688 MONOECIA MONADELPHIA, Jatropha, 
2. I. glandulifera. Roxb. ss 
Calycled, sub-arboreous. Leaves palmate, base cordate, 
smooth, lobes from three to five, lanceolar, oblong, acutely 
serrate, each serrature ending in a headed bristle. | Petioles 
naked, Stipules bristly, many-cleft. Flowers panicled, mo- 
nadel phous, sub-octandrous. 
This stout shrub is to be met with in a few gardens about 
Calcutta, where, in from six or seven years they have grown 
to be from four to eight feet high ; from whence they came 
I cannot learn; but as the juice is used medicinally, I sus- 
pect the plant to be well known, if not indigenous at no 
great distance. 
The trunk is short, soon dividing into dichotomous branches 
with smooth, swelled, ash-coloured bark. From fresh wounds 
there issues much thin, clear, pale yellowish juice. 
Leaves about the extremities of the branchlets, alternate, 
petioled, generally palmate; /obes from three to five, oblong, 
the two posterior ones are much smaller'than the other three, 
all are serrate, with each serrature ends in a short, green, 
glandular-headed bristle, from four to six inches each way. 
Petioles as long as the leaves, round, and smooth, Stipules 
bristly, many-cleft, each division ending ina glandular head. 
Panicles terminal, about as long as the leaves. Bractes 
bristly. MaLe FLOWERs most numerous and terminal, small, 
of a pale greenish yellow colour, Calyx five-cleft to the 
base, sometimes ciliate. Corol ample, campanulate. Petals 
cuneate, conjoined toward the base, and there woolly on the 
inside.* Nectary five green glands round the base of the 
conjoined filaments. Filaments about eight, conjoined, An- 
therstwin. Pistillum, no rudiment of one, the staminiferous 
column occupying its place, Femane FLowers few, and 
sub-sessile in the divisions of the panicle. Calyx and corol 
as in the male, Nectary;' five scales round the base of the 
® Wither ci he a may be taken fora hi 
talled one. 
