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Fave 45.— 
% 19. JATROPHA Linn. 
Petals free ; leaves deeply lobed : 
Fls. yellowish ; petioles glabrous . , . J. GLANDULIFERA. 
Fls. red; ; petioles glandular . : . J. gossypifolia. 
Petals united at base; leaves scarcely lobed ; fis. 
yellowish ‘ 2 : AS OuIcas. 
J. GOSSYPIFOLIA Mark = Pl. p- one (1753); Pax, Euphorbiacez in 
Engl. Pflanzenreich IV, 147, p. 26 (1910). J. gossyptfolia var. 
elegans Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. XV, p. 1087 (1866). Atalai, T. 
(Gamble). 
Semi-shrubby, 3 ft. high; stem glabrous, shining; 1. 3-5 in. 
long, deeply 3-lobed, with a few hairs on the veins, but 
margins glanduliferous; petiole 3 in., bearing groups of 
stalked elands: stip. laciniate, elanduliferous; fl. in pilose, 
bracteate cymes; cal.-segm. pilose, and glandular on the 
margins; per. spathulate; 
Low country, introduced, as at Kantelai. Fl. March—May; red. 
Native of Tropical America. 
1ga. ALEURITES Forst. 
Tree; 1. alt. with glands on the petiole; fl. monoecious or 
subdioecious, in terminal panicles; calyx irregularly 3-5- 
lobed; petals 5; stamens 15-20, in 4 verticils; disk of 5 
elands: ovary 2-5-locular; with one ovule in each loculus; 
fruit a drupe. 
A. mMoLuccaNna Willd. Sp. Pl. IV, p. 590 (1805); Pax, Euphorbiaceze 
in Engl. Pflanzenreich IV, 147, p. 129 (1910). Croton moluccanus 
Eman, Sp. Pl.p. 100s (1753) pp-; Merr. Interp. Rumph. p. 319 (1917). 
Jatropha moluccana Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 1006 (1753). Aleurites triloba 
Forst. Char. Gen. p. 112 t. 56 (1776). Rata-kekuna, Tel- 
kekuna, 5S. 
A tall tree; bark pale greyish; young parts densely covered 
with fugacious, white, stellate hairs; leaves clustered at the 
apices of the branches, glaberescent, ovate or more less 
lobed, 7-9 in. long, 4-9 in. broad; petiole about 4 in. long; 
calyx o-1 in. long in male fl., 0-2 in. female fls.; ovary 
densely hispid; fruit fleshy, about 2 in. diam., glabrous, 
I—2 seeded. 
Cultivated and run wild in low country up to 2000 ft. FI. May; 
white. 
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20. CROTON Linn. 
Add to key: 
Leaves nearly cre aihae ; 3-5 nerved at base: 
L. thick . ; ‘ 3 . 7 C. NIGRO-VIRIDIS. 
L. membranaceous- , ; : f C. Tiglium. 
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