Croton. MONOECIA MONADELPHIA. 681 
short-ovate, Petals five, oblong, woolly. Filaments ten, ra- 
_ ther longer than the petals. Anthers ovate. Pistillum none. 
Female calyx five-cleft, Corol none. Nectary none. Germ 
round, densely clothed with stellate scales, three-celled, with 
one seed in each, attached to the upper end of the axis. 
Styles three, soon dividing into two long, reeurved divisions 
each. Stigmas simple.. 
5. C. plicatum, Willd, iv. 538. 
Annual, straggling. Leaves roundish-cordate, repand, 
hairy. Stamens monadelphous. Anthers fifteen. Capsules 
scabrous, beodg 
_ C, asperum. Kon. Mss. P 
C. tinctorium. Burm, Ind, 304. t. 62. f. 1. 
Beng. Khoodi-okra. 
Annual, and appearing in very great abundance on dried 
up rice, and other cultivated fields about the latter end of the 
cool season; the whole plant has a hoary, reddish appearance, 
and every part is covered with numberless, small, stellate, 
white hairs, which gives it a hoary look, Stem and branches 
several, round, dichotomous, weak, straggling, from one to . 
two feet long. Leaves alternate, petioled, broad-cordate, 
scolloped, waved, with two glands, one in each margin, close 
to the base, from one to two inches long, and nearly the same 
breadth. acemes terminal, few-flowered. Flowers pale 
yellow. MAaxg FLowers, about the female. Calyx five- 
leaved. Corol five-petalled, linear-lanceolate. Nectary none. 
_ Filaments coalesced. Anthers fifteen. FEMALE FLOWERS 
erect, Calyx and corol as in the male. The nectary is want- 
ing. Styles red. Capsules scabrous. 
Cloth moistened with the juice of the green capi soon 
becomes blue, after exposure to the openair, They no doubt 
Contain colouring matter, that might be usefully employed, 
probably similar to that of Croton tinctorium. 
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