386 CXXXV. EUPHORBIACEE. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Croton. 
broadly obtusely 3-gonous, with a broad convex nearly smooth polished back.—I have 
seen no Tenasserim specimens, 
2. C. reticulatus, Heyne in Wall. Cat. 7724 B in part; branchlets 
leaves beneath and inflorescence silvery lepidote, leaves ovate or elliptic- 
lanceolate acuminate quite entire shortly 3-nerved at the base, racemes few- 
fld., sepals of fem. linear-oblong accrescent, stamens 15-18, ovary stell ately 
lepidote, style-arms divided, capsule 4 in. long broadly oblong. Muell. Arg. 
in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 580. C. hypoleucus, Dalz. in Hook, Kew Journ. iil. 
(1851) 123; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 231; Thwaites Enum. 276. C. zey- 
lanicus, Muell. Arg. in Linnea xxxiv. 107, and in DO. /. c. 581. 
Deccan PENINSULA, from the Concan southwards, Heyne, &c. CEYLON; 
Central Province, Thwaites. . 
A shrub; branches slender, terete. Leaves opposite and alternate, 4-10 in., 
smooth and glabrous above, base acute or rounded ; petiole }-1} in., rusty lepidote. 
Racemes shorter than the leaves. Sepals of male oblong, margins woolly, twice as 
large as the woolly oblong petals. Stamens glabrous except at the villous base. 
Sepals of fem. sometimes } in. long in fruit. Ovary globose; scales stellate, red- 
brown ; styles very variable, usually 2-partite with long slender unequally 2-fid arms, 
in Wallich’s specimen very large and flabellately multipartite from a cuneate base. 
Capsule stellately lepidote.—l find no character whereby to separate Mueller’s 
C. zeylanicus; the fem. sepals enlarge in all the forms, and though largest in the 
Ceylon specimen are not otherwise different; the styles are too variable to found a 
character upon, and I find no difference in the capsule. 
3. C. malabaricus, Beddome Icones, t. 171, and Forester’s Man. 
204; branchlets leaves beneath and inflorescence silvery lepidote, leaves 
ovate or rhombic-ovate acuminate quite entire sub-3-plinerved sparsel 
stellately lepidote above, racemes few-fld., sepals of fem. ovate-oblong Vil- 
lous at the base within, stamens 10-12 villous below with long silky hairs, 
ovary stellately lepidote, style-arms long slender, tips 2-lobed, capsule 
obovoid lepidote. 
MALABAR; common in western forests, ascending to 4000 ft., Beddome. 
A tree, 20-30 ft. Leaves 2-6 in. long ; petiole 1-2 in. Racemes solitary or clus- 
tered, 1-2 in. Petals of male woolly, much smaller than the sepals; of fem. h 
Capsule about 1 in. long.—Closely allied to C. reticulatus, but the leaves are mu 
broader, female calyx less deeply divided and lobes much shorter; male calyx wit 
long silky hairs at the base, as also have the filaments and petals. 
4. C. scabiosus, Beddome Fl. Sylvat. t. 283; branchlets leaves on 
both surfaces and inflorescence clothed with subsilvery lepidote scales, 
leaves ovate- or orbicular-cordate obtuse or acute crenate-serrate 3-5-ph- 
nerved at the base, raceme short stout, stamens 10-12 quite glabrous, ovary 
densely lepidote, styles 2-partite arms very long and slender, capsule sub- 
globose 3-lobed. 
TRAVANCORE; on the Nullay Mallay Hills, Kurnoul, alt. 2-3000 ft., Beddome 
A small tree; branches brown when dry; branchlets stout, much shrunk when 
dry, greenish or silvery lepidote as are the leaves. Leaves 2-44 by 14-3 her 
coriaceous, alike on both surfaces, nerves 1 or 2 pair above the basal ; petiole rat t 
shorter than the blade, stout. Racemes 1-4 in.; rachis and pedicels very stov 
Sepals of male short; petals narrowly spathulate, deeply fringed. Ovary globose- 
Capsule } in. lóng, rather longer than broad. 
tt Leaves glabrous when old. 
5. C. oblongifolius, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 685; shoots and youns 
