Jatroplia KITHuKI'.I ACK.K 313 



Sloane says: "This is the most general [purgative] remedy of the 

 poorer sort in the dry belly-ache ; they take of the leaves from -even to 

 twenty-one, and boil them, drinking the decoction." Poultry are fond of 

 the seeds. See Barham, Hortus Americanus, 19. 



:i. J. multifida L. % PL 1006 (1753) & Amcen. v. 383; 

 leaves pahnately deeply lobed, glabrous, lobes L.<viMTal]y 11 (-7), 

 11 P 5 din. L, lanceolate, narrowed into a Ionic tail at apex with 

 1-3 (-5) smaller lobes on each side, much lighter and more or 

 less pruinose beneath.- -Wright M< ,n. 21!) : Sw. Obs. Bot. 3 ( 

 Salisb. ParatL t. 91 ; Griscb. loc. <:it. : .I//"//. .!/'/. /// DC. Prcxlr. 

 xv. j,t. 2, 1089 & in FL Bras. xl. r t. 2, 495, /. 69, /. /; Url,. 

 Si/inb. Ant. iv. 350; Pax tout. <-it. 40; Hutchinson tom. <<'(. 784. 

 Ricinus americanus tenuiter itc. Breijn. Cent. 116, /. .">:'> ; SJnane 

 Cat. 40 & Hist. i. 36. Manihot folio <fec. DHL Eltli. 217, /. 173. 

 J. assurgens foliis digitalis etc. Browne Hist. Jain. 348. Type in 

 Herb. Linn. 



Spanish, or French Physic Nut. 



(Sloane, Barbados, Herb. ii. 95! and Carp. Coll. !) Broivncl Wright \ 

 Liguanea, Broughton ! Parnelll Lucea, Hitchcock; cultivated and appar- 

 ently indigenous in Jamaica and West Indies generally, continental tropical 

 and subtropical America, cult, and subspontaneous in trop. Africa and 

 S.E. Asia. 



Small tree or shrub, 5-20 ft. high. Branches glabrous. Leaves pahnately 

 deeply lobed, glabrous; lobes generally ll(-7), 1-1 '5 dm. 1., lanceolate 

 narrowed into a long tail at apex, with 1-3 (-5) smaller lobes on each side, 

 much lighter and more OP less pruinose beneath. Petiole 1-2 dm. 1., glab- 

 rous. Stipules cut into thread-like, glabrous segments, 1-2 cm. 1. Cy)>ic* 

 corymb-like, glabrous ; peduncle 2-1 dm. 1. Bracts linear-lanceol 

 glabrous, I* 5-2 '5 mm. 1. Pedicels jointed at the apex. Flowers scarlet, 

 glabrous. Male flowers : Calyx 2-2 '5 mm. 1.; segments about half as long, 

 with rounded apex, of a pale coral colour. Petals 4-6 mm. 1. Disk of five 

 glands united at the base. Filaments 8, red, free to the base; anther- 

 Jong. Female flowers : Calyx -Audi petals as in male, petals to G or 7 mm. 1. 

 Ovary glabrous. Styles short, united in the lower half, with thick 2-lobed 

 stigmas. Capsule yellow, with a longitudinal slight ridge on back of tin 

 cocci, 2-3 cm. 1. and br. Seeds mottled, broadly ellipsoidal, about ~2 cm. 1. 



See Barham, Hortus Americanus, 141. 



[J. podagriea Hn/ t : Bot. 3Iu<j. t. 4376 (1848); .//<//. Arg. 

 DC. Proa,-, xv. j't. '2, 1093 ; P</.V tom. cit. 44. 



Naturalized in waste places in the lowlands, cult, in Hope Hardens, 



i-ris ! Fl. Jam. li'.To 1 .). Central America and northern S. Ameriea. 

 also cultivated in many of the West Indian islands. 



Stem, 1-H ft. high, and branches distorted, swollen at their ba 

 .-ucculent, pale greenish-brown; trunk and branches marked with the 

 scars of the fallen leaves. Jj<v/?r.s peltate, 3-G-lobcd, base sometime- 

 somewhat llattened, glabrous; 0-22 cm. in diam., only a few appearing at 

 a time at the apex of the branches; petioles usually as lon^ as the leaf ; 

 stipules with glandular fringe, peivi^ting fur some tune after the fall of 

 the leaf. L'i/ui<'s compact, corymb-like ; peduncle long. / rx orange - 



rlet, rather small, female solitary at the forks, male numerous at the 

 ends of the branches. Mulr flowers: ('<ih/.r _! mm. 1., lobes 



rounded, about '7 mm. 1. J'ftuls oblong-elliptical, apex rounded, 7 mm. 1. 



