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14 FLORA OF .JAMAICA Jatropha 



Disk cup-shaped. Stamens 8-6 ; filaments free to base ; anthers long, 



3 mm. 1. Female jhnrcrs : Calyx and petals like those of male. Ovary 

 glabrous. Styles short with thick 2-lobed stigmas. Capsule about 

 1*5 cm. 1., ellipsoidal. Seeds 12 mm. 1., light-brown.] 



J. panduraefolia Andr. Bot. Rep. iv. t. 267, a native of Cuba, is 

 cultivated in gardens ; it is a shrub about 6 ft. high, with fiddle-shaped 

 leaves, and large, handsome, crimson flowers. 



4. J. divarieata Sw. Prodr. 98 (1788) & Fl. Ind. Occ. 1158; 

 Qriseb. Joe. cit. ; Muell. Arg. torn. tit. 1077 ; Pax torn. cit. 74. 

 Specimens from Swartz in Herb. Mus. Brit, and in Herb. 

 Stockholm. 



Wild Oil Nut. 



Mountains in the west, Swartz \ Macfadyen \ Cuming ; interior, 

 St. Ann, Purdie ! near Troy, 2500 ft. ; Malvern, 2200 ft. ; Peckham, 

 Clarendon, 2000 ft. ; Harris ! Fl. Jam. 8715, 9738, 12,823. 



Shrub or tree, 10-20 ft. high, the whole glabrous. Leaves ovate to 

 elliptical, apex acute or subacurainate, base rounded, not lobed, entire, 

 2 basal nerves ascending not far from the margin, the rest nearly 

 horizontal, papery, 7-14 cm. 1. ; petiole 3-7 5 cm. 1. ; stipules gland -like, 

 deciduous. Bracts ovate, 1 mm. 1. Cymes terminal and axillary, 

 repeatedly two-forked, the branches of each fork equal and widely 

 diverging ; peduncle 3-10 cm. 1. ; flowers on the ultimate branches 

 forming racemes. Male flowers : Calyx 2-5 mm. 1., lobes ovate-rounded, 

 1 mm. 1. Petals elliptical, about twice as long as the calyx. Filaments 

 8-10, united below ; anthers mucronate at apex, 1 mm. 1. Female flowers 

 twice as long as the male, solitary in the fork at the base of the racemes. 

 Petals cohering into a tube beyond the middle. Ovary glabrous. Styles 

 very short ; stigmas thick. Capsule somewhat globular ; cocci 3, or 2, 

 about 2 cm. 1. Seeds 1 or 2 in each coccus, 14 mm. 1., 9 mm. br., oblong- 

 ellipsoidal. 



5. J. hernandisefolia Vent. Jard. Malm. i. 52 (1803); Griseb. 

 loc. cit. ; Muell. Arg. torn. cit. 1077 ; Urb. Symb. Ant. iv. 349 ; 

 Pax I. c. 



Bancroft ! Porto Rico, Hispaniola. 



Shrub 6-12 ft. high. Leaves ovate, peltate, acuminate, base rounded- 

 obtuse or truncate-subcordate or cordate, not lobed or the lower leaves 

 3-lobed, margin entire, wavy or with an occasional tooth, 7-9 cm. 1. ; 

 petiole about as long. Cymes slender, repeatedly two-forked, about as 

 long as the leaves. Bracts triangular, '5 mm. 1. Calyx about 2 mm. 1. ; 

 segments about 1 mm. 1., elliptical, apex rounded. Petals white, about 



4 mm. 1., obovate-oblong, cohering to about the middle. Disk-glands 5, 

 free. Stamens 10, variously united; anthers small, '5 mm. 1., apiculate. 

 Ovary glabrous. Capsule 1*5 cm. 1. 



[ALEURITES Forst. 



Trees mostly with stellate hairs. Leaves alternate, lono-- 

 stalked, large, 5 7-nerved at the base, 3 5-lobed or not lobed, 

 with two glands at the top of the stalk. Flowers monoecious or 

 subdicecious, with petals, in loose cymose panicles, repeatedly 

 forked, at the ends of branches, the female flower solitary in the 

 primary forks. Calyx globose, closed in bud, splitting valvately 



