on the Hortus Malabaricus, Part 11. 257 
Gærtner for his Croton Tiglium (De Sem. ii. 119.) continues 
to quote Rheede, Rumphius and the elder Burman. He men- 
tions nothing of the remarkable smallness of the seeds compared 
with the containing-cells noticed by Rumphius; but in the 
figure the seeds seem to fill the cells entirely ; and he describes 
the capsule as quite smooth (glabra) without mentioning its 
shape, which in the figure, however, is much liker the Cade! 
Avanacu than the Granum Moluccum. 
In India I have found two trees certainly distinct, yet both 
agreeing so well with the later accounts of the Croton Tiglium, 
that I am uncertain to which I should refer the name: and I 
have to regret that, not aware of all the difficulties attending the 
subject, I paid less attention in describing one of them than was 
necessary : but I have given specimens of both to the collection 
of the East India Company ; and there is little doubt that the 
one I have most fully described is the Croton Tiglium of Dr. Rox- 
burgh, and therefore of the Hortus Kewensis; but, as it is a 
middle-sized tree, there is some doubt of its being either the 
Cadel Avanacu or the Ricinoides of Burman. Rheede says 
nothing of the flower of his plant, and therefore there is more 
room for admitting the identity of it than of the Ricinoides, the 
numbers in the male flowers of which are quaternary, while in 
my plant they are quinary : but I shall now describe it, and leave 
othersto judge. It must however be premised, that, although the 
seeds of the Cadel Avanacu of Malabar, of the Ricinoides of Cey- 
lon, and of the Grana Tilli of Molucca, have all a drastic purga- 
tive quality, this is no proof their being one species, those of the 
Ricinus communis and Jatropha Curcas having similar powers. 
However much I may be displeased with the genus Croton, | 
know too few of the species to venture on a new arrangement, 
and new names. The specific characters which I give are merely 
intended to distinguish the two plants from each other. 
Croton 
