PLATE CCLXVII. 



JATROPHA PANDURiEFOLIA. 



Fiddle-leaved Phyjic-Nut. 



CLASS XXL ORDER VIIL 

 MONOECIA MONADELPIIIJ. Cliives andPointals leparatc. Tlircads united 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Masciil: Jlores. 

 Calyx. Perianthiiim vix manifeflum. 

 Corolla nionopetala infanJibuliforrais; tubus 



brevifllmus; liinbus quincjuepartitus, laci- 



niis fubrotundis, patentibus, couvexis, lub- 



tus concavis. 

 Stamina. Filamenta decern, fubulata, in medio 



approsimata, quimjue alterna breviora, 



ere£la, bafi connexa. Antherae fubrotundse, 



verfatiles, 

 PisTiLLUM. Rudimentura debile in fundo floris 



latet. 

 Feniinei Jlores in eadem urabella cum Maf- 



culis. 

 Calyx nuUus. 



Corolla pentapetala, rofacea. 

 PisTiLLUM. German lubrotundum, trifulcatnm. 



Styli tres, bifidi. Stigmata fimplicia. 

 Pekicarpium. Capfula t'ubrotunda, tiicocca, 



trilocularis; loculis bivalvibus. 

 Semina folitaria, fubrotunda. 



jMale Jlnu'ers. 



Empalement. Cup icarcely perceptible. 



Blossom one petal, f'unnel-tliaped; tube very 

 lliort ; border five-parted; legmen tsroundifli, 

 fpreading, convex, concave bei\eath. 



Chives. Ten threads awl-fliaped, clofe toge- 

 ther in the middle, the five alternate ones 

 fiiorter, upright, connetled at the bafe. 

 Tips roundifli, verfatile. 



PoiNTAL. A weak rudiment lies hid in the 

 bottom of the flower. 

 Fcmah' flowers in the fame umbel with the 

 males. 



Empalement none. 



Blossom five-petalled, rofaceous. 



Poixtal. Seed-bud r-oundilli, three furrowed. 

 Three lliafts, two-cleft. Summits fimple. 



Seed-vessel. Capfule roundifli, three-feeded, 

 three celled; cells with two valves. 



Seeds folitary, roundifli. 



Jatropha calyculata ; foliis pandurKfoi-mibus, 

 apice acutis, bafi iuequaliter acutt-lobatis; 

 floribus atro-coccineis. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTEr.. 



Phyfic-Nut with a flower cup, fiddle-fliaped 

 leaves, fliarp-pointed at the end, and une- 

 qually iliarp-lobed at the bafe; flowers 

 deep crinifon. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. The Cup and Pointal of a female flower. 



2. The Cup and Chives of a male flower. 



3. The Pointal and Seed-bud of a female flower, without the cup. 



This plant, a native of the Ifland of Cuba, was imported from thence, by Mr. J. Frafer, King's 

 Road, Chell'ea, in the year 1601. It is, unqueltionably, as handlome a plant as any at prefent culti- 

 vated in our hot-houfes, and its continuing to produce frefli umbels of flowers, during at lead nine 

 months of the year, renders it, perhaps, the molt defir<ible. It grows to the height of near thi'ee feet, 

 producing but few branches. The leaves are extr-emely iiregular in their form, and, when the plant 

 is in a fickly ftate, the older ones are fubjcct to be flightly blotched, on the under fide. Few tropical 

 plants that thrive witli fo little hc.Tt, or cnrx ; ncverthelefs, we have not any hopes, of its ever becoming 

 a proper fubjeft for the gieen-houfe; but as yet our experience on that point will not permit us to 

 decide upon it. Il fliould be planted in a mixture of leaf mould, rotten duirg, and loam; and may 

 be pi-opagated by cuttings. From a plant at the Hammerfmith nuifery, ripe feeds have been procured 

 this year ; they have the exadl: appear-ance of the feeds of the lelfcr Palma Chrilli, lint rather fmaller 

 in fize and have the fame oily chamber. Indeed, there is fo little diHerence between fome fpecies of the 

 Genus Ricinus, and Jatropha, that botanilis have been puz/Jed where to place them. ()ur drawing 

 was made from a plant in the coliedion of the Right Hon. the Marquis of Blandford, White Knights, 

 Berkfliire. 



