Aleurites.? OXXXV. EUPHORBIACEX. (J. D. Hooker.) 385 
anthers erect, ovary 2-celled hispid. Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 723; 
Kurz For. Fl. 377; Bedd. Sylv. Madr. t. 276; Benth. Fl. Hongk. vi. 198. 
A. triloba, Forst. Char. Gen. 112, t. 56; Lamk. Iil.t.791; Willd. l. c.; 
Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 629; Grah. Cat. Bomb. Pl. 181; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. 
Fl. Suppl. 76; Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. i. ii. 385; Wall. Cat. 7850. A. 
ambinux, Pers. Syn. 587; A. Juss. Tent. Euphorb. t. 12. A. cordifolia, 
Steud. Nomenc. 49. Camirium cordifolium, Gaertn. Fruct. ii. 195. Jatropha 
moluccana, Linn. Sp. Pl. 1006.—Camirium, Rumph. Amb. ii. 180, t. 58. 
Oceurs in various parts of INDIA, especially the Malayan Peninsula, Griffith 
(Kew Distrib. 4795), Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1884). Wild in the Wynaad, but 
probably escaped from cultivation, Beddome.—DrisTRIB. Native of the Malay ? and 
Pacific Tslands. 
An evergreen tree, 40-60 ft. Zeaves crowded at the ends of the branches, 4- 
in. long; petiole 2-21 in., pubescent. Cymes tomentose ; flowers white, shortly 
Pedicelled. Calyx usually splitting into three lobes or segments, +5 in. long. Petals 
in. Stamens 15-20, on hairy receptacle, filaments hairy, short. Fruit 2-2} in. diam., 
uod lobose, fleshy, smooth, olive-coloured, containing 1 or 2 large, hard seeds with a 
Wed testa. 
34. CROTON, Linn. 
Trees or shrubs, rarely herbs. Leaves alternate, rarely opposite or 
Whorled, 2-glandular at the base. Flowers solitary or clustered on the 
rachis of a terminal raceme with small bracts, mona@cious, rarely dioccious. 
ALE FL. Calyx 5-(4-6-)partite, imbricate or subvalvate. Petals as many 
as and equalling or shorter than the sepals. Disk-glands as many, opposite 
e sepals. Stamens indefinite, inserted on a hairy receptacle, filaments 
ee inflexed in bud then erect; anthers adnate, cells parallel. Pistillode 0. 
EM. FL. Sepals usually more ovate than in male, rarely accrescent in fruit. 
Petals smaller or 0. Disk annular or of glands. Ovary 3-(2-4-)celled ; 
styles usually long and slender, 2-4-cleft; ovules 1 in each cell. Capsule 
subequally 6-valved or of 3 deciduous 2-valved cocci. Seeds smooth, caruncle 
Small, testa crustaceous, albumen copious; cotyledons broad.—Species 
Uncertain (500 described), in all hot countries. 
ha The Indian species are all referable to Mueller’s section Eucroton, described as 
‘ing the sepals equal (though often unequal in both sexes), the receptacle o " 
fen fl. villous, and the petals distinct in the male fi. but minute or wanting in the 
e. 
A. Ovary lepidote or stellately tomentose. 
* Inflorescence lepidote. (See also C. levifolius and Griffith.) 
T Leaves densely lepidote beneath, or on both surfaces. 
l. C. argy ratus, Blume Bijd. 602; leaves elliptic- or ovate-lanceolate 
j minate silvery or rufous-lepidote beneath penninerved, racemes ong 
P ìdote, stamens 10-12, ovary lepidote, styles slender 2-partite, p» 
E» se rusty-pubescent. Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ui. 526; "n 
l. Ind. Bat. i. ii, 380; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 372; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 
4 C. bicolor, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 680. x Collect 
ARTABAN . PERAK, Scortechini, King's Collector. 
Marac Ca, Grifith, Mangan Bee Curtis,— DISTRIB. Sumatra, Java, Borneo. 
mig, Evergreen tree; branchlets lepidote. Leaves 4-7 in., thinly coriaceous, pase 
^ nutel y Cordate; petiole 1-11 in. Racemes 4-6 in.; male fl. shortly pedicelled ; 
uy, "TBer, stouter pedicelled. Sepals of fem. linear-oblong, lepidote, glabrous 
n- Petals and stamens villous. Capsule } in. diam., hardly rene Seed 
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