Jatropha peIargonifolia Courb
A monoecious shrub, 0.2-2 m tall with fleshy stems, brown, papery , peeling bark and densely hairy branches . Leaves with stipules reduced into dense clusters of sticky glands , and 0.4 - 5 cm long , villose petioles , blades palmately 3-5-lobed , velvety -tomentose ,on both sides , 2-4 x 2,5--6 cm , shallowly cordate, glandular denticulate - serate Inflorescence uaually terminal , hairy , 2-12 cm long cymes Male flowers calyx 2-2.5 mm long connate below , margin glandular denticulate : petals c> 4 mm long , connate below , stamens 8,5 outer free , 3 inner connate Female flowers : sepals 3-5 cm long , glandular -denticulate petals 4x2mm , oblong , greenish , connate below , caducous ovary glabrous or hairy capsule glabrous oblong 3-lobed , 7-9x5-8mm seeds oblong , 5-6.5x3 mm greyish -brown caruncle 2.5 mm wide saudi Arabia : Southwestern region Distribution : Africa , Arabia