Encyclopædia Britannica, First Edition/Jatropha

​Jatropha, the cassava plant, in botany, a genus of the moaœcia monadelphia claſs. The male has no calix; the corolla conſiſts of one funnel ſhaped petal; and the ſtamina are ten. The female has no calix; the corolla conſiſts of five petals; the ſtyli are three, and bifid; the capſule has three cells, and contains but one ſeed. There are ſeven ſpecies, none of them natives of Britain.

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