41 8 EUFIIOKBIACE^ (Prain). [Croton. 



petals oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, with villous margins, otherwise 

 glabrous on both surfaces; disc-glands minute; stamens 15-18; 

 filaments explanate and sparingly hairy below ; receptacle pubescent ; 

 female sepals as in male ; petals rather narrower and shorter than 

 in male; disc thin, glabrous; ovary densely clothed with large, 

 orbicular scales ; styles 2-partite almost to the base, the arms sub- 

 terete, glabrous; capsule 3-lobed, i^ in. long, densely scaly; seeds 

 ellipsoid, brown. Hutchinson in Dyer, FL Trap. Afr, vi. i. 757. 

 C, pulcJtdlus, Mull Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. bl2, partly, hut excluding 

 the Madagascar plant ami syn. KhAzscli ; not of BallL 



Easter!^ Region : Delagoa Bay ; Morakwen, Junod, 3G1 a ! 616 ! 

 Ali^o in Trojncal East Africa. 



XX. JATROPHA, Linn. 



Fin 



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of 5 free glands or sometimes in male, often in female annular, 

 Male: Sepals 5, imbricate, often slightly connate below. Petals 5, 

 usually imbricate, connate below in a tube or free throughout, 

 rarely obsolete. Stamens in our species 8, 2-seriate ; filaments 

 connate below in a column, the 5 outer opposite the petals usually 

 shorter than the 3 inner ; anthere erect, their cells parallel, con- 

 tiguous ; dehiscence longitudinal. Rudimentary ovary 0. Female : 

 Sepals as in male. Petals as in male. Ovary 2-3- (rarely 4-5-) 

 celled ; ovules solitary in each cell ; style connate below, spreadin 

 above, often shortly 2-partite. Capsule ovoid or subglobose, breaking 

 up into 2-5, usually 3, 2-Yalved cocci ; endocarp hard, thin and 

 crustaceous or thickened and woody. Seeds carunculate, ovoid or 

 oblong ; caruncle often deeply lobed ; testa crustaceous ; albumen 

 fleshy ; cotyledons broad, flat. 



Herbs, often with thick perennial rootstocks, or shvvibs -, leaves alternate, 

 usually .scattered, occasionally clustered, petioled or sessile, entire or digitately 

 rarely pinnately lobed, hairs when present simple, sometimes glandular ; stipules 

 ^taceously lobed or partite, rarely rigid and spiny ; flowers disposed in terminal 

 dichotomous cymed. the female solitary, tenuinal, the male lateral. 



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DisTRiB. Species about 160, generally distributed throughout the tropics and 

 extending beyond the tropics into North America and Soutii Africa. 



Shrubs with woody snbaerial stems ; leaves distinctly 

 petioled : 

 Stems 5 ft. high or higher ; leaves ovate-curdate, long- 



petioled ; male petals united in their lower half... ( 1 ) Curcas. 



Stems 3 ft. high or ahorter ; male petals free : 



Leaves wide ovate or oblong, nearly as broad as long, 

 often 3-lobed, less often 5 -lobed or entire ; 

 petioles long : stipules dissected (2) yariifolia. 



