682 MONOECTA MONA DELPHI A. CrotOJt, 



^ 6. C, polyandrum. R. 



J>U^e/i'^»vK^. Shrubby. Leaves oval, often lobate, scollop-toothed, pro- 

 jecting glands at the base. Male flowers in axillary ra- 

 cemes ; the female ones sub-solitary, no corol, anthers twin. 



Jatropha Montana. Willd. iv. 563. 



Hind. Hakoon. 



Telmy. Konda-amadiim. 



A perennial species, a native of the borders of rills of sweet 

 water, and moist high places amongst the Circar mountains. 

 It flowers during the wet and cold seasons. 



Stems several from the same root, shrubby, straight. 

 Branches few, young shoots a little downy, and round, from 

 three to six feet high. Leaves alternate, petioled, oval, some- 

 times lobate, deeply toothed, or grossly and remotely serrate, 

 a little hairy, three-nerved, with two projecting brown glands 

 at the base, from two to six inches long. Petioles round, 

 about an inch long. Stipules none, but two glands in their 

 place. Male flowers racemed, small, of a dull yellow co- 

 lour. Racemes axillary, erect, intercepted. Calyx five-leav- 

 ed. Corol none. Nectary a membranaceous, yellow ring, 

 surrounding the base of the filaments. Filaments shorter 

 than the calyx, numerous, distinct, compressed, clubbed, 

 with the apices bifid, each bearing two oval anthers. Fe- 

 male FLOWERS peduncled, axillary, one, two, or three, bow- 

 ing. Ca^ya; cylindric, five-toothed. Corol none. JSTectary 

 as in the male. Seeds exactly like those of Ricinus commu^ 

 nis, but much smaller. 



The seeds are esteemed by the natives a good purgative ; 

 they administer one seed bruised up with water for every eva- 

 cuation they wish the patient to have; each seed weighs 

 about a grain and a half. They are said to be the real Jamal- 

 gata of the Hindoo Physicians. While others, and with more 

 reason, think the flowering C. Tiglium to be the real drug. 



- 7. C. Tiglium. Willd. iv. 453. 



Arboreous. Leaves ovate, cordate, serrate, pointed, smooth. 



