78 ICONES PLANTAKLM. 



Plate 1300 



RICINODENDRON AFBICAISTUS, Muell Arg. 



EupnoRBiACE^, Tribe Chotone^. 



R. africanns, Muell. Arg. in DC, Prod,^ xv, ii. 1111, species unica. 

 Jatropha Heudelotii, BailL; MtielL Arg, I.e. 1083. 



,Hab. West Tropical Africa, Bagroo river and Fernando Po, Mann, 

 in Senegambia Heudelof, and in forest districts of Angola, Welwitsch, 



Arbor 30-pedalis, ramis crassinsculis Isevibns ; innovationes folia 

 novella et inflorescent:8e pilis minute stellatis tomentosce v. fere lepi- 

 dot99. Folia alterna, longe petiolata, ampla, digitatim 5-7-foliolata v. 

 minora 3-foliolata; foliola oblongo-obovata, acuminataj margine minute 

 paacidentata, basi longe angustata, majora 6-9-pollicaria, membranacea, 

 pennivenia, inter venas obscure venulosa. Stipnlse magnse, late 

 oyatse orbiculatse v. subpeltatsej grosse dentatse v, lobatse, persistentes. 

 Paniculce mascnlse ad folia summa axillares v, ad apicem ramis plures 

 subfasciculatte, laxe pyramidato-ramosae, l-l^-pedales, Flores mas- 

 culiparvij subglobosi,eymulosi, cyranlis apices versnsramorum paniculae 

 pluribus breviter pedunculatis. Bradece sub pedunculls minutse, sub 

 pedicellis v. floribus obsolete. Calyx late campanulatus, dense tomen- 

 tosus, alte 5-fidas, lobis. latis obtusis imbricatis. Petala in coroUam 

 subglobosam, calyee panllo longiorem, breviter lateque 5-lobum con- 

 nata. Sf annua 10-15, receptaculo crassiusculo villoso glandulis 5 

 eincto inserta, filamentis liberis basi villosis, supeme glabris rectis 

 corollam vix superantibns, snmmo apice brevissime inflexis. Antheree 

 oblongsB, dorsifixas, loculis parallelis contiguis longitudinaliter de- 

 liiscentibus. Ovarii rudimentum nullum. 



Fig. 1. Male flo-wer at the time of opening. 2. The same, the caljx and corolla 

 removed, showing the ghuids, the receptacle, and stamens. 



Our specimens from Mann and from Welwitsch are all males only, as here figured. 

 The female has only been described from Heudelot's specimens, by £aillon, who, nob 

 knowing the males, referred the plant to Jatropha, notwithstanding the wide 

 difference in habit and inflorescence. He has since, however, recognised the identity 

 of his plant with Mueller's Eicinodendron, Mueller describes the petals as cohering 

 onlj, not connate ; but we find them perfectly united and inseparable without tearing, 

 as m Manniophyton, In the'female fiou'er they are said to be free.— G. Bextham, 







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