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10. JATROPHA. Physic Nut. 



* /. glandulifera. A stout shrub or small tree, leaves 

 simple ovate, or palmate, with 3 to 5 lanceolate lobes, the 

 serratures bristle-tipped ; flowers greenish yellow in glandu- 

 lar cymes, bracts bristly, stamens 8, capsule size of a cherry, 

 slightly 6-lobed. Tarkiyerand, andarUU. 



Pun dher pore, plentiful (D.). Deccan peninsula (H.). D. calls the 

 capsule 3-lobed, and G. (if this is his No. 1325) calls it a strange- 

 looking plant. " The flowers are not pale greenish yellow, as D. 

 has it, but dull red, and the plant now grows everywhere on waste 

 ground in Bombay island." Dr. Dymock. 



* J. nana. A small smooth shrub, leaves broad ovate, entire or 

 3-lobed, flowers with a subulate bract half-way up the pedicel, fruit 

 obovate, slightly 6-furrowed. Karkandi. Stony places near Poona. 

 Woodrow. J. Curcas, yerand, jepdl, is a large unbeautiful shrub, 

 much used for hedges (but it makes very bad ones), in the Konkan. 

 Throughout India and Ceylon, cultivated and naturalized, and 

 throughout the tropics (#.) "The seeds taken inwardly act with 

 great violence both upwards and downwards " (-R.). 



J. multifida is the coral plant of gardens, with much- divided leaves 

 and red and yellow flowers, cultivated and naturalized in various 

 parts of India. Chini yerand. 



11. CROTON. 



* 1. C. Gibsonianus. A tree with smooth whitish bark, 

 leaves oval pointed, often yellowish or reddish ; flowers in 

 long and slender racemes, distant, disk glands large, stamens 

 10, capsule greenish yellow, size of a cherry. 



Canara and the Ghauts ; common in moist forests of the S. 

 Ghauts 



* 2. C. reticulatus (C. hypoleucos, D.). A small tree, with 

 much reddish down, leaves sometimes opposite, elliptic long- 

 stalked, much covered with silvery scales, and with 2 or 3 

 stalked glands at the base ; flowers . in racemes, males above, 

 females few below, stamens 15 to 18. Pdndhare. 



Shady jungles on the Konkan hills (D.). Matheran (Birdwood), 

 Deccan peninsula (//.). 



* C. ollongifolius, young parts scaly, leaves large oblong, serrate, 

 flowers pale green in erect racemes, petals woolly, stamens 10 or 12, 

 capsule round, fleshy, 6-furrowed. Gansur. * C. Lawianus, leaves 

 oblong lanceolate or broad ovate, racemes short, few flowered, male 

 flowers large, membranous, stamens about 20, capsule 3-lobed, sur- 



