Baccaitrea.] 



80. EUPnORBlACEA'. 



309 



linear, much larger than in the male. Ovary 2-5-celled, ovoid or glo- 

 bose ; stigmas 2-5, free or connate into a short style, 2-lobed, arms 

 broad or subulate,, rarely united into a peltate, stigma cells 2-ovuled. 

 Fruit tardily loculicidally dehiscent. Seeds with a large white arillus ; 

 albumen fleshy or hard ; cotyledons broad, flat. 



B, courtallensis, Muell. Arg. in DO. Prod. XV. II. 459 ; Fl. Br. I. 5. 

 867. B. sapida, Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 280. A large tree. Travancore and 

 the Anamallays. North Kanara in the moist forests near Sungsal. Fl. 

 C. S. 



17. JATROPHA, Linn. 



Herbs, shrubs or trees, often glandular and prickly. Leaves entire 

 or digitately lobed ; stipules often cihate. Flowers in terminal cymes, 

 monoicous ; female often petaliferous. Male fl. Sepals 6, imbricate, 

 often petaloid. Petals 5, free or connate. Disk entire or of 5 glands. 

 Stamens many, filaments of all or of the inner connate. Pistillode 0. 

 Fem. fl. Perianth of the male. Ovary 2-4-celled ; styles connate 

 below, 2-fid ; ovule 1 in each cell. Fruit a capsule with a bony or 

 crustaceous endocarp. Seeds ovoid or oblong, testa crustaceous j albu- 

 men fleshy ; cotyledons broad^ flat. 



Petals free. 



Leaves 3-5-lobed, cordate, glandular — ^bristly, 



serrate 1. J. glandulifera. 



Leaves entire or 3-lobed, not cordate ... 2. e/. nana. 



Leaves peltate, pinnatifid, segments many. 



Cymes scarlet 3. /. muUifida. 



Petals connate. Leaves entire or lobed 4. J". Curcus, 



1. J. glandulifera, Roxb. Fl. Ind. III. 688 ; Fl. Br. I. 5. 382 ; Dalz. 

 & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 229. Jangli-erandi, undarhibi, M. 



Common near villages in Bengal, Burma and the Northern Circars, 

 rare in Gudh and the Punjab. Western Peninsula at Punderpore in the 

 Deccan, plentiful. Dalz. The seeds yield an oil similar to castor-oil, used 

 in native medicine. 



2. J. nana, Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 229 ; Fl. Br. I. 5. 382. Kir- 

 hiindi, M. The Konkan, stony places near Poona, Bombay, &c. A small 

 shrub, very little branched. 



3. J. muUifida, Linn. Sp. PI. 1006; Fl. Br. I. 5. 383. Ghinuerandi, 

 Vern. Cultivated and naturalized throughout the presidency. 



4. J, Curcas, Linn. Sp. Pi. 1006 ; Fl. Br. I. 5. 383 ; Brandis For. Fl. 

 442 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. Suppl. 77. Irundi, jaiphal^ huruharluf 

 Vern. ; Kadandla (Dharwar). Batanjota^ jamalgota^ Guz. ; Maraharln,^ 

 K. Indigenous in America, cultiyated in most parts of India. Through- 

 out the presidency, common in hedges, culti rated and naturalized. Fl. 

 Apl.-May. Fr. li. S. A large shrub. Bark greenish. Wood white, 



