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Jatropha.) HUPHORBIACEA. 941 
829. Jatropha Linn. 
Herbs, shrubs, or trees, often glandular or prickly ; leaves ro 
nate, entire or digitately lobed or pinnate; stipules often cilia 
Flowers moneecious, in terminal cymes, the central flowers in ane 
cyme or in its forks usually f nme ; perianth seas double. ¢ 
Sepals 5, often coloured, imbrica Petals ontorted, free or 
connate. Disk entire or of 5 we nak Salil numerous ; fila- 
ments all connate, or those of the outer series free ; anthers erect, 
ovate or oblong; cells parallel, contiguous. Pistillode 0. ¢ 
Calyx asin the male. Petals often absent. Carpels connate in a 
2-4-celled ovary; ovules solitary in each cell; styles connate 
below, 2-fid above ; lobes entire or again 2-lobed. Fruit a capsule 
of 2-4 2-valved cocci; endocarp crustaceous or hard. Seeds 
ovoid or oblong; testa crustaceous; albumen fleshy; cotyledons 
broad, flat. 
Flowers scarlet or purple; petals oe at their bases only, glabrous ; 
margins of stipules capillary-multifi 
Leaves palmately multifid; lobes narrow, usually lobulate, sometimes 
entire, glabrous, eglandular as are the bracts, sepals, and — 
petiole smooth ifida 
Leaves palmately 3-5-lobed ; lobes widened in the middle, ne eS 
toothe fi sais sepals, and stipules glandular; petiole glandular- 
muric gossypifolia 
Flowers valk: ; petals united to the middle; tube of male villous 
Within ; a ae entire ; leaves with 5 or 3 palmate angular lobes, or 
occasionally enti Curcas 
1872, JarropHa muLTIFIDA Linn.; F. B. I. v. 383. 
; In gardens and near temples, general. 
A large shrub. Native of S. as 
1873. JATROPHA GOSSYPIFOLIA Linn.; F. B. I. v. 883. J. glan- 
dulifera E. D, J. 52. 
n all the eis in waste place 
A small shrub, a common weed of faite Native of 
Brazil. Beng. Lal. bherenda. 
1874. Jarropua Curcas Linn. ; F. [° iii. 686; F. B. 1. v. 338; 
J. 41, 3 
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In all the provinces, cultivated and in village thickets. 
A mirage _— or small tree. Vernac. Bag-bherenda. 
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