630 MONOECIA POLYANDRIA. Aleurites, 
Trunk erect. Branches numerous, drooping, spreading 
and ascending. Bark smooth, olive-coloured ; young shoots 
covered with much brownish stellate pubescence. Leaves . 
about the extremities of the branches, approximate, petioled, 
cordate ; margins frequently scollop-toothed, or even three 
or five-lobed ; when young both sides covered with the same 
stellate pubescence that is found in the young shoots, but 
whiter, when full-grown pretty smooth, from four to eight 
inches long, and from three to six broad. Petioles round, as 
Tong as the leaves; two hemispheric glands at the apex as 
in several of the Crotons, Stipules none. Panicles termi- 
nal, erect, oval, clothed, asare all the other young parts with 
harsh, hairy, stellate pubescence; flowers numerous, small, 
white; branches caducous. Mae FLOWERS terminal, small, 
and most numerous. Calyx one-leaved, generally two-cleft ; 
divisions erect, sometimes a little sub-divided, falling. Pe- _ 
tals five, oblong, tapering towards the base.» Nectary, five 
small yellow glands between the insertion of the petals, Fi- 
laments about twenty, inserted into a hemispheric receptacle, 
short, thick, woolly. Anthers, two pits on the inside of the 
apex of each filament. FEMALE FLOWERS sessile, in the di- 
visions of the panicle, Calyx, corol and nectary as in the 
male, Germ superior, single, oval, compressed, covered with 
_ stellate hairs, two-celled, each cell containing a single ovu-— 
lum pendulous from the top of the partition, Styles two, 
each two-cleft to its base. Stigma incurved, acute. Drupe 
two-celled, fleshy, roundish, a little compressed, pretty 
smooth, somewhat pointed, slightly marked on the sides with - 
four sutures, when ripe olive-coloured ; the greatest diameter 
about two inches and half; cells bined with a firm, smooth, 
brown integument ; it fredticady happens that there is only 
one nut in the drupe, the form and size is then different. 
Nuts two, one in each cell, thick, and very hard, dark co- 
loured, irregularly furrowed, particularly on the exterior 
side covered with a firm, fleshy substance; which is white on 
the outside and marked with green veins within, next to the 
