686 MONOECIA MONADELPHIA, Jatropha. 
dodecandrous; female below, both with five lanceolate, 
woolly petals. tah 
» Joufra, the vernacular name in Silhet, where it grows to be 
a large tree. Flowering time March and April. 
Branchlets proliferous; their tender shoots, clothed with 
minute silver-coloured scales, and no other kind of pubes- 
cence. In C, bicolor, which this most resembles, the scales 
are all ferruginous. Leaves crowded about the divisions of 
the tender shoots, alternate, petioled, broad-ovate-lanceolate, 
serrate, smooth, obtuse with an acumen, having two small flat 
glands on the base of the rib underneath, as in bicolor, but hot 
having the shining silver-like appearance underneath which 
is in that species, from four to six inches long, and from one 
to two anda half broad. Petioles about an inch long, and 
scaly. Stipules small, subulate, scaly. Racemes lateral, 
axillary and sub-terminal, that is from the forks of the tender 
twigs, many times longer than the leaves ; the lower part of 
the large sub-terminal ones is occupied by the female flow- 
ers, and some male ones mixed ; all the rest by the male ones, 
both sorts have equally long pedicels. Bractes small. Male 
calyx deeply five-toothed, scaly on the outside. Petals five, 
lanceolar, woolly on the inside. Filaments twelve, longer 
than the petals, Anther ovate. Female calyx and corol as 
in the male. Stamens none. Germ oval, three-celled, one 
_ ovulum in each, attached to the upper end of the axis, Styles 
three, divided nearly to the base. Stigma simple. 
 . JATROPHA. Schreb. gen. N. 1463. 
~ Male calyx five-parted, Corol from one to five-petalled. 
Stamina about ten, Female calyx and corol as in the male, 
Styles three, bifid. Capsule tricoccous. 
1. J. Cureas, Willd, iv. 560, Asiat, Res, xi. 169. 
Shrubby. Leaves: broad-cordate, five-angled, smooth, 
Both male and female with a five-cleft calyx and five-petal- 
led corol. 
