Chrozophora.] CXXXV. EUPHORBIACEE, (J. D. Hooker.) 409 
Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 1140; Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 152; Sibth. Fl. Grac. 
t. 950. 
The PANJAB, Thomson, Edgeworth; Salt Range, Aitchison. SCINDE and the 
Deccan, Stocks.—Distris. Affghanistan and eastward to the Mediterranean 
region. 
Whole plant softly clothed with stellate tomentum. Root stout ; branches 6-10in. 
Leaves thick, softly tomentose on both surfaces; petiole often 3 in. Racemes short, 
lengthening in fruit; male fl. numerous; pedicels of fem. at length decurved and 
sometimes 3 in. long in fruit. Stamens 5-20. Capsules } in. diam.—Boissier refers 
Griffith's Affghan plant to C. verbascifolia, which hardly differs, and is regarded as a 
variety by Mueller; it has thicker tomentum, 
2. C. obliqua, 4. Juss. Tent. Euphorb. 28; shrubby, erect or sub- 
erect, thickly stellate-tomentose, leaves usually about equalling the petioles 
orlonger ovate sinuate-toothed, ovaries and capsules stellately tomentose 
and with silvery scales. C. tinctoria, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 
749; Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 1141. C. oblongifolia, A. Juss. 1. c. Croton 
obliquus, Vahl Symb. i. 78; Geisel. Monogr. Crot. 71. C. oblongifolius, 
Del. Fl. Egypt. 139, t. 51, £. 1. C. argenteus, Forsk. Cat. PI. Egypt. 75. 
C. tinctorium, Wall. Cat. 7716 G. 
Hinpostan, Wallich. KASHMIR, Thomson, &c.; the PANJAB, at Ferozepore, 
Thomson. ScINDE, Stocks.—Dis tris. Arabia, N. Africa. 
A taller more bushy plant than C. tinctoria, described as perennial by Mueller and 
Boissier, but the Panjab specimens are annual, as are others from Egypt, &c. The 
stamens are 5 in the F erozepore plant. In Wallich’s the lower petioles are twice as 
long as the leaf-blade and stamens 3-4. Schweinfurth’s C. obliqua (Plant. Nilot. 10, 
t. 3), quoted under ob liqua by Boissier, is not the true plant, being represented with- 
out stellate scales on the capsule. 
3. €. plicata, A. Juss. Tent. Euphorb. 28; annual, prostrate or 
ascending, leaves 2-5 in. broad subscabridly tomentose above, petiole 
equalling or exceeding the blade, from ovate and sinuate-toothed or entire 
29 broadly rounded and lobed, ovary and capsule densely stellate-tomentose 
without silvery scales. Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 747; Boiss. FI. 
Orient, iv, 1140; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 232. C. Rottleri, A. Juss. l. c.; 
Sp reng. Syst. iii. 850; Thwaites Enum. 443. Croton plicatus, Vahl Symb. 
1.75; Geisel. Crot, Monogr. 70; Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 681. C. Rottleri, Geisel. 
l. c. 54. O. asper, Ken. mss. C. tinctorius, Wall. Cat. 7716, (except G). 
C. moluccanus, Willd. Sp. Pl. iv. 551. C. Burmanni, Spreng. l. c. 851. 
C. tinctorius & C. hastatus, Burm. Fl. Ind. 304 t. 69, f. 1 and 305, t. 63, £. 1. 
* Polycarpus, Hort. Calcutt. 
Throughout INDIA, from the PANJAB to TRAVANCORE, and from BENGAL to 
to Ss. and Burma, CEYLON; near Trincomalee, Genie.— DISTRIB. Westwar 
pain and N. Africa. 
The larger states of this are to be distinguished from C. tinctoria by the rather 
madrid upper surface of the leaves, and especially the absence of fringed scales on 
h ovary and capsule; in other respects it simulates the varieties of that plant. 
E e smallest states again look exceedingly different in habit, size of leaf, colour, an 
maa ìn the shorter fewer-flowered racemes and small capsules. I am quite 
tio e to follow Mueller in respect of his reference of the older tigures an eserip- 
ns to the three varieties he has established. Burmann's, Vahl's and Geisler's 
mis ptions are far too vague, and the figures of the former too inexact for deter- 
pan The following are the three prevalent Indian forms. I have seen no 
Ba panene from the Moluccas or Malay Islands, or from any country S. or . from 
for Maii" Malaccan habitat attributed by Mueller to Klein is probably an error 
