388 OXXXY. EUPHORDIACEA. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Croton. 
+ Leaves 3-5-plinerved at the base, more or less stellately pubescent or 
tomentose on both surfaces. 
8. C. aromaticus, Linn. Sp. Pl. 1005; branches and leaves scaberu- 
lous or tomentose with stellate hairs, leaves long-petioled ovate- or orbicular- 
cordate acute or acuminate denticulate 3-plinerved, racemes elongate softly 
tomentose, stamens about 20, ovary stellately hispid, styles short 2—5-par- 
tite, capsule 4 in. subglobose stellately scabrid. Vahl Symb. ii. 98; Geisel 
Monogr. Croton. 91; Wall. Cat. 7773 B, C; Beddome Forester's Man. 204. 
C. aromaticus & lacciferus, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1, 588. C. 
lacciferus, Linn. l. c.; Wight Ic. t. 1915; Gaertn. Fruct. ii. t. 107. C. 
tilissfolius, B. aromatica, Lamk. Encycl. ii. 206. Aleurites laccifera, Willd. 
Sp. Pl. iv. 590.— Burm. Thes. Zeyl. 201, t. 91. 
The Deccan PENINSULA; from the Concan southwards, CEYLON, common. . 
An aromatic shrub or small tree, usually grey when dry. Leaves 2-4 by 1-3 in., 
usually scabrid above and softer pubescent beneath ; nerves 2-6 pair above the basal ; 
glands subsessile; petiole 4—1 in., stout, pubescent. Racemes 4-6 in. Male fl. with 
woolly petals as long as the sepals; stamens short; receptacle densely villous ; disk- 
glands small. Fem. fl. remote, stoutly pedicelled, thickly tomentose ; sepals short, 
broad ; disk hairy; petals minute, filiform, ciliate. Capsule obscurely lobed. Seeds 
broadly oblong, dorsally rugose, opaque.—Near C. caudatus, but the leaves are less 
toothed, the racemes more woolly, the styles much shorter, usually many-lobed and 
hardly exsetted, and the capsule much smaller, I find no difference between C. lacet- 
ferus and aromaticus, nor does Beddome, who would include under this C. caudatus, 
Moonii and nigro-viridis. Thwaites distinguishes aromaticus from laceciferus by 
the longer weaker branches, less hairy leaves often more openly cordate, and the 
larger longer capsules with scattered stellate hairs.—C. Moonii appears to differ in 
the penninerved leaves. 
9. C. caudatus, Geisel Croton. Monogr. 73; branches and racemes 
scurfily stellately hairy, leaves from ovate- to orbicular-cordate acute oF 
acuminate irregularly toothed scaberulous above scabrid or softly pubescent 
with stellate hairs beneath 3-5-plinerved, racemes very long slender, 
stamens 18-30 filaments silkily hairy below, ovary stellately woolly, styles 
2-partite arms very long slender hairy below, capsule large globose or 
broadly oblong terete woody. Muell. Arg. in DO. Prodr. xv. M. 599; 
(exel. y.) ; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 375; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 359. C. denticu- 
latus, Blume Bijd. i. 603. O. drupaceus, Roxb. FL Ind. iii. 683; Wall. 
Cat. 7720 A, C, 7721. Tiglium hispidum, .KZotzsch.— Wall. Cat. 7126, 
P 7769, 7826 E. 
EasrERN HIMALAYA; Sikkim, J. D. H., and Bhotan, Griffith. ASSAM, 
BENGAL and Sinner to the Deccan and Maracca. CEYLON; north part of the 
island.— DisTRIB. Java, Philippines. id 
A more or less scandent shrub, branches stout or slender, scurfily scabrid. 
Leaves very variable, smaller 1-3 in. ovate-cordate, larger 4-7 in. orbieular-cordate ; 
margin denticulate or rather coarsely toothed, often with a gland at the sinus, OF the 
teeth glandular, upper surface smooth or scaberulous, lower scabrid or tomen 
nerves 2-3 pair above the basal, pubescent above; glands minute (long-pedice i 
in some Ceylon specimens); petiole 1-2 in., scabrid, Racemes solitary, terminà, 
4-10 in.; bracts subulate or 0; pedicels long or short. Male fi. tomentos. ý 
petals as long as the sepals, woolly; disk-glands minute; receptacle villous v. . 
white hairs; stamens often far exserted. Fem. fl. ; sepals ovate, subacute, 803 long 
petals very minute, subulate, long-ciliate; disk low, hirsute. Capsules 3-1 m. lved 
or broad, terete or with 6 slender ridges, densely rusty scabridly pubescent, ev L 
from the top downwards. Seed very variable, dorsally compressed, slightly gc ing 
The variable fruit is a remarkable character of this plant. I recognize the follow 
