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late, rounded or deltoid and furnished with a pair of glands at 
the base, scattered over on both sides at first with copious scales, 
which often disappear as the leaves mature ; petiole i- ^ in. long. 
Eacemes dense, 1-1| in. long, with short pedicels. Expanded female 
flowers % in. broad ; sepals deltoid, whitish all over on the outside or at 
the edges only ; petals absent from the female flowers. Stamens about 
15, with glabrous filaments. Capsule glabrescent, \ in. thick ; styles 
thrice forked. Bojer , Sort. Maur. 281 (name only). 
Mauritius, on the dry slopes of the Pouce, etc. Endemic. 
4. C. fothergillaefolius, Baill. ; Mull. Arg. in DC. Prod. xv. 2, 582. 
A shrub, 6-14 feet high, with grooved branchlets, clothed with pale, 
brown lepidote scales. Leaves crowded, short-petioled, obovate, 
obtuse, obscurely crenulate, rounded at the base, membranous, with a 
few scales at first, but quite naked when mature, furnished with 
a pair of stalked glands at the base, 2-3 in. long. Flowers in 
crowded terminal racemes not more than an inch long ; pedicels at most 
as long as the calyx. Expanded female flowers i in. broad ; sepals 
lepidote on the outside. Petals as long as the sepals, absent from the 
female flower. Stamens 12-20, with glabrous filaments. Capsule 
depresso-globose, naked, } in. thick ; styles with 4-6 subulate lobes. 
C.muricatus, Bojer, Sort. Maur. 281, non Fahl. 
Mauritius, in the woods of Grand Bassin. Endemic. 
5. C. tiliaefolius, Lam. , Mull. Arg. in DC. Prod. xv. 2, 587. A 
shrub, with slender branchlets, clothed with soft spreading hairs. 
Leaves membranous, round-cordate, cuspidate or subobtuse, denticu- 
late, subcoriaceous, 2-3 in. long, with a pair of glands at the base, 
obscurely stellato-tomentose above, densely beneath and whitish ; 
petiole in. long, densely pilose. Eacemes dense, an inch long, 
with a very tomentose rachis, deciduous subulate tomentose bracts 
and pedicels not longer than the calyx. Expanded flowers i inch 
broad ; sepals deltoid, tomentose all over the back. Petals tomentose, 
as long as the sepals, absent from the female flowers. Stamens 20-30 ; 
filaments pilose. Capsule oblong, \ in. long ; styles thrice forked. 
C. canescens, Bojer , Sort. Maur. 281. 
Mauritius, on the dry slopes of the Pouce, Piton de la Riviere Noire, etc. Also 
Bourbon, and closely allied to C. lacciferus and aromaticus of Tropical Asia. 
* JATROPHA, Linn. 
Flowers dichlamydeous, polygamo-monoicous. Calyx of both sexes 
with 5 imbricated segments. Petals 5, alternate with the sepals. Disk 
with glands alternate with the petals. Stamens central, 10-30 ; fila- 
ments connate at the base ; anthers 2-celled. Ovary 2-3-celled ; 
ovules solitary in the cells ; style-branches once or twice forked. 
Fruit capsular. Seeds carunculate. — Shrubs or herbs, with petioled 
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