Jatropha Integerrima

A shrub up to 1.5 m. tall.

Male flowers:calyx-lobes triangular, 1 mm. long, 1 mm. wide at the base, subacute or obtuse, entire, glabrous; petals oblanceolate, 1.1–1.3 cm. long, 4–5 mm. wide, rounded at the apex, glabrous, but pubescent within at the base, scarlet or pinkish; disc-glands free, flattened, rounded; stamens 10, the 5 outer with the filaments 2.5 mm. long and united for three-quarters their length, the 5 inner with the filaments 5 mm. long and united for two-thirds their length, anthers linear, 1 mm. long. Female flowers:calyx, corolla and disc as in ♂; ovary ± conical, 2 mm. long, 1.5 mm. diameter at the base, glabrous; styles united at the base, 3 mm. long, stigmas deeply bifid.

Fruit rounded-trigonous, ± 1 cm. long and 1 cm. diameter, smooth, dehiscing both septicidally and loculicidally.