-Jarropa Panpurgrouia, Fiopur-Leaven 
ae RAY UR-NUR eas Sees 
shituk ks dcieisishl ahaa a nl es 
ode” GB/s cai eane otk sag cat vie ods 
Mon zcia MonapeLPHIA. 
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Ss aves Generic Charaster.” ip. Agia 
“Masc. ‘Cal. (fepius) o. Cor. ‘ipetala infundibuliformis, 
Stam. 10, alterna’ breviora. ON Si sepe -Si60! 
Fem. Cal. (fepius) o. Cor. 5-petala patens. Svy/i gv bifid, 
Capf. 3-locularis. | | Lee 
Specific Chara&er and ‘Synonyms. ss 
JATROPHA pandurefolia ; foliis fimplicibus” pandureformis 
bus acuminatis bafi {pinulofo-dentatis, fruétibus 
cernuis fubrotundis. Pa cee a 
JATROPHA imperialis Petropolitana, . Fraferk.. 9 
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Both the male and female flowers are furnifhed with 
which in the latter is divided to the bafe and perfiftent 
male the lacinia are fhorter and divided only half way. In Pe 
the corolla appears to be pentapetalous, but more decidedly fo ! 
In the female flower; in the male the calyx adheres fo clofely 
to the corolla as to refift its feparation and render it difficult to 
decide whether it be monopetalous or polypetalous. The 
-flowers grow in an umbellated dichotomous panicle on long 
terminal peduncles. The pedicle in the centre of the dicho- 
tomy always bears a female flower, the fide branches all male. 
he latter are of courfe much the moft numerous. The female 
flowers are firft expanded and of fhort duration; fo that 
at firft thefe appear to be all female and afterwards all male, 
both fexes feldom appearing at the fame time. The fecunda- 
Hon of the germen muft therefore depend upon its receiving 
the pollen from other plants, or at leaft from the flowers 
of different branches, and not from thofe neareft it. Flowers. _ 
and fruit exift frequently at the fame time, the former ereét, 
