686 MONOCCiA MONA DELPHI A. Jutropha. 



dodecandrous; female below, both with five lanceolate, 

 ■woolly petals. 



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 ferrusinous. 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 not 

 having the shining silver-like appearance underneath which 

 is in that species, from four to six inches long, and from one 

 to two and a 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. J^i laments 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. Curcas, 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. 



