390 CXXXV. EUPHORBIACEX. (J. D. Hooker.) (Croton. 
about 15 glabrous, ovary densely stellate-tomentose, styles 2-partite slender. 
C. drupaceus ?, Wall. Cat. 7744, and C. aromaticus, 7773 A. 
BurMA; on the Irawaddy at Taong-dong, Wallich. Peev, M‘Clelland. 
Branches woody, bark pale. Leaves 3-5 in., yellow-brown when dry, base very 
broadly cordate; nerves 5-6 pair above the basal, strong beneath ; glands cup- 
shaped, sessile; petiole 1-1} in., stout. Capsules “large, depressed-globose, inflated, 
rigidly chartaceous. Seeds smooth," Mueller.—There are no capsules in Wallich's 
Herbarium; and I have seen none. 
tt Leaves penninerved, not or obscurely 3-nerved at the base; mature 
usually quite glabrous above (or scaberulous in C. Moonii). 
§ Inflorescence tomentose or stellately pubescent. 
13. C. Wallichii, Muell. Arg. in Linnea xxxiv. 118, and in DC. 
Prodr. xv. ii. 623; shoots and young leaves softly stellate-pubescent, leaves 
obovate oblanceolate or elliptic acuminate subserrate glabrous or softly 
puberulous beneath base narrowed acute or narrowly cordate nerves 6-12 
pair, racemes fascicled finely tomentose, stamens 10-12 hairy below, ovary 
stellately pubescent, styles slender 2-partite, capsule small 3-lobed puberu- 
lous. Kurz For, Fl. ii. 373.—Croton sp., Wall. Cat. 7729, 7730, 7738, 
7739 (in part). 
Burma, Wallich. Prov, to TENASSERIM, Griffith, Kurz. 
A small deciduous tree. Leaves 3-10 by 13-3 in., yellow when dry, quite glabrous 
above, base often produced, glands depressed ; petiole 1-1} in., scaberulous. Ra- 
cemes 4-8 in., slender. Sepals tomentose. Disk of fem. fl. obscure. Styles shorter 
than in many species. Capsule the size of a pea. Seeds 4. in. long.—I have seen 
no fruit, and described it from Kurz and Mueller. The latter describes the habit 
and inflorescence as of C. caudatus, but this must be a lapsus, possibly for oblongi- 
folius. The fem. fl. have petals which it greatly resembles, but differs in the inflo- 
rescence not being lepidote. 
14. C. sublyratus, Kurz For. Fl. i. 374; shoots rusty-scurfy, 
leaves very shortly petioled obovate to almost lyrate oblong obtuse or 
acuminate repand-serrulate beneath glabrous or with scabrous nerves, 
racemes stellate-tomentose, stamens 15-20 glabrous, ovary densely stellate- 
tomentose, styles short 2-partite, capsules small 3-lobed . crustaceous 
sparsely pubescent. 
Maritime forests of the ANDAMAN ISLANDS, Kurz. ? MOULMEIN, Falconer. | 
_ , A deciduous shrub.—The only authentically named specimen I have seen of this 
1s in a very young state; the branches are stout; the leaves 6-8 in. long, dark brown, 
acuminate, subentire, glabrous on both surfaces, cordate at the narrowed base; the 
petiole stout, 1—1 in. long, and the inflorescence too young for examination. Others 
also collected by Kurz in the Andamans, but unnamed, have membranous serrulate 
pale-brown leaves, and scaberulous old fruiting racemes; the foliar glands are either 
sessile or shortly stipitate, capsules 4 in. diam., and seeds subglobose smooth and 
mottled. A very similar plant from Moulmein in bad state, collected by Falconer, 
has decandrous male flowers with filaments villous below, and a shortly villous recep- 
tacle. The narrowing of the leaves above the base is characteristic of this species. 
. l5. C. Moonii, Thwaites Enum. 276; branches and leaves beneath 
stellately scabrid, leaves oblong or linear-oblong acuminate subserrulate 
smooth or scaberulous above penninerved base rounded or unequally cor- 
date, racemes tomentose, stamens 10-16, ovary stellately hispid, styles 2-5- 
partite, capsule }-; in. diam. depressed.globose scurfy and tubercled. 
Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 590. C. punctatus, Moon Cat. 
