678 MONOECIA MONADELPHIA, Croton. 
Root annual, Stem with many, ascending, round, smooth 
branches, from twelve to eighteen inches high. Leaves 
long-petioled, round-cordate, obtuse-pointed, three-nerved, 
crenate, pretty smooth, from one to two inches long. Jnvo- 
lucres axillary, crowded, sessile, proliferous, from two to 
three-flowered, from three to four-parted, segments narrow, 
entire, sub-ciliate, MALE FLOWERS most minute, purplish, 
collected in a minute head, which springs from the exterior 
involucre only, the whole including its little pedicel, shorter 
than the involucre. FEMALE FLOWERS two or three in suc- 
cession, in each involucre, Calyx none, or too minute to be 
discovered. Corol none. Germ three-lobed, hairy. Styles 
two or three-cleft. Capsules rugose. 
7. A, cylindrica, Roxb. 
Annual, hairy. Leaves long-petioled, sub-ovate, obtuse- 
ly serrate. Spikes axillary, solitary, sessile, lower part cy- 
lindrical with a one-flowered, deeply dentate, ribbed involu- 
cre, minute and male. 
A native of the Mauritius, from thence brought to the Bo- 
tanic garden at Calcutta, where it flowers and ripens its seed 
more or less the whole year, but chiefly during the rainy 
season, 
CROTON. Schreb. gen. N. 1462. 
3 | Male calyx five-leaved, or five-parted. Corol five-petal- 
ed, Stamina various. Female calyx generally as in the 
nae Corol as in the male, or none, Capsule tricoccous. 
cd 
1. C, varkegata: Willd. iv. 531. 
Shrubby, erect, Leaves lanceolate, smooth, entire, gene- 
rally pointed ; male flowers with small, ragged, obversely re- 
niform petals, and twenty or more distinct stamens, Styles 
three, undivided, = 
Tsjera maram. Rheed, Mal, vi, .t, 61. 
