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shows them to be connate at the base, as Eoxburgh has described them. 

 ¥1 B. I. V. 5, p. 382 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 229 ; Trim. Fl. CeyL v. 4, p. 45 ; 

 Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 309 ; Woodr. ia Jouru. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 

 (1899) p. 371 ; Watt, Diet. Ecou. Prod. v. 4, p. 548. Jatropha glauca, 

 Vahl, 8ymb. v. 1 (1790) p. 78 ; Grab. Cat. p. 183.— Mowers : Aug.-Nov. 

 Veen. Underhihi ; Jangli-erand. 



Deccan : Paiidai'pur (near Sholapur), abundant, Graham, Bed z ell S; Gibson, Talbot, 

 Woodrowl; Kalaclgi, Law I — Distrib. India (apparently limited to the 2 localities 

 mentioned) ; Oeylou (abundant in some places near the sea-coast), Tropical Africa. 



It is very 'doubtful if this plant is indigenous in the Bombay Presidency. The only 

 places apparently in which it is to be found are Pandarpur and Kaladgi in the Deccan. 

 There is a legend concerning the first springing up of the plant at Pandarpur. Pan- 

 darpur is the scene of an annual fair which is attended by thousands of native 

 devotees, and it is quite intelligible that a few seeds might have been accidentally 

 imported by some of them. Eoxburgh (Fl. Ind. 1. c.) states that he has been unable 

 to find how the jjlant originally reached the Botanic Garden at Calcutta. Trimen 

 (Fl. Ceyl. V. 4, p. 46) is of opinion that the plant is an introduction in Ceylon, where 

 it is abundant in a few places near the coast. 



2, Jatropha nana, Dalz. in Dalz. 4- Gibs. Bo. Fl. (1861) p. 229. 

 A glabrous nndershrub 1-lg ft. high ; root woody, as thick as the fiuger; 

 stem round, smooth, not much branched ; branches erect. Leaves hirge 

 for the size of the plant, 3-5 in. long and about as broad as long, broadly 

 ovate, entire or 3-lobed from above the middle, the lobes with entire 

 naked margins, ovate, obtuse or subacute, the middle lobe the largest, 

 base cuneate, with three strong nerves from the base ; petioles variable 

 in length, i-1 in. long ; stipules not seen. Flowers pedicellate in few- 

 flowered terminal paniculate cymes ; bracts lanceolate, acute, the margins 

 not glandular. Male flowers : Calyx i in. long, glabrous, divided 

 about g way down ; lobes ovate, subobtuse. Stamens 8, all united in 

 the lower half ; disk of minute glands. Corolla | in. long, glabrous 

 outside ; segments almost or wholly free to the base, obovate, cuneate, 

 densely glandular-hairy at the base inside. Female flowers : Calyx 

 1-^ in. long, divided almost to the base, glabrous ; segments lanceolate, 

 subacute. Corolla nearly | in. long; petals free, obovate-oblong, glabrous 

 outside, glandular-hairy at the base inside. Ovary glabrous, obovoid, 

 seated on a somewhat saucer-shaped glandular disk. Style i in. long, 

 divided into 3 branches from about the middle, each of the branches 

 again divided at the apex into 2 somewhat triangular lobes about -L in. 

 long. Capsules § in. long, obovoid-oblong, flattened at the top, slightly 

 6-lobed. Fl. B. I. v. 5, p. 382 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 309 ; 

 Woodr. in Jouru. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 371 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. 

 Prod. V. 4, p. 549. — Flowers : May-July. 



Deccan: hills near Poena, Dalzelll, Coolcc\, Woodrowl; Bowdhan 8 miles west of 

 Poona, Kamtkar\; Chattarsinghi Hill near Poona, Cookcl — Distrib. Apparently 

 endemic in the Deccau. 



Jatropha gossijinfolia, Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) p. 1006. A shrub, a native 

 of Brazil, cultivated in gardens and found as an escape. Leaves pal- 

 mately 3-5-lobed, at first brown, afterwards becoming green ; petioles 

 ong, clothed with numerous fascicled and branched gland-tipped bristles. 

 Corolla red. This is often mistaken for J. glandidifera, w hich it much 

 resembles. Fl. B. I. v. 5, p. 383 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Supp/. p. 78 ; Talb. 



