Jatropha. | EUPHORBIACER, 403 
angular, 5- or rarely 3-lobed, sometimes entire, up to 6 in. across 
each way, membranous, glabrous, the lobes entire, the lateral ones 
acute or blunt, the terminal one usually shortly acuminate ; flowers 
yellowish, on rather short pedicels, forming fugaceously floecose 
- rather small corymb-like panicles on 1-2 in. long peduncles arising 
from the axils of the leaves or spuriously terminal ; calyx glabrous 
or slightly puberulous ; petals about 2 lin. long, yellowish; stamens 
10, in 2 series, the filaments of the outer ones far down free 3 ovary 
smooth ; styles 3, shortly 2-cleft ; capsules 3-coccous, the size of a 
large cherry, fibrous-woody, smooth; seeds large, somewhat com- 
pressed-ellipsoid. 
Has.—Generally cultivated with the Burmans, especially as a hedge tree 
round gardens and villages, sometimes found as an escape in rubbishy places.— 
Fi. Fr.o.—s.—SS.=0. All, 
Remarxs.— Wood soft, spongy, white, yields a resin. 
2. J. glandulifera, Roxb.—An evergreen treelet (4—8 + 1—2 
+4—1), with a thick unequal trunk, all parts glabrous; stipules 
many-cleft, long-glandular-bristly ; leaves not peltate, palmately 
3-5-lobed, on a sparingly but strongly glandular-muricate petiole 
2-3 in. long, membranous, glabrous, about 3-5 in. ong and broad, 
the lobes acute or shortly acuminate, minutely and densely glandu- 
lar-toothed ; flowers greenish yellow, on very short pedicels, forming 
axillary or terminal, more or less glandular-pubescent, peduncled, 
corymb-like panicles bearing the females in the forks; bracts 
glandular-bristly ; calyx sometimes glandular-ciliate ; petals united 
at their base, about 2 lin. long; capsules ovoid-oblong, the size 
of a aeeny “stone, 3-coccous and slightly 6-lobed, glabrous, minutely 
gtanular, 
Han.—Not unfrequent in rubbishy places round villages and along river 
trom Chittagong and Ava down to Arracan and Pegu, more frequent in 
_ the drier parts of Ava.—FI. Fr. o,.—l.—SS.=— 0. All. Ca¥. 
_ Bemarxs,—Yields a resin. 
N.B.—J. muitifida, 1., with many-cleft leaves and crimson in- 
florescence, is very generally cultivated round monasteries and in 
Burmese gardens. 
OSTODES, Bl. : 
_ Flowers dioecious. Calyx 5-parted, in both sexes imbricate in 
bud, Petals of both sexes developed and imbricate. Hypogynous 
