CROTONS OF THE UNITED STATES. AT 
florescence densely stellate and ochroleucous; petioles less 
than 5 mm. long; stipules obsolete; leaves linear, 4 to 7 
em. long, 3 to 5 mm. wide, apex obtuse, slightly narrowed 
toward the biglandular base (glands sessile, often abortive), 
dark green, smooth and channelled above, lateral veins 
absent or very dimly marked, margins entire and plane or 
very slightly inflexed, densely stellate-tomentose and 
argenteous below; dioecious; racemes terminal or pseudo- 
axillary, several- to many-flowered, interrupted; staminate 
raceme 4 to 8 cm. long or longer; flowers about 2mm. 
broad, on pedicels about 1 to 2 mm. long; calyx of 5 to 6 
subequal, deltoid sepals; petals spatulate, obtuse, ciliate, 
longer than the calyx; stamens about 15, exserted; recep- 
tacle pilose; pistillate raceme 4 to 5 cm. long, frequently 
exceeded by the leaves, 4- to 7-flowered, pedicels 2 to 3 
mm. long at maturity of fruit; bracts deltoid, the two 
lateral ones small; sepals acuminate, incanous; gland 
annular; petals rudimentary or none; styles 3, short and 
stout, bicleft or exceptionally twice bicleft; capsule sub- 
globose, strongly trigastric, 5 mm. long, depressed at the 
apex, covered with a flocculose orchroleucous pubescence ; 
calyx not accrescent ; seeds oblong, 3 mm. long, angulate- 
convex. — Plate 12. 
Specimens examined from Florida (Blodgett, Pine Key; Garber, no. 
292; Simpson, no. 250, Big Pine Key, no. 186, No Name Key; Pollard, 
et al. Big Pine Key, 1898). 
Form B. Shrub, probably 1m. or so high, much 
branched; stems grayish or whitish, the branchlets, lower 
sides of the leaves and inflorescence, densely stellate and 
yellowish, the upper side of the leaves green, but densely 
covered with very minute, umbonate stellates; margins 
entire, inflexed in dried specimens, elongated oblong, 3 to 
4013) being identical in habit and narrowness of leaf with 186, Simpson. 
It differs from C. linearis, however, in having fewer female flowers in a 
raceme, with longer pedicels, and in the minute tomentum on the upper 
surface of the leaves.”’ [Signed] N. E. Brown. 
