486 OX SEEDLINGS 



Leaves cauline, alternate, stipulate, petiolate, simple. 



No. 1. Peltate, entire ; lamina rotundly ovate in outline, obtuse, 

 entire, radiately seven-nerved and reticulate, pale green above, deeply 

 glaucous or whitish beneath, glabrous ; petiole erect, terete, smooth, 

 tapering from 3 mm. at the base to 2 mm. in thickness near the 

 apex, 5 cm. long, pale green suffused with red on the basal half ; 

 stipules multifid, tipped with glands. 



Jatrcpha multifida, L. 



Hypocotyl woody and somewhat fleshy, erect, terete, glabrous, 

 glaucous-green mottled with grey, varying in length from 9'5 cm. 

 to more above the soil, stout, tapering from the base upwards. 



Cotyledons large, fleshy, remaining in the seed till it is exhausted, 

 when the whole becomes dry and drops away ; petiole about 1*3 cm. 

 long ; lamina when removed from the dry seed 1'6 cm. long, 1-15 cm. 

 wide. 



Stem succulent, soon becoming woody, tapering upwards and 

 more slender than the hypocotyl, deep green suffused with a 

 glaucous bloom, and mottled with little white protuberances; 1st 

 internode 1 cm. long ; 2nd 3 mm. ; 3rd 6'5 mm. ; 4th undeveloped, 

 bringing the third and fourth leaf opposite, but this is not a constant 

 characteristic, 



Leaves simple, digitate, cauline, alternate, stipulate, petiolate, 

 intense green above with white or pale midribs to the primary and 

 secondary segments, glaucous beneath with very prominent mid- 

 ribs, glabrous ; petioles terete, glabrous, glaucous, tapering upwards 

 from a stout base ; stipules cut into slender, branching, bristle-like 

 processes, pale green or colourless. 



No. 1. Digitately seven -lobed ; lobes lanceolate in outline, pin- 

 natifid with irregular sized, subulate, acute, aristate segments ; 

 basal pair of lobes small with a large segment on the basal, anterior 

 side ; middle lobe somewhat deformed. 



No. 2. Digitately nine-lobed ; lobes lanceolate in outline, deeply 

 and irregularly pinnatifid ; basal lobes very small ; ultimate seg- 

 ments subulate, attenuate, aristate. 



Nos. 3 and 4. Digitately seven-lobed ; lobes lanceolate in out- 

 line, tapering to both ends or lanceolate -elliptic ; basal lobes with a 

 large posterior and basal segment ; ultimate segments subulate, 

 attenuate or linear, and mostly aristate. 



No. 5. Similar to three and four, but sometimes without large 

 segments at the posterior and basal side of the basal lobes. 



Ultimate leaves varying in size, and seven- to ten- or more 

 lobed, with irregularly pinnatifid or pinnatipartite secondary divi- 



