Croton. MONOECIA MONADELPHIA, 679 
_ Codizeum medium chrysosticton, Rumph. Amb. iv. t. 25. 
and 26. f. 2. 
Phyllaurea Codieum. Lour, Cochin Ch. 705. 
This elegant, highly ornamental shrub, so far as I have 
been able to learn, is indigenous only on the Moluccas, and 
from thence was introduced into the Botanic garden together 
_ with the two varieties of the same species, hereafter to be men- 
tioned, where they blossom about the beginning of the rains 
in June. 
Trunk erect and short. Bark ash-coloured. Branches 
sub-erect; general height of the whole. plant from three to 
six or eight feet. Leaves alternate, petioled, lanceolate, en- 
tire, polished on both sides, generally variegated with white 
or yellow; about six inches Jong, by one aol a half broad, 
Petioles round, smooth, about an inch long. Racemes axil- 
lary, about as long as the leaves, and so far as I have yet 
- seen, male on one raceme, and female on another, Mare 
FLOWERS collected in fascicles in pretty long, slender pedi- 
cels, Calyx five-parted ; divisions sub-rotund, Petals five, 
somewhat triangular, variously notched, or ragged, shorter 
by half than the divisions of the calyx. Nectarial glands 
five, round the stamina, and alternate with the petals, Fila- 
ments from twenty to thirty, distinct, clavate. Anthers seven, 
FEMALE FLowERS sub-sessile, solitary. Calyx urceolate, 
five-toothed. Corol none, Nectary a coloured glandular 
ring, round the base of the germ. Germ conical, Styles three, 
undivided, recurved. Besides the plain green-leaved plant, 
viz, Codieum medium chrysosticton, we have also from the 
Moluccas Rumphius’s Codieum crispum, t. 26. f, 2. and his 
fifth variety, Codieum chrysoticton latifolium, sometimes 
the variegation partakes of yellow, but red predominates, In 
this variety the leaves are larger, and tend to be wedge-shap- 
ed. The female flowers are short-peduncled, and have the 
style much shorter than in the first variety, It isa most ele- 
gant plant, and delights in the shades of large trees, where 
_ the colours are more varied, and brighter. All the varieties 
