Tas. 4376. 
JATROPHA popacrica. 
Gouty-stalked Jatropha. 
Nat. Ord. Evpnorprace®.—Monecia MOoNADELPHIA. 
Gen. Char. Flores monoici. Calyx 5-partitus eestivatione convolutiva. Corolla 
petala 5, calyce longiora, zxstivatione convolutiva, cum glandulis 5 alternantia. 
Stamina 8-10 ; filamentis inferne connatis, superne filiformibus liberis, antheris 
introrsis bilocularibus. Fm. ovarium glandulis 5 cinctum, triloculare, loculis 
uniovulatis. Sfyli 3, bilobi bifidive aut pluries dichotomi: stigmata crassa. 
Capsula 3-locularis, coccis monospermis.—Arbores v. frutices, aut rarius herbe 
lactescentes, foliis allernis integris v. sapius palmatilobis, floribus axillaribus aut 
terminalibus corymbosis, sepe late coloratis. 
Jatropua podagrica ; caule erecto ramoso ramisque basi valde intumescentibus, 
foliis peltatis cordatis 5-lobis glabris lobis subovatis obtusissimis, stipulis 
glanduloso-fimbriatis, cymis longe pedunculatis terminalibus, calycis den- 
tibus obtusis, corolle lobis ovatis obtusis patentibus. 
A very remarkable new Jatropha from Santa Martha, New 
Grenada, with a singularly distorted stem and branches; much 
swollen at their bases, succulent, pale greenish-brown; the 
main trunk and old branches marked with the almost obliterated 
Scars of the fallen leaves, the younger portions of the branches 
of the plant, which are about an inch in thickness, showing the 
much larger scars of récently shed leaves, rendered more conspi- 
cuous by the persistent, fimbriated, and glandular stipules, one 
on each side the large scar. The cyme of flowers is large, and 
of a rich orange-scarlet. It flowers at almost all seasons of the 
year. 7 
_ Descr. Stem, in our plant, a foot and a half high, much and 
irregularly swollen at the base; branches also swollen at the base ; 
the rest terete, green and succulent, marked with numerous pits 
or hollows whence the leaves have dropped, and with the somewhat 
palmate and deeply pinnatifid or ciliated glandular stipules. Only 
a few Jeaves appear at one time, and they are confined to 
the apices of the branches, on long petioles, cordate, peltate, 
five-lobed, glabrous, the lobes obtuse, entire, somewhat ovate. 
Peduncles terminal, elongated, bearing a rather large cyme of 
JUNE Isr, 1848. a2 
