Croton. | CXXXV. EUPHORBIACEZ. (J. D. Hooker.) 391 
CEYLON ; at Caltura, Moon, Thwaites. 
A small tree; branchlets woody. Leaves 3-6 in., rather coriaceous, very dark 
above when dry, greyish beneath; nerves 7-12 pairs, slender, spreading; glands 
minute; petiole 4—2 in., scabrid. Sepals obtuse, stellate-tomentose. Disk of male 
obscure, of fem. small annular.—The specimens are in a young state, and I have seen 
no fruit. Beddome regards it as a var. of C. aromaticus, from which Thwaites’ spe- 
cimens differ in the longer narrower penninerved leaves. The styles are as in 
aromaticus. 
16. C. erythrostachys, Hook. f; branches young leaves petioles 
and racemes rusty stellately scabrid, leaves ovate oblong or linear-oblong 
acuminate subserrulate penninerved smooth and shining above scabrid 
beneath, racemes short stout, stamens about 12 glabrous, ovary depressed 
stellate hispid, styles very slender 2-partite, capsule 3-1 in. diam. globose 
Scabrid. 
MALACCA, Cuming (No. 2393), Griffith (Kew. Distrib. 4777), Lobb. 
Leaves coriaceous, 3-8 by 1-21 in., base subacute rounded or subcordate ; nerves 
8-12 pair, slender, spreading; glands sessile; petiole 3-14 in., stout, rusty. 
Racemes 1-21 in.; flowers rather large; males tomentose, fem. more hispid ; sepals 
glabrous within. Petals of male oblong, of fem. subulate. Capsule crustaceous. 
17. c. rhodostachyus, Muell. Arg. in Linnea xxxiv. 108, and in 
DC. Prodr. xy. ii, 590; shoots and young leaves beneath stellately puberulous, 
leaves long-petioled elliptic or elliptic-oblong obtuse or subacute crenulate 
penninerved base acute, young racemes fascicled rusty-tomentose, stamens 
10-12. C. denticulatus, Wall. Cat. 7731.— Wall. Cat. 7739 in part. 
Burma ; at Taong-dong and Sejavi, Wallich. . . n width 
Branches woody, stout, bark grey. Leaves coriaceous, 4-7 in., variable in width, 
doll greenish when dry, base contracted and sometimes very narrowly cordate; 
Derves 8-10 pair, very slender; glands minute; petiole 1-2} in., terete, puberulous. 
acemes too young for description.— A very imperfectly known plant. 
§§ Inflorescence glabrous or nearly so. 
18. C. leevifolius, Blume Bijd. 603; glabrous, leaves elliptic or 
elliptic-lanceolate or oblong acuminate subserrate penninerved base usually 
acute, racemes rather short, flowers small males filled with silvery wool, 
stamens about 10, disk of fem. of 5 large glands, ovary globose stellately 
‘spd and, with lepidote scales, styles 2-partite, capsule } in. diam. depresse 
globose smooth and shining. Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. n. 619. C. 
Üadenus, Miguel F7. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 451.— Wall. Cat. 7719. 
Knasra Mrs., alt. 34000 ft., Wallich, &c.—DisTR1B. Mts. of Java, Sumatra. 
A small tree, very young shoots and leaves sparsely stellately lepidote. Leaves 
~4 in,, membranous, green when dry, nerves 8-12 pair; glands small, at length 
Stipitate ; petiole 3-13 in., very slender. Racemes 2-4 in., sometimes with a few 
Scattered stellate scales ; bracta lanceolate; flowers often 2-3 together seated on 
small pulvini of the rachis, males appearing as if stuffed with the stellately woolly 
recurved. receptacle. Sepals of male bearded at the tip; of fem. ovate, acute, 
tarred, quite glabrous. Filaments glabrous. Styles rather short. Capsule crus- 
sew? With no stellate hairs or scales.—I have seen no Javanese or Sumatran 
Pecimens, and take the identifications from Mueller. The similarity of this to C. 
lo zchianus has led to these species being indiscriminately numbered in the distri- 
ution of Wallich’s plants. C. argutus, cited under levifolius by Mueller, is C. 
lotzschianus. The Philippine Island C. leiophyllus, Muell. (Tiglium Cumi ngii, 
otzach), is very near C. /evifolius, but the ovary islepidote and the fruit is wanting. 
