. The natural history of plants. Botany. Fig. 168. Male flower [fj. Fig. 169. Long. sect, of male flower. They are frutescent or, partly herbaceous, with alternate leaves, accompanied by stipules sometimes glandular, petiolate, with limb entire, dentate, or lobed, digitinerved, and sometimes even as in J. Heudelotii, compound of 8-5-folioles. The flowers, rarely dioecious, are arranged in ramified clusters, often corymbiform, and composed of cymes, the female flowers, when they exist, occupying the centre. Most of them are milky plants. Those of the section Cnidoscolus are generally covered wi


. The natural history of plants. Botany. Fig. 168. Male flower [fj. Fig. 169. Long. sect, of male flower. They are frutescent or, partly herbaceous, with alternate leaves, accompanied by stipules sometimes glandular, petiolate, with limb entire, dentate, or lobed, digitinerved, and sometimes even as in J. Heudelotii, compound of 8-5-folioles. The flowers, rarely dioecious, are arranged in ramified clusters, often corymbiform, and composed of cymes, the female flowers, when they exist, occupying the centre. Most of them are milky plants. Those of the section Cnidoscolus are generally covered with glandular hairs with a burning juice. 1 Oarcas Abans. Fam. ii. 356.—Endl. Oen. n. 5806.—H. Bn. Euphorhiae. 313, t. 13, fig. 1-18; t. 19, fig. IQ-ll.—CastigUouia E. et Pay. Fi-odr. Fl. Per. 139, t. Z1 .—Broinfleldia ITeck. Elem. ii. 347.—Loureira Cav. Icon. "v. 17, t. 429, 430.—Mozinna Orteg. Nov. out Mar. PI. i)«(!. viii. 104. t. 13.—Enul. Gen. n. 5814. 2 H. Bn. in Adansonia, i. 64 ; xi. 134.—M. Aug. Prodr. 1083, u. 17. This species has dice— cions flowers. 3 Which occurs, at least during a certain time, in other Jatrophas, such as J. Curcas (fig. 164). The result of the indehisoence of the pericarp is here, as often elsewhere, the slight development of the aril. * I believe it is of the same plant that Mueller has made [Prodr, 1111.) his Rieinodai- droii africaims, whose name, according to us hecomes a section of Jafropha. 5 H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et Spec. ii. 82.—Hook, et Akn. Beech. Voy. Pot. 443 [Cmdoscoltts).—Anhr. Pot. Sipos. iv. t. 167.—Vahl, SymS. i. 79, t. 21. —Vest. PL Malmais, 52, not.—Benth. PL Harticeg. 8; Sulyh. 165.—Koxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 638.—ToKR. in Mex. Sound. Surv. Pot. 198.— HocHST. in Flora (1845), 82.—Dalz. Pomb. FL 229.—Thw. Fnum. PL ZeyL 277.—Griseb. FL Prit. W. Ind. 36.—Hook, in Pot. Mag. t. 4376. —Soke, in LinntBa, xxiii. 117.—M. Arg. in Flora (1864), 485; in Linntea xxxiv. 207 ; in Mem. Sec. Gen


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