CROTONS OF THE UNITED STATES. . 55 
lately or approximately so above, finely and densely stellate- 
tomentose throughout; lower leaves 1 to 2 dm. long, the 
petioles about as long; upper leaves 4 to 12 cm. long and 
short petioled, lanceolate, acuminate, mucronate, entire or 
unevenly serrulate, base rotund, but generally becoming cor- 
date; stipules setaceous, 4 to 6mm. long, covered with 
stipitate stellates; raceme 5 to 15 cm. long, interrupted, 
oblong or pyramidal, loosely woolly and with a distinct yel- 
lowish tingey the stellates long stipitate; staminate flowers 
on pedicels 5 mm. long; stamens 9 to 12; filaments stel- 
late-ciliate at base; petals oblanceolate, ciliate; sepals ovate, 
acute; pistillate flowers usually 3 on the lower part of the 
raceme, not clustered at its base; pedicels short; bracts 
like the stipules or branched; calyx densely woolly, 7- to 
8-parted, the 3 or 4 outer sepals with very small, acumi- 
nate, scale-like glands at their bases; capsule somewhat 
compressed, 6 to 8 mm. tall, trigastric; styles 3, twice 
bicleft, 6 to 10 mm. long; seeds oval, 4.5 to 5 mm. long. — 
Plate 19. 
Specimens examined from Georgia (Chapman, and McCarthy, no. 27, 
1888, both at Rome); Florida (Curtiss, no. 6498, Pensacola); Alabama 
(J. D. Smith, 1884; McCarthy, Colera, 1888); Arkansas (Harvey, no. 12); 
Mississippi (Skehan, 1895; Pollard, nos. 1081, 1270; Tracy, nos. 4723, 
4727); Louisiana (Hale, Gregg, 1847; Daves, 1889; Leavenworth; Car- 
penter, no. 23; Tracy, no 3461; Langlois, no. xx, 1884); Texas (Drum- 
mond, nos. 224, 258; Lindheimer, nos. 60, 171, 239; Gregg; Wright; 
Hall, no. 372; Parry, no. 8294; Wurzlow, no. 51; Crawford, nos. 11, 14; 
Buckley, 1882; Thurrow, 1890; Palmer, no. 1238; Ness, 1896; Mohr» 
1892; Ferguson, 1895, 1899). Also cultivated in St. Louis from Texas 
plantlets obtained through the kindness of Prof. Ness; cultivated 
specimens of Engelmann and Hall. 
C,. ENGELMANNI ALBINOIDES n. var. 
Similar to the preceding but larger, stouter and more 
branched; lower leaves broadly ovate; upper leaves much 
longer, ovate-lanceolate, and cordate; pubescence white, 
never yellowish or purplish, finer and more appressed than 
in the two preceding forms. — Growing with the species, 
