. A manual of Indian botany. Botany. 264 CLASSIFICATION sule, dehiscing septicidally into 3 indehiscent cocci; sometimes each of the latter dehisces loculicidally, scattering by the force of dehiscence the seeds to a great distance. Seeds albuminous, with or without aril at the hilum. This is a large family, abounding in tropical coun- tries. Common plantsi bharenda or aranda or Castor- oil Plant {Ricinus communis) (fig. 233), a common erect shrub, sometimes tree-like, with alternate peltate palmately-lobed, simple leaves, and terminal racemose. Stamen Fig. 233.—Castor Oil—Bharenda or rerhi {R
. A manual of Indian botany. Botany. 264 CLASSIFICATION sule, dehiscing septicidally into 3 indehiscent cocci; sometimes each of the latter dehisces loculicidally, scattering by the force of dehiscence the seeds to a great distance. Seeds albuminous, with or without aril at the hilum. This is a large family, abounding in tropical coun- tries. Common plantsi bharenda or aranda or Castor- oil Plant {Ricinus communis) (fig. 233), a common erect shrub, sometimes tree-like, with alternate peltate palmately-lobed, simple leaves, and terminal racemose. Stamen Fig. 233.—Castor Oil—Bharenda or rerhi {Ricinus communis) panicles of androgynous monoecious flowers, stamens polyadelphous or in much-branched clusters, capsules dehiscing with explosion, and the seeds scattered to a great distance by the force of dehiscence; lal-bharenda or sayambara {Jatropha gossypifoHa), bag-bharenda {Jatropha Curcas), both of which are common shrubs on roadsides or hedges, with monoecious flowers in dichotomous cymes, the central flowers being female and the male flowers monadelphous; the Coral Plant {Jatropha multifida), a common garden plant with red flowers in dichotomous cymes and digitately- multifid simple leaves; teshira-monsha {Euphorbia antiquorum), a common hedge plant with a succulent leafless spinous 3-angled irregularly-narrowed stem,. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Bose, G. C. London, Blackie & Son Ltd.
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