Aleurites. | CVIII. EUPHORBIACEJE. 129 
2 branches. Fruit fully 2 inches diameter.—Jatro ka psoe doa , Linn. ; 
Aleurites triloba, Forst., and several other synonyms, as given by Muell. 
rs 
= and. Ro Drs png: Bay, Dallachy. pecie spread over the E 
Arc cem ud the islands of the South Pacific, and sent also from various eed 
regions, where however it is generally plante 
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96. CLAOXYLON, A. Juss. 
opening qos e from the apex d rM. Female fl.: 
less tha bes divided than in Me males a 25 or 4 valvate lobes. Disk 
ran 
SEV RN Albumen copious. Cot lodong broad, with a narrow 
ees or shrubs, glabrous or sparingly pubescent with short 
appressed ia the foliage often taking a reddish tint when dry. Leaves 
V petiolate, usually large, entire or toothed, penniveined, 
Racemes solitary or 2 together, shorter than the leaves. Flowers 
small, the males few together in ' clusters, the female solitary. Bracts 
minute, 
E ^ Th is spread over tropical Asia and Africa. The Australian species are all 
bk endemio, but the characters are difficult to ascertain without good specimens 
Leaves long and — on petioles under ind nig mone- 
pth. on n pelicl s of a p de diri glabro 1... angustifolium. 
- Leaves various, m petioles of $ to 1 Flow: nis ' dicecious or 
nearly so oe A ke "under 2 finés. Totecstashitnal glands 
gla 
Racemes in the axils of l Ovary glabrous. Styles 
pna " t the vei iens eerte is z 7 2. C. tenerifolium. 
emes in th ils of full. le aves. ” Ovary jubescant: i 
Styles es * axils o grown cave ue 3. C. australe. 
E s a large on petioles of 1 to 2i in. Flowers dicecious, on very n 
short pedi cels. Interstaminal gland and ovary pubescent . 4. C. Hillü. 
LE LO. angustifolium, Muell. Arg. in Linnea xxxiv. 165, and in DC. 
Prod. xv. ii. 780. A shrub of 5 or 6 ft., glabrous except a minute 
. pubescence on the inflorescence. Leaves narrow-lanceolate, acuminate, 
. irregularly toothed, tapering at the base, rather firm and smooth, 4 to 
. 8 in. long and rarely above ‘Lin. broad, on a petiole of only 1 to 3 lines, 
_ the basal glands very small, Flowers monaeiche in racemes of about 
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