384 CXXXV. EUFHORBIACEX. (J. D. Hooker.) [Jatropha. 
A large shrub or small evergreen tree. Leaves 4-6 in. diam.; lobes obtuse or 
acute, quite entire; petiole as long as the blade. Flowers yellow. Capsule 1-1} in. 
— Poison, physic or purging-nut. 
32. TRITAXIS, Baill. 
Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, entire or toothed, penninerved. 
Flowers in terminal dichotomous cymes, moncecious, with the central one 
of each cyme female subsessile, surrounded by many pedicelled males, or 
diecious?P Mar FL. Calyx 5-fid. Petals 5, longer than the calyx. Disk 
of 5 glands. Stamens in 2-3 whorls, the inner or all forming a central 
column; anthers of the outer whorl] erect, of the inner horizontal, cells 
parallel, slits introrse. Pistillode 0. Ferm. ru. Calyx of the male. Ovary 
3-celled ; styles 2-fid. Capsule of 3 2-valved cocci.—Species 3 or 4, Indian 
and Malayan. 
In Genera Plantarum, iii. 392, the calyx is, by misprint, described as 3-fid, and for 
Antitaxis read Anisotazis. 
T. ? Beddomei, Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. 221; quite glabrous, 
leaves ovate or ovate-oblong entire or subsinuately toothed, cymes 
peduncled all male, stamens 8, filaments of the 2 or 3 inner combined 1n à 
slender column, of the outer free forming a whorl at the base of the 
column. 
TRAVANCORE ; at the foot of the Tinnevelly Ghats, Beddome. 
Branchlets slender, terete. Leaves 3-4 in., thinly coriaceous, obtuse or acute, 
base rounded, pale beneath ; nerves 10-12 pair, very slender, hardly stronger beneath 
than the nervules; petiole 4—4 in. Cymes terminal, branched, peduncles and pedicels 
slender. Flowers } in. diam. Calyx obtusely 4-lobed. Petals much longer, oblong. 
Disk-glands large. Filaments slender; anthers broadly oblong, slits lateral.—A very 
obscure plant, unlike in habit to 7. Cumingii, and with no fem. flowers in the male 
cymes, hence perhaps not a Zritavis. The Andaman Island (Port Mouat) plant 
referred doubtfully to Tritazis by Bentham (l. c.) has quite entire leaves with three 
strong basal nerves, and 5 to 6 pair of pinnate ones, and an exceedingly slender panicle ; 
it is referred to T'rigonostemon by Kurz. 
33. ALEURITES, Forst. ° 
Trees with simple or stellate pubescence. Leaves alternate, long-petioled, 
broad, entire or 3-7-lobed, 3-7-nerved from the base, petiole 2-glandular at 
the top. Flowers in lax terminal panicled cymes, mono- dicecious. MALE 
FL. Calyx subglobose, bursting into 2-3-valvate lobes. Petals 5, longer. 
Stamens 8-20, on a conical receptacle, 5 outer opposite the petals, alternating 
with small glands, filaments free; anthers erect, adnate, cells parallel. 
Pistillode 0. Frm. FL. Perianth of the male. Disk obscure or of glands 
alternating with the petals. Ovary 2-5-celled; styles with 2 linear stout 
arms; ovules 1 in each cell. Drupe large; putamen hard, 1-5-celled. 
Seeds with a thick woody testa, albumen thick hard; embryo straight, 
cotyledons broad flat.—Species 3, Asiatic and Pacific. 
A. cordata, Muell. (Dryandra oleifera, Wall. Cat. 7958), a native of China and 
Japan, with broadly ovate-cordate acuminate leaves, and with anthers reflexed after 
flowering, is cultivated at Singapore, and elsewhere in India, but very rarely. 
A. moluccana, Willd. Sp. Pl. iv. 590; shoots and young bavis 
stellately puberulous or tomentose, leaves long-petioled polymorphous ora 1 
to lanceolate or broadly rhomboid and obtusely or acutely 3-7-lob: 
base obtuse or truncete, calyx velvety, petals obovate-oblong bearded within, 
