the latter cernuous. Seed-veffel nearly round, fmooth, three. 
celled, with one oblong large feed in each cell. Leaves apt to” 
vary in form, but in general broadeft towards the point; which 
is acuminate, contracted in the middle, and rounded at the 
bafe*, where it is befet with a few unequal fubfpinefcent teeth, 
apt in luxuriant growth to become auriculated proceffes, as in 
our figure : the margin is refle€ted. The beautiful coloured 
variegation of the under furface is not conftant, difappearing 
if the air has not free accefs to it. The whole plant abounds” 
with a femipellucid milky fluid. : a 
It is a very ornamental fhrub, flowering through the greatef 
part of the year, and appears not to be tender, fucceeding 
beft, according to Mr. Fraser, with very little artificial heat. 
Is a faft grower, and eafily propagated by laying down the’ 
branches, . Introduced. by Mr. J. Fraser,: Nurferyman, 
Sloane-Square, who brought it from the Ifland of Cuba, on 
his return from his laft voyage to North-America. © 
Jacquin defcribes two fpecies of Jatropha, which appeat 
to have confiderable affinity. with this, both with {carlet flowers, 
his baflata and iniegerrima, the firft of which he faw in the 
gardens at St. Domingo, but of Eaft-Indian origin, the other 
in the gardens at the Havannah. i = 
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* This form of leaf Linnavus has called pandureforme, and the term 
having been defined, is well underftood by Botanifts, and may therefore be 
retained, notwithftanding the Pandura of the ancients appears to have been: 
wind-inftrument, bearing no refemblance to the modern violin, 
