CROTONS OF THE UNITED STATES. 63 
1841; Schott, 1851, no. 309 in 1865; no. 6 in 1867 and in Yucatan; 
Hitchcock, in Jamaica, 1890. 
C. Cauirornicus Muell. Arg. in DC. Prod. 15?:691. 
1866; Watson, Proc. Am. Acad. Arts and Sci. 
24:297. 1879; Bot. Cal. 2:69. incl. var. major. 
1880; Greene, Flor. Francis. 89. 1891; Bot. Reg. San 
Francisco Bay 79. 1894; Coulter, Bot. West. Texas 
400. 1894. Hendecandra procumbens Eschsch. [Mem. 
Acad. Petersb. 10:287. 1826], Linnaea, 3:150. 
1828; Klotzsch, in Wiegmann, Archiv fiir Naturge- 
schichte 7: 252. 1841; Baillon, Etude Gen. Euphorb. 
372. 1858; Hook. and Arn. Bot. Beech. Voyage 
389. pl. 91. 1841. Croton procumbens Torrey (in 
part), Bot. Mex. Bound. Surv. 195. 1859, and in 
Phanerog. Pac. N. A. (Wilkes Exped.) 453. 1874. 
Exclusive syn. Kunth; Watson, Bot. Geol. Expl. 
Exped. Fortieth Parall. (King’s Exped.). 320. 1871. 
Oxydectes Californica Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 611.1891. 
Procumbent or ascending, 4 to 12 dm. high, suffruticose 
or fruticose in protected regions, sometimes caespitose, 
dichotomous; branches slender, cinereous throughout with 
a dense appressed sub-scaly scurf; petioles slender, 2 to 
3.5cm. long; stipules obsolete; leaves generally oblong, 2.5 
to 5cm. long, 8 to 18 mm. wide, sometimes elliptical-ovate, 
or obovate, base obtuse or narrowed, entire, 3- to 5-nerved, 
midvein prominent; silvery or green above ; dioecious ; stam- 
inate plants more slender and shorter branched; racemes 
simple, short, 2 to 38cm. long, nude at base; flowers 
about 3 mm. broad, on slender pedicels 4 to 6 mm. long, 
soon deciduous; calyx of 5 ovate sepals; no petals; glands 
5; oblong; stamens 12 to 15, barely exceeding the sepals ; 
filaments ciliate; pistillate raceme 3 cm. long or less, 
mostly 2- to 3-flowered; bracts small; calyx of 5 ovate, 
obtuse sepals, no petals; glandular disc entire; styles 3, 
short, 2 to 2.5 mm. long, flat or terete, palmately 3- to 
5-cleft or twice bicleft or bifid; capsule 3-celled, variable 
