680 MONOECIA MONADELPHIA. Croton. 
are readily propagated by laying. In the Botanic garden _ 
they have not yet perfected their seed. 
2. C. bractiferum. R. 
~Shrubby. Leaves linear-oblong, smooth, entire. Racemes 
terminal, becoming lateral with an immense orbicular bracte 
at the base. 
Codizeum silvestre. Rumph, Amb, iv. t. 27. 
A native of the Moluccas, 
3. C. dioecum, R. 
Leaves alternate, long-petioled, oblong, with the base 
somewhat cordate. Racemes axillary, filiform, much longer 
than the leaves. 
A native of the — ae 
4.C. ich: R. | 
-iifShrebibys Branches proliferous, Leaves oblong, ventri- 
cose, entire, smooth above, sericeous with stellate scales. un- 
derneath. Racemes terminal, male flowers superior. 
A native of Sumatra, Flowering time inthe Botanie gar- 
den March and April. 
» Trunk short, soon dividing into many spreading branches, 
with their divisions proliferous, from three to six-cleft. Bark 
of the old ligneous parts brownish and scabrous, that of the 
young shoots. ferruginous with small, brown, peltate, stellate 
Seales; ac ae of six-years-old plants about six feet. 
Leaves , petioled, oblong ventricose, somewhat cor- 
date at the base, entire, rather obtuse, smooth, green above ; 
gray with numerous, small, sericeous scales underneath ; 
from two to’six inches long, Glands, two small flat, green 
ones at the base. Petioles from one to two inches long, 
round, brown with rust-coloured scales. Stipules setaceous. 
Racemes terminal, solitary, longer than the leaves, scaly ; the = 
Female flowers occupying the lower fourth ; and the male ones 
the upper three fourths, Male calyx five-parted. Segments 
