54 MR. I. H. BURKILL ON 
Croron (§ Evcroton) Microrietium, Burkill; C. Tiglio, Linn., 
prima scrutatione similis, at enim C. Verrauxii, Muell.-Arg., et 
ejus varietati Storckii Muell.-Arg., maxime affine. 
Rami juniores pilis stellatis sparse tecti, dein glabrescentes. 
Folia ovata, basi rotundata biglandulosa, apice breviter acuminata, 
23-4 poll. longa, 13-2 poll. lata, iis C. Ziglit colore et forma et 
magnitudine persimilia, sed venis omnino pennatis dissimilia nec 
basi modo ©. Tiglit conspicue 3-nervia; petioli 3-1 poll. longi. 
Flores masculini in racemos ramos terminantes dispositi; racemi 
13-2 poll. longi, 15-20 flores gerentes ; bractez subulate 3 lin. 
longa, pilis stellatis 1-3 tects; pedicelli 1-2 lin. longi. Calyx 
extus sparse pilosus; lobi ovati ad marginem precipue apicem 
versus dense pilis simplicibus tecti ? lin. longi. Petala obovata, 
extus glabra intus et ad marginem dense pilis simplicibus tecta, 
apice rotundata, sepalis equantia. Staminum 10 filamenta glabra. 
Discus pilosus. Ovariuwm nullum. Flores feminei hinc inde imi 
racemorum pedicello calyceque floribus masculinis similes. 
Ovarium sepalis vix longius dense pilis stellatis tectum ; stig- 
mata basi semel bifurcata, tenuia. Fructus 3 lin. longus. 
Semina castanea albo-variegata, levia. 
Hab. Tonga Islands: Vavau, Crosby, 150. 
Mantnort vutitisstma, Pohl, Pl. Bras. Ic. i. p- 32, t. 24. 
Very widely spread from America by cultivation. 
ACALYPHA BOEHMERIOIDES, Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. p. 459. 
Fiji and Samoa; westward in the New Hebrides and New 
Britain ; and to Malaya. 
MacaranGa HAaRVEYANA, Muell.-Arg.; Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. 
Soc., Bot. xxx. (1894) p. 192; Reinecke, in Engl. Jahrb. xxv. 
(1898) p. 646. — 
Nomuka; Fiji; westward in New Caledonia, Solomon Islands, 
and Norfolk Island; and to Tropical Asia. 
*Ricinus communis, Linn.; Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc., Bot. 
XXX, (1894) p- 192. Recorded in Mr. Crosby’s notes. 
Grown in all parts of the tropics. 
Excecarta Agatiocua, Linn.; Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. 
Bot. xxx. (1894) p. 192. 
Nomuka ; Fiji and Samoa; eastward to Tahiti; westward in 
the New Hebrides, New Caledonia, and Solomon Islands. 
