Compilation
Aleurites triloba

A large tree; branchlets scurfy stellate-puberulous, at length glabrous. Leaves entire, 3–5-lobed or rarely with a few coarse teeth, ovate or when lobed suborbicular in outline, truncate, rounded or slightly cordate at the base, 2 1/2–9 in. long, 2–5 in. broad, with 2 sessile rounded contiguous glands at the base, but none at the base of each sinus formed by the leaf-lobes, subchartaceous, digitately 3–5-nerved from the base, pubescent with stellate hairs on both surfaces when young, at length becoming glabrous; transverse nerves faint, more or less branched and not parallel; petiole up to 6 in. long, shortly stellate-puberulous; stipules deciduous. Cymes crowded at the apex of each shoot, densely stellate-tomentellous; branches ascending; pedicels 2–3 lin. long; bracts small. Male flowers: buds ovoid, obtuse, about 1 lin. long, tomentellous. Calyx 2-lobed to the base; segments broadly ovate, obtuse, 1 1/4 lin. long, 1 1/2 lin. broad, stellate-puberulous outside. Petals spathulate-oblanceolate, obtuse, 3 lin. long, scarcely 1 lin. broad, glabrous except for a few hairs on the inside at the base. Stamens about 20; outer filaments free, very short, the inner connate towards the base, all (with the receptacle) pubescent; anthers 1/4 lin. long. Female flowers: Calyx and petals as in the male, but larger. Disk small, crenulate. Ovary subglobose, tomentellous; styles very short, erect, glabrous. Fruits (Pax) fleshy, nearly 2 1/2 in. in diam., slightly 4-grooved, glabrous, 1–2-seeded. Seeds acute, wrinkled.