402 EUPHORBIACER. { Manihot. 
staminodes, 3-celled, with a solitary ovule in each cell; styles 3, 
very short, connate; stigmas broad, 3-lobed, the lobes aber 2- 
lobed. Capsules 3-coceous, the cocci rekitos Seeds with a strong 
spermaphore. Cotyledons broad.—Herbs or shrubs, rarely trees, 
sometimes tuberose, with alternate usually palmati-lobed_ leaves. 
see paired. Flowers rather conspicuous, in corymb-li 
panicles. 
 -. anges Fon. — Pooloo-pinan-myouk.—An e 
simple-stemmed or ringly branched shrub 6-10 ft. hich, with 
a large tuberous oe oe es 3 ft. long, all parts quite glabrous and- 
somewhat glaucous; stipules lanceolate-su ulate, very deciduous ; 
ee deeply 3-7-lobed (occasionally the one or other leaf 7 
e and palmately 3-nerved), on a 2-10 in. long petiole, mem- 
ladda, 3-8 in. across each way, glabrous, more or less lai 
beneath, the lobes oblong-lanceolate to elongate. obovate-oblong, 
entire, acuminate ; flowers greenish white or reddish, on slender 
pedicels, forming terminal, glabrous, pruinous, corymb- like panicles ; 
cic glabrous, in males 1-2, in the females up to 4 lin. long; d 
in males nore capsules globular-ellipsoid, the size of a cherry, 
wrinkled-rough. 
Has 15.—Generaly cultivated with Burmans and Karens, especially in 
toungyas.— Fl. R. 
REMAR sees is the tapioca, maniok or cassava, the roots of which are 
poisonous, pe when cooked furnish wholesome food. 
JATROPHA, L. 
Flowers usually mennationt, Calyx 5-parted, in both sexes 
tmbsioste. in the bud, Petals in both sexes present or not. Glands 
disk opposite the calyx- Pe Stamens 30 to 10, in 6 to 2 
pe central ; filaments connate at the base ; aan 2-rimose, 
the cells free below. Ovary-rudiment none. Ovar 
in each cell ; styles’ as as many as ovary-cells, ‘connate at the base, 
simply or twice 2-cleft. Capsule dry, 2-4-coccous. Seeds with 
Stipules in pairs. Flowers often in terminal, dichotomously branched, 
“oleate panicles bearing the females in the forks of the 
branchings 
Leaves not ee, angular-lobed, the lobes and sti 
pules entire . J. curcas, 
Honres. not it , palmately lobed, the lobes glandular-toothed, 
a stipules long: glandular-brig stly . ae glandulifera. ale 
gee not on sa a intely multifid, the lobes entire or lobed, 
stipules hair. lacerate, without glands oe multifida. 
