), March 
1881 (Schweinf.). 
2. Jatropha lobata (Forsk.) Miill.-Arg. in DC. Prodr. XV, 2 (1886) 
1085. Sttbsp. I. glauca (Vahl) Pax in Engler’s Pflanzenreich Heft 42 
(IV, 147) p. 32. 
Croton lobatus Forsk. FI. Aegypb-Arab. (1775) 162. 
Jatropha glauca Yahl Sv mb. I (1790) 78 (ex parte); Rich. Tent, 
f FI. Abyss. II (1851) 250 ; Schweinf. Beitr. FI. Aethiop. (1867) 37. 
Jatropha ricinifolia Fenzl in Kotschy PI. Aethiop. n. 251. 
Jatropha lobata var. genuina Miill.-Arg. in DC. Prodr. XV, 2 
(1866) 1085. 
Jatropha lobata var. Richardiana Miill.-Arg. in DC. Prodr. XV, 2 
(1866) 1086. 
Adenoropium glaucum Pohl PL Bras. Ic. et Descr. I (1827) 15. 
Arabic name : — Tambakshi ghulghul (Hille); Mjershe (Pax 1. c.) 
Description .-—Shrub or undershrub, about 3 — 8 feet high ; branches 
ascending, woody, overhanging towards the ends. Petioles If — 2 inches 
long, eglandular ; limb cuneate-acute or subtruncate at the base, glabrous 
or glabrescent, 2f inches broad and slightly shorter, 3 — 5-lobed almost to 
the middle, glaucous ; lobes acute or rotundate-obtuse, irregularly and 
rather coarsely dentate, the central lobe If— -If inches broad ; stipules 
of the shape of glanduliferous laciniae, simple or bipartite. 
Cymes shortly pedunculate, small-flowered ; bracts lanceolate or 
triangular-ovate, glanduloso-subciliate or subentire, eglandular. Flowers 
small, about f inch long, lutescent or yellow. Sepals of male flowers 
ovate, crenate or entire, of female flowers lanceolate, acuminate, glandu- 
loso-ciliate ; filaments 8, the outer ones shorter, the inner ones longer and 
monadelphous. Ovary glabrous. 
Capsule glabrous, rough-tuberculate, about f inch long. Seed 
smooth, grey, brown-marbled ; caruncle palmate-sulcate. 
Fruits: — March (Schweinf.). 
Locality : — Plain of Maala (Schweinf.) . 
Distribution (of the subspecies) : — Kordofan, Nubia, Abyssinia, 
British Somaliland, Eritrea, Arabia. 
Subspecies II senegalensis (Miill.-Arg.) Pax is confined to Senegam- 
bia and Benguela, whilst 
Subspecies III aceroides PaxetK. has been found in Nubia only 
between Suakin and. Berber. 
