688 MONOECIA MONADELPHIA. Jatrophtt. 



S. I. fflandulifera. Roxh. 



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, rao- 

 nadelphous, 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; lobes 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 in a 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. CoroZ ample, campanulate. Petals 

 cuneate, conjoined toward the base, and there woolly on the 

 inside.* JSTectary five green glands round the base of the 

 conjoined filaments. Filaments about eight, conjoined, ^ti- 

 thers twin. Pistillum, no rudiment of one, the staminiferous 

 column occupying its place. Female 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 



* Without strict examination^ the corol may be taken for a pe- 

 talled one. 



