596 CXV. EUPHORBIACBJE. 



base, bright crimson when ripe, hanging in great profusion from the 

 trunk, which appears as a crimson mass (Bcddome). Seeds enclosed in 

 a succulent edible aril. Fl, B. I. v. 5, p. 367 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, 

 p. 309. Baccaurea sapkla, Bedd. Fl. 8ylvat. t. 28() {not of Mu(>ll. Arg.). 

 Pierardia macrostacluja, AVight, Icon. ti. 1912 & 1913. 



This has bceu included on the authority of Talbot (Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 309), 

 who gives it as occurring at Sungsal (N. Kanara). There is but one very imperfect 

 specimen in Herb. Kew. from the Anamali Hills, tliough Beddome says that it is 

 abundant in moist forests of the Western Gliats from Kanai-a to Travancore. — 

 DiSTRiB. India (W. Peninsula). 



18. JATROPHA, Linn. 



Herbs, shrubs, or trees, often glandular or prickly. Leaves alternate, 

 often digitately lobed ; stipules often ciliate. Flowers monoecious, in 

 terminal cymes, the central flowers in the cyme or its forks usually 

 female. Perianth usually double. Male flowehs : Calyx 5-lobed or 

 -partite, the segments often colored, imbricate. Petals 5, free or con- 

 nate. Disk entire or of 5 glands. Stamens numerous ; filaments of all 

 or of the interior only connate below ; anthers erect, ovate or oblong, 

 the cells parallel, contiguous. Pistillode 0. Female flowers : Calyx 

 as in the male. Petals sometimes absent. Ovary 2-4-celled ; ovules 

 solitary in each cell; styles connate below, 2-fid above, the lobes 

 entire or again 2-lobed. Fruit a capsule of 2-4 cocci ; cocci 2-valved ; 

 endocarp crustaceous or bard. Seeds ovoid or oblong ; testa crustaceous ; 

 albumen fleshy ; cotyledons broad, flat. — Dtstriu. Species about 70, 

 chiefly American. 



A small tree reaching 8 ft. high ; margins of leaves with gland- 

 tipped hairs I . J. (/hind ul if era. 



A shrub 1-1^ ft. high ; margins of leaves without gland-tipped 



hairs 2. J.nana. 



1 . Jatropha glandulifera, Itocch. Fl. Tad. v. 3 (1832) p. 088. A 

 small evergreen tree containing much clear pale-yellow juice ; trunk 

 short, stout, dicliotomously branched. Leaves 2]-5 in. long, and as 

 broad as long, palmately 3-5-lobed below the middle, the posterior 

 lobes the smaller ; lobes obovate or elliptic, shortly and acutely acumi- 

 nate, glabrous, the margins serrate, each serrature ending in a gland- 

 tipped bristle, base cordate with a broad but shallow sinus; main nerves 

 numerous, slender ; petioles 2-5 in. long, without glandular hairs ; 

 stipules very long, divided into many filiform segments, each witli a 

 glandular head. Flowers monoecious, greenish-yellow, in glandidar 

 corymbose cymes; bracts long, lanceolate, acute, with gland-lipped 

 hairs on the margins. Male elowers : Calyx ^ in. long, divided almost 

 to the base; segments ovate, obtuse. Stamens s. all united inlo a 

 column in the lower half, free above. Disk of 5 glands at the base of 

 the staminal-column. Corolla 1 in. long, 5-lobed ; lobes i-J^ in. long, 

 oblong-obovate, rounded, veined. Feaiale flowers: Calyx divided to 

 the base or nearly so ; segments 5, ovate, acufe. Cnpsuh^s reaching .J in. 

 long, ellipsoid-ol)loiig, smooth, ;>-lohed. Seeds ellipsoid-oblong, =| in. 

 long, smooth and shining, black. Koxl»urgh {1. c), in a footnole, cautions 

 botanists against assuming, after a cursory examination, that the jietala 

 of the corolla ai'e free. They separate veryeisily, but close examination 



