Jatropha.] CXXXV. EUPHORBIACER. (J. D. Hooker.) 383 
lobes quite entire, stipules capillary, bracts and sepals entire.— Wall. Cat. 
7808 (the upper specimen). 
Deccan PrNINSULA; Hyderabad, Heyne; Madras, Shuter; Northern Circars, in 
cultivated ground, Wight. : 
Stems 4—6 in. from a tuberous rootstock, stout, subsimple, terete. Leaves 1-3 in. 
diam., rather thick, very variable in form, glaucous beneath, base cuneate, petiole 
i-i in., stout. Flowers very small. Capsule } in. long.—Wallich’s solitary speci- 
men, received from Wight, has quite simple ovate or oblong-ovate cordate acuminate 
leaves ; those of Heyne, &c., are lobed. 
,, J. GossyPIroiia, Linn. Sp. Pl. 1006; shrubby, leaves 3—5-lobed or -par- 
tite, lobes glandular-serrulate, petiole with branched glandular pales or 
hairs, stipules capillary multifid glandular, bracts and entire sepals glan- 
dular-ciliate, stamens 10-12 monadelphous. Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. 
xv. ii. 1086; Bot. Reg. t. 746 ; Jacq. Ic. t. 633. 
BENGAL, Clarke. SINGAPORE, Maingay (cultivated or an escape).—DISTRIB. 
ative of Brazil, 
A shrub or herb, glabrous or with the inflorescence and leaves pubescent. Leaves 
2-4 in, diam., lobes broadest in the middle; petiole 2-4 in. Male sepals ovate, 
acute; petals purple or red. Capsule ovoid, 3-lobed. 
J. MULTIFIDA, Linn. Sp. Pl. 1006; glabrous, leaves long-petioled orbi- 
cular palmately cut into many narrow entire or lobulate caudate-acuminate 
segments, stipules capillary multifid eglandular, bracts and entire sepals 
glabrous, disk of fem. fl. urceolate. Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. il. 
1089; Wall. Cot. 7801; Salisb. Hort. Paradis. t. 91. 
Cultivated and naturalized in various parts of INDIA.—DISTRIB. Native of South 
merica. . 
A large shrub or small tree. Leaves 3-5 in. diam., glaucous beneath ; petiole 
about as long. Cymes long-peduncled ; flowers scarlet ; anthers linear. 
** Petals cohering to the middle or above it. 
4. J. Wightiana, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 1080; pubes- 
rent, eglandular, leaves peltate orbicular or ovate entire or roundly 5-7- 
obed. lobes obtuse entire, bracts and sepals entire, corolla-tube of malo 
ous within, ovary and styles pubescent. J. peltata, Wight Te. t. 1 
J. villosa in text). J. Curcas, Wall. Cat. 7799 D (in part). ; 
: The Deccan PENINSULA; in dry stony jungles near Coimbatore, Wight. 
low branching shrub, shoots Tasty -villous. Leaves 4-6 in. diam., tomentose 
beneath ; petiole as long; stipules unknown. Cymes corymbose ; peduncle stout ; 
wers pale yellow. Calyx-lobes lanceolate. Corolla salver-shaped, 4 me n 
o% S ovate-oblong, Styles united in a slender column; stigmas 2-partite. Cap 
1n. long, globosely oblong.—I have seen leaves only. 
J. Cvncas, Lina. Sp. Pl. 1006; glabrous except the shoots, leaves long- 
betioled not peltate orbicnlar-cordate entire or 3-5-lobed or angled, ki vles 
Tous or pubescent, corolla-tube of male villous within, ony ree 
glabrous. Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 1080; Roxb, Fl. Ind. Y. 365) 
rand. Foy, Fi, 449; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 403; Gamble Man. Ind. Tim P 3; 
Wah. Cat, Bomb. Pl. 183; Dalz. 4 Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 77; Jacq. ort. 
nd. iii, 36, t. 63; A. Juss. Tent. Euphorb. t. 11, p. 34 A; Wall. Cat. 7 
(n Part) and 7799 (except part of D). J. moluccana, Herb. Russ. 
izeg troUghout INDIA and CEYLON, common near villages, cultivated and natural- 
—Disraig. Throughout the tropics. 
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