atoll research bulletin no. 392 the flora of - Smithsonian Institution ...

orne in cyathia in sessile, axillary and terminal, clusters (cymes); involucre, with 5
glands (nectaries); fruit, a 3-valved capsule; seeds, smooth, ovoid. Planted ornamental. 5,
6(168).
Jatropha integerrima Jacq. "rose-colored jatropha", "red-flowered jatropha"
syns. J. hastata. Jacq.; J. panduraefolia Andr.
Recent introduction. Cuba. Common. Slender shrub up to 1 to 3 m high, with
little or no watery latex; leaves, 6 to 16 cm long and 4 to 10 cm wide, alternate and
spirally arranged, ovate to fiddle-shaped (panduriform), acuminate, mostly entire with
obscure basal teeth or marginally incised or toothed;; petioles, 3 to 10 cm long; stipules,
minute, subulate-deltoid, entire; flowers, monoecious, 5-petaled, dissected, attractive rich
pink to bright red, petals about 10 to 13 mm long, borne in terminal or axillary umbels
with long, branched stalks, about 6 to 14 cm long; male flowers, distal, usually with a
dissected disc, stamens, 8 to 10, anthers yellow to salmon-orange; female flowers, lower,
with cupular or pulviniform disk, ovary 3-locular; fruit, about 1 cm long, shallowly
lobed, breaking into 3 segments; seeds, ellipsoid, with crustaceous testa. Planted
ornamental. 3(58796), 5, 6(276), 7.
Jatropha podagrica Hook. "gout stalk", "coral plant"
Recent introduction. Central America. Rare. Succulent, un- or little-branched
perennial shrub, up to 1 m or higher, with a swollen stem, much swollen at the base, and
white latex; leaves, 10 to 30 cm in diameter, peltate to broadly ovate, entire to palmately
3- or 5- angled or -lobed, whitish beneath, sinuses rounded, lobes broad and acute,
attached within the margin by long petioles; petioles, 5 to 12 cm long; stipules, divided
into small rigid segments; flowers, about 12 mm across, orange-red to vermilion, borne
in dense umbels on long peduncles; calyx, eglandular, orange-red, 5-petaled, petals 5 to
8 mm long, red to vermilion; pistil, prominent, about 4 mm long, light orange-yellow
(ovary) to yellowish-green (stigma and style); fruits, about 1.5 cm long, capsular, broad-
ellipsoid, breakmg into 3 segments; seeds, ellipsoid, with crustaceous testa, poisonous.
Ornamental pot plant. 6.
Manihot esculenta Crantz "cassava", "manioc", "tapioca"
te tabioka (K); tapioka, kasava (T)
syns. M. u.tilissima Pohl; M. manihot (L.) Karst.; Jatropha manihot L.
Pre-World War I1 introduction. Brazil or Trop. S. America. Common. An erect,
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slightly glaucous, half-woody, branched or unbranched shrub, up to 3 m or
higher, with milky latex, stems bearing prominent nubby leaf scars, and large edible
tuberous roots; l&ves, 10 to 30 cin -across, alternate, spirally arranged, somewhat
pendulous, palmately 3- to 9-lobed (usually 5- to 7-lobed), the lobes, 4 to 22 cm long and