Croton. | CXXXV. EUPHORBIACER. (J. D. Hooker.) 395 
DOUBTFUL AND IMPERFECTLY KNOWN SPECIES. 
C. CARDIOSPERMUS, Gertn. Fruct. ii. 120, t. 107; Geisel Croton. Monog. 77; 
Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 695.—Ceylon.—Mueller remarks that the absence 
of a caruncle excludes this from Croton. It is impossible to say what it is; possibly 
& Phyllanthus. 
C. RAMIFLORUS, Grah. Cat. Bomb. Pl. 182 ; Muell. Arg. 1. c. 693; “a small 
tree, leaves alternate petioled oblong-ovate subglaucous beneath, flowers small white 
growing on the naked branches, capsules size of a large pea half wid in the scarious 
9-winged calyx, sparsely hairy."— The Concan; near 
Gibson.—I have not recognized this plant. 
C. RurEDEI, Grah. Cat. Bomb. Pl. 182; Muell. Arg. l. c. 693; “an erect 
suffruticose plant 2-3 feet high, flowers in terminal spikes."  Croton Gibsonii, 
Grah.l, c, —Rheede Hort. Mal. x. 83.—It is impossible to say what C. Rheedei is ; 
Mueller unites with it Graham's C. Gibsonii, which Graham says much resembles 
Rheede's t. x. f. 83, and should probably be referred to it. It is also a suffruticose 
species, and has petioled cordate serrate leaves, — C. Rheedei is a. native of Tull Ghat, 
Salsette and Jowaur, C. Gibsonii of the northern peaks of the Deccan, D. Gibson. 
cal botanists must rediscover both. 
C. TABACIFOLIUS, Geisel Croton. Monog. 26; Muell. Arg. l.c. 696, is un- 
determinable by the description. Mueller observes that from its simple hairs it 
cannot bea Croton, and that it may be Claozylon indicus. 
35. GIVOTIA, Griff. 
A small stellately tomentose tree. Leaves alternate, rounded, and cor- 
ate, sinuate-toothed, base 5-9-nerved. Flowers in axillary and subtermi- 
nal racemed or panicled cymes, diwcious. Disk entire or lobed. Mate FL. 
Sepals 5, broad, unequal, imbricate. Petals 5, longer, cohering in a glo- 
bose 5-lobed corolla. Disk of orbicular glands. Stamens 13-25, crowded 
9n à woolly receptacle, filaments connate below, erect; anthers ovate, dorsi- 
fixed, cells parallel. Pistillode 0. Fem. FL. Perianth of the male. Disk 
cupular. Ovary 2-3-celled ; styles short, spreading, 2-fid; ovules 1 in each 
cell. Drupe subglobose; putamen crustaceous, l-celled, l-seeded. Seed 
globose or ellipsoid, testa bony, albumen fleshy ; cotyledons broad, flat. 
G. rottleriformis, Griff. in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. iv. 388; Muell. 
Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii, 11 t4 Baill. Etudes Gen. Euphorb. 389; Wight 
Ie. t. 1889; Brand. For. Fl. 442; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 365; Dalz. 4 
Gibs. Bomb. FI. 228; Beddome Fl. Sylvat. t. 285. Govania nivea, Wall. 
Cat. 7851.— Wall. Cat. 7819 A, C. 
Deccan PENINSULA; common in the central ranges of the Ghats from Dharwar 
and Bellary southwards, Wight, &c. CEYLON; in the drier parts of the island. 
A small tree; branches stout, wood soft. Leaves attaining 10 in. long and broad, 
coriaceous, hoary above, beneath white with dense appressed wool; nerves 5-7, basal, 
with several pairs above them ; petiole stout, 4-6 in., woolly, with sometimes a few 
glands. Panicles 4-8 in. long; cymes dense or lax-fld. ; bracts filiform; pedicels 
jointed. Male fi. è in. diam., fem. 3 in.; sepals stellately tomentose, shorter than or 
equalling the oblong glabrous petals; filaments hairy below. Fem. ft. ; ovary globose, 
stellately hairy. Drupe 3-1 in. diam., hoary. Seed smooth. 
36. TRIGONOSTEMON, Blume. 
Evergreen trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, penninerved. Flowers in 
an ary or terminal spikes racemes or cymes, moncecious. MALE FL. Sepals 
» imbricate. Petals 5. Disk of 5 glands, often united in a lobed cup. 
