384 cxxxv. EUFHORBIACE2E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Jatropha. 



A large shrub or small evergreen tree. Leaves 4-6 in. cliam. ; lobes obtuse or 

 acute, quite entire ; petiole as long as the blade. Flowers yellow. Capsule 1-1$ in. 

 Poison, physic or purging-uut. 



32. TRXTAXXS, Baill. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, entire or toothed, penninerved. 

 Flowers in terminal dichotomous cymes, monoecious, with the central one 

 of each cyme female subsessile, surrounded by many pedicelled males, or 

 dioecious? MALE FL. Calyx 5-fid. Petals 5, longer than the calyx. Disk 

 of 5 glands. Stamens in 2-3 whorls, the ( inner or all forming a central 

 column ; anthers of the outer whorl erect, of the inner horizontal, cells 

 parallel, slits introrse. Pistillode 0. FEM. PL. Calyx of the male. Ovary 

 3-celled ; styles 2-fid. Capsule of 3 2-valved cocci. Species 3 or 4, Indian 

 and Malayan. 



In Genera Plantarnm, iii. 392, the calyx is, by misprint, described as 3-fid, and for 

 Antitaxis read Anisotaxls. 



T. ? Beddomei, Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. 221 ; quite glabrous, 

 leaves ovate or ovate-oblong entire or subsinuately toothed, cymes 

 peduncled all male, stamens 8, filaments of the 2 or 3 inner combined in a 

 slender column, of the outer free forming a whorl at the base of the 

 column. 



TKAVANCORE ; at the foot of the Tinnevelly Ghats, Beddome. 



Sranchleis slender, terete. Leaves 3-4 in., thinly coriaceous, obtuse orj acute, 

 base rounded, pale beneath ; nerves 10-12 pair, very slender, hardly stronger, beneath 

 than the nervules; petiole in. Cymes terminal, branched, peduncles and pedicels 

 slender. Flowers | in. diam. Calyx obtusely 4- lobed. Petals much longer, oblong. 

 Disk-glands large. Filaments slender; anthers broadly oblong, slits lateral. A very 

 obscure plant, unlike in habit to T. Cuvningii, and with no fern, flowers in the male 

 cymes, hence perhaps not a Tritaxis. The Andaman Island (Port Mouat) plant 

 referred doiibtfully to Tritaxis by Bentham (1. c.) has quite entire leaves with three 

 strong basal nerves, and 5 to 6 pair of pinnate ones, and an exceedingly slender panicle ; 

 it is referred to Trigonostemon by Kurz. 



33. ALEURITES, Forst. 



Trees with simple or stellate pubescence. Leaves alternate, long-petioled, 

 broad, entire or 3-7-Lrbed, 3~7-nerved from the base, petiole 2-glandular at 

 the top. Flowers in lax terminal panicled cymes, mono- dioecious. MALE 

 FL. Calyx subglobose, bursting into 2-3-valvate lobes. Petals 5, longer. 

 Stamens 8-20, on a conical receptacle, 5 outer opposite the petals, alternating 

 with, small glands, filaments free; anthers erect, adnate, cells parallel. 

 '.Pistillode 0. FEM. FL. Perianth of the male. Disk obscure or of glands 

 alternating with the petals. Ovary 2-5-celled ; styles with 2 linear stout 

 arms ; ovules 1 in. each cell. Drupe large ; putamen hard, 1-5-celled. 

 Seeds with a thick woody testa, albumen thick hard; embryo straight, 

 cotyledons broad flat. Species 3, Asiatic and Pacific. 



A. cor data, Muell. (Dryandra oleifera, Wall. Cat. 7958), a native of China and 

 Japan, with broadly ovate-cordate acuminate leaves, and with anthers reflexed after 

 flowering, is cultivated at Singapore, and elsewhere in India, but very rarely. 



A. moluccana, Willd. Sp. PI. iv. 590; shoots and young leaves 

 stellately puberulous or tomentose, leaves long-petioled polymorphous ovate 

 to lanceolate or broadly rhomboid and obtusely or acutely 3-7-lobed 

 base obtuse or truncsvte, calyx velvety, petals obovate-oblong bearded within, 



