410 CXXXV. EUPHORBIACEZ. (J. D. Hooker.) [Chrozophora. 
i i ightly 
1. Leaves large 2-4 in., leathery, rounded with a rather truncate base slig 
lobed often rügose or plaited, petiole long, racemes many-fid., fruiting peduncle often 
2-3 in., capsule } in. diam. C. plicata, Dalz., Boissier. Croton plicatus, Roxb. 
Rottleri, Thwaites. . 
2. Leaves less thick and less tomentose ovate entire or repand toothed, petioles 
shorter. 
3. Leaves 3-1 in., rounded deeply bullate together with the branches often densely 
tomentose or woolly sometimes deep green, racemes shorter fewer-fld., capsules sma ^. 
their pedicel never greatly lengthened. C. prostrata, Dalz., in Dalz. & Gibs. Boma 
Fl. 233.—This, which often grows completely appressed to the „ground, 1s regar ter 
by Dalzel as a very distinct species, occurring commonly in dried up wa 
holes. 
45. CLAOXYLON, A. Juss. 
Evergreen trees or shrubs, rarely herbs. Leaves alternate, usually long- 
petioled, and oblong, entire or sinuate-toothed, penninerved (3-plinerved in 
one Indian species). Flowers small or minute, in axillary or lateral sp: ^ 
or racemes, usually dicecious. MALE FL. Calyx subglobose, of 3—4 valvate 
segments. Petals 0. Disk 0. Stamens many, rarely few, inserted on or 
around a central receptacle often intermixed with glands or long linear 
ciliate scales; filaments free; anthers erect; cells distinct, connate, at t 0. 
base only, quite free above and erect, dehiscence extrorse. Pistillode . 
Fem. rr. Ca x ofthe male. Disk 0 or of 3 petal-like hypogynous scales 
alternate with the carpels. Ovary 3-celled; styles short, rarely long, entire, 
spreading, fringed; ovules lin each cell. Capsule of 3 2-valved cocci, OF 
coriaceous and indehiscent. Seeds subglobose, arillate or not, testa crus- 
taceous, albumen fleshy ; cotyledons broad, flat.—Species about 40, native 
of the tropics of the Old World. 
The discovery of frutescent species of Claoxylon with the hypogynous male scales 
(petals ?) of Mierococca requires the suppression of the latter genus, the only other 
character for which is its being an annual. Mueller describes the seeds of Claoxylon 
as enclosed in an often coloured lax epidermis, Kurz as having a pure white or 
scarlet axil. The genus will require revision when fuller and better materials than 
those here described from are forthcoming. 
Sect. I. Fem. fl. without hypogynous scales. Stamens central in the 
male fl. (See C. hirsutum in Sect. IIT.) ' 
* Filaments intermized with ciliate filiform scales. 
1. C. indicum, Hassk. Hort. Bogor. 235; robust, leaves long-petioled 
from elliptic to broadly orbicular-ovate sinuate-toothed tomentose pubescen 
hoary or subglabrous, racemes 4-6 in., flowers shortly pedicelled, stamens 
20-30, mixed with copious filiform villous scales, capsules small 3 in, diam. 
trigonously 3-lobed, seeds 3 in. diam. Muell. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 782; 
Miquel Fi. Ind. Bat. i. ii. 386. C. macrophyllum, Hassk. Pl. Jav. Rar. 
249. C. spiciflorum, Baill. Rec. Obs. Bot. i. 985 (excl. syn.). ©. parvi 
florum, Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beech. Voy. 212 (excl. syn.); Benth. Fl. Hongi 
305 (not of Juss.). Erythrochilus indicus, Reinwdt. in Blume Bijd. 615». 
E. mollis, Blume l. c — Wall. Cat. 7842. 
MADRAS PENINSULA, Wight in Herb. Wall. TENASSERIM ; at Mergui, Grif 
ray and PENANG, Wallich. SINGAPORE, Schomburgk.—D1sTR1B. Malay Islands, 
ina. 
A large shrub or small tree ; branches stout, soft, pubescent or softly tomentose. 
Leaves in the broad form 6-10 by 4-6 in., in the narrower 6-8 by 3-410» 
