Female flowers in the same umbel with the males.
Empalement none.
Blossom five-petalled, rosaceous.
Pointal. Seed-bud roundish, three furrowed. Three shafts, two-cleft. Summits simple.
Seed-vessel. Capsule roundish, three-seeded, three celled; cells with two valves.
Seeds solitary, roundish.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Jatropha calyculata; foliis panduræformibus, apice acutis, basi inequaliter acutè-lobatis; floribus atro-coccineis.
Physic-Nut with a flower cup; fiddle-shaped leaves, sharp-pointed at the end, and unequally sharp-lobed at the base; flowers deep crimson.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.