We have never met with hermaphrodite flowers having fix 
flamens, as defcribed by Swartz; when fuch occur, we 
Should confider them as an unnatural union of three flowers in 
one. We fhould refer both this genus and PuyLtuanruus 
to Monecia Monadelpbia and place them immediately after 
Ricinus, with which, and with Croton and Jarrorua, they — 
have a natural affinity. 
The leaf-like expanfions, from the notches on the margins 
of which the flowers grow, two, three, or many together, are 
not true leaves, but rather leaflefs branches flattened into the 
fhape of leaves. 
Native of Jamaica and other tropical parts of America. 
Requires to be kept in the bark ftove. May be propagated 
by cuttings. Introduced in 1783, by Mattuew WALLEN, 
Efg. Flowers in Auguft and September. 
