400 EUPHORBIACEAE. (Jatropha. 
Stamens numerous on a conical receptacle, without rudiment of oyary, 
the anthers erect, NER: Fem. fl. Ovary wrapt in a villous coat which 
finally breaks at the top, 2—5-celled, with 1 ovule in each cell. Styles 
2—5, deeply bifid acute branches. Fruit fleshy-capsular, 1-seeded and 
indehiscent or splitting at the top into 2—4 cocci. Seeds large subglobose, 
with a bony testa and a copious fatty albumen. Cotyledons broad orbi- 
cular, the radicle very short. — Trees. Leaves alternate on long ieee 
biglandular at the base, entire or lobed, a 5—7-nerved at t 
base, penni-nerved aboy owers in terminal cymose corymbs, pe 
female few on thicker nea. ‘auiincane th lower branches. Down 
A genus of 3 species, natives of Malaysia, Polynesia, the Philipines and Japan. 
1, A. Moluccana, Willd. — DC. Prod. XV, Sect. IT, p. 723. — A tall 
softwooded tree, 40—60 ft. high, with far-spreading branches, which are 
pale-tomentose at their ends. Leaves 6—8’ long, of variable shape, 
ovate or rhombeo-lanceolate, undivided or 3—5—7-lobed’ with triangular 
acuminate lobes, rounded, often cordate at the base, entire-margined or 
repando- aia aohi pale, with the rib and nerves underneath tomentose. 
Corymb 4 ng, with subulate bracts, the pedicels longer than the 
calyx. Male calyx 1/2, ovoid in the bu emale calyx 3”, Petals 
white, er are longer than the calyx, oblanceolate in the male fl. and 
beard e base, linear-oblong in the fem. fl, Stamens about 18, the 
ie hat the anthers erect erage Ovary hairy, 2-celled. Fruit 
fleshy-coriaceous, globose, about n diam., with 4 shallow furrows. 
Seeds 1 or 2, Famine vibes, — Jatropha as haccue L. — A. triloba, Forst. 
Common on a all islands, being ost sie berate tree in 8 woods of the lower 
zone, recognizable from afar by fee rages hue ts foliage. It dely spread over 
tropical Polynesia and a great pig of Malaysia and the Philipine itands, and all branches 
me name, . The nuts, strung together 
sticks, served the natives oo pen to light their houses, Wheekoe the English name 
Candie. nut tree. The «pilali», which it exudes, seems also to have been in use. 
Of the acrid juice contained in the fleshy covering of the f fruit you prepared a black dye 
which likewise served to tattoo their skins. The expressed oil of the nuts, besides being 
useful for burning in lamps, makes a good paint-oil, but is rather slow to dry. 
5. JATROPHA, L. 
: Howera monoecious, in terminal a mose panicles. Calyx 5-cleft, im 
bricate in the bud. Petals 5, free or united, convolute in the bud, or 
none. Disk of 5 free or united siaae Male fl. Stamens 8 or 10, shortly 
united at the base, the 3 or 5 inner ones longest. Fem. fl. Ovary 3- celled, 
with 1 ovule in each cell. Styles 2-lobed. Capsule dividing into 2-valved 
cocci. Seeds carunculate. — Trees, shrubs or herbs, with alternate entire 
or palmately lobed leaves. 
A Lecauatpisames genus of —— erases with a few s 
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