Croton.] CXXXV. EUPHORBIACEX. (J. D. Hooker.) 389 
forms, to which may be added Kurz's genuina, with capsules the size of a bullet or 
larger and glabrous seeds ; and var. minor with capsules the size of a large pea or small 
cherry and unripe seeds sprinkled with stellate hairs, 
Wallich’s No. 7762 from Singapore is referred to C. caudatus by Mueller, but if 
the unattached capsule belongs to it, its thin crustaceous texture is very different, the 
leaves too are much larger and more coriaceous; it is in a very bad state.—Roxburgh 
in describing the fruit alludes to two varieties, of which the larger has 3-nerved 
cotyledons. . 
Var. 1. hispida; leaves large rounded cordate, capsule globose 2 in. diam. stellately 
hispid, seeds lin. 
Var. 2. rwminata ; leaves large rounded cordate, capsule globose or broadly oblong 
3-1 in. long or broad, seeds broadly obiong, finely rusty scaberulous, endocarp woody 
recurved, seeds } in. long longitudinally obscurely furrowed covered with scattered 
stellate hairs.—Sikkim and Khasia Mts. 1: 
1 Var. 3. globosa; leaves as in 2, fruit globose endocarp quite smooth, seeds 1 in. 
ong. . 
Var. 4. tomentosa; leaves ovate softly tomentose beneath acutely toothed with 
often a cup-shaped gland at every tooth on the under surface.—Silhet (Wall. Cat. 
7838), Assam, Griffith. . 
Var. 5. malaccana ; leaves smaller usually ovate-cordate base rounded acuminate 
sharply toothed, capsule 2-1 in. globose or broadly oblong with 6 low ribs finely rusty- 
pubescent, endocarp woody smooth, seeds very broad à in. long, retuse at both ends, 
and with a dorsal shallow furrow.—Mergui and Malacca, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 4775) ; 
Maingay (1376). 
10. C. tomentosus, Muell. Arg. in Linnea xxxiv. 107, and in DC. 
Prodr. xv. ii. 588 ; all parts thickly clothed with stellate tomentum, leaves 
coriaceous ovate or oblong acute entire or denticulate 3-plinerved, racemes 
short few-fld., bracts lon glandular, stamens about 25 glabrous, styles 
2-partite arms slender 2- d, ovary densely stellately hispid. C. chinensis, 
Benth. FI. Hongk. 309. C. chrozophoroides, Kurz mss. C. crassifolius, 
Geisel Croton. Monogr. 19. Tridesmis tomentosa, Lour. Fl. Coch. ii. 707. 
Prau, Kurz.—Disrrrp. South China. k 
_ Stems or branches 6-10 in. high, apparently erect from a prostrate woody rootstock, 
stiff, terete. Leaves few, 2-3 in. rigid; nerves 4-5 pair above the basal, strong 
beneath ; petiole 3-1 in., very stout. Racemes 2-4 in.; glands of bracts long- 
stipitate. Sepals ovate, nearly glabrous within. Petals of male as long, oblong, 
Margins woolly. Young capsule } in., terete ? densely stellately hispid. 
ll. c. ccelococcus, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 377 ; shrubby, all parts scaberu- 
lous with stellate hairs, leaves broadly ovate or elliptic-ovate acute entire 
or denticulate 3-plinerved at the rounded base, racemes slender, hair j 
minute, sepals hispid, ovary stellately hispid, styles 2-partite slender hairy, 
capsule small deeply 3-lobed tuberculate and stellately hispid. 
Prev, M‘Clelland: at Ran oon, Kurz. . 
rigid shrub, branches terete. Leaves 2-3 in., basal nerves extending beyond 
he middle ; glands Stipitate; petiole 1—3 in. Racemes 1-2 in. ; male i bet NA 
Bepals not acerescent. Capsules }—} in. diam., broader than long, 3-lobed a Tib 
and sides, lobes spreading. Seeds broadly ovoid, arillate, smooth, brown.—the 
Specimens are indifferent. 
12. C. birm ll. Arg. in Linnea xxxiv. 112, and in DC. 
Prodr, Xv. ii. BOL, brans Muel a ith stellate hairs, leaves coriaceous 
orbicularly ovate-cordate acuminate finely gland-toothed minutely stellately 
Pubescent on both surfaces strongly 3-5-plinerved at the base, racemes 
solitary stout terminal, fem. sepals ovate-lanceolate acuminate, stamens 
