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jointed, usually furnished with a filiform bract; stamens about 15, 

 hairy at the base ; fruit oblong, about the size of a pigeon's egg ; 

 nut very hard ; seed oily ; wood very porous ; used for making 

 imitations of fruit at Gokak. Sparingly found in the northern parts 

 of the Deccan, also in the Southern Maratha Country. 



9. JATROPHA, Kunth. 



1. J Glandulifera, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii, 688. — A short, stout 

 shrub, dichotomously branched above j leaves alternate-petioled, 

 sometimes entire, but generally palmately lobed ; lobes 3 to 5, oblong 

 or lanceolate, acutely serrate, each serrature ending in a capitate 

 bristle ; panicles terminal, short, few-flowered ; bracts bristly ; male 

 flowers small, of a pale, greenish-yellow colour ; capsule 3-lobed, 

 smooth, oblong, size of a small filbert. Employed by the natives 

 in the same manner as the following. At Punderpore, in the 

 Deccan, plentiful. 



2. J Nana, Dalz. — A shrub, 1 to 1^ foot high, all smooth; 

 root woody, as thick as the finger ; stem round, smooth, very little 

 branched ; branches erect ; leaves large for the size of the |)lant, 

 sessile or shortly-petioled, broadly-ovate, entire or trilobate ; lobes 

 obtuse, central much the largest, 4 to 6 inches long and broad, pale 

 beneath, 3-nerved ; flowers panicled, terminal, few, 3 to 5 on each 

 division ; stipules minute ; flowers solitary, pedicelled, subtended 

 by a subulate bract half its length ; calyx leaves six, small, 

 subulate ; fruit obovoid, flattened at the top, slightly six-sulcated, 

 of the same size as the preceding. Rare, in waste, stony places near 

 Poona. Native name "Kirkundee." Employed in Ophthalmia 

 as a counter-irritant- 



10. HEMICYCLIA, Wight & Arnott. 



1. Sepiaeia, W. and A., Edin. New. Phil. Jour, xiv, 297; 

 Wight Ic. t. 1872. — A middle-sized tree; leaves glabrous, oblong 

 or obovate-retuse, slightly toothed or waved on the margin ; flowers 

 numerous, minute, whitish, 2 lines broad ; male flowers with 8 to 

 1 1 stamens surrounding a flat disk, no rudiment of ovary ; female 

 flowers with concave crenated stigma ; drupe nearly round, red. 

 Thwaites in Hook. Jour. Bot. vii, p 271. Wood very hard and 

 close-grained. 



2. H Venusta, Thwaites in Hook. Jour. Bot. vii. — A small- 

 branched tree ; extreme branches slender, gracefully drooping on all 

 sides ; leaves oblong elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, waved on the 

 margin, entire, glabrous ; flowers axillary ; males fascicled, short- 

 pedicelled; male calyx 4-parted, tomentose, concave, 2 exterior 



