Croton. MONOECIA MONADELPHIA. 683 
Male flowers, from fifteen to twenty woolly, unconnetied 
stamens. Female without corol, 
Sans, Jayapala, 
Hind, Jamal gata. 
Cadal avanacu, Rheed. Mal. ii. t. 33. 
Granum Moluccum, Rumph, Amd. iv, t, 42. 
It grows to be a small tree, from fifteen to twenty feet in 
height, in the Company’s Botanic garden’at Calcutta, and in 
- flower most part of the year. 
Trunk a little crooked, as thick as a man’s thigh. » Bark 
smooth, ash-coloured. Wood white and hard. Branches 
rather thin. Leaves alternate, petioled, ovate-cordate, slight- 
ly serrate, pretty smooth, from three to five inches long, and 
from two to three broad. , Racemes terminal, erect. Mate 
- ¥LOWERS above and numerous. FEMALE FLOWERS always 
single, rather longer, occupying the lower part of the raceme, 
Male calyx five-parted. Petals five, oblong, very woolly on 
the inside, and margin. /i/aments from fifteen to twenty, 
distinct, woolly towards the base. Female calyx as the male. 
Corol none. Nectary, some small glands round the base of 
the germ. — 
The tree has a disagreeable smell, the taste of the baie 
is Dbsicwtiedty nauseous and of long duration. Tamul Phy- 
sicians say the seed. of this tree purges effectually and easily, 
removing all obstructions in the bowels; and that it cures all 
venereal complaints, and bites of venomous animals, . 
* 8, C. Halecum. R. 
» Arboreous. Leaves approximate, long-petioled, round, 
re-entering, cordate, entire, downy underneath, male panicles 
axillary. .Calyx three-toothed, Corol none, 
- Halecus alba. Rumph. Amb, iii. p. 198, 
~ A native of the Moluccas. ¢ 
“OC, drupaceum. R. 
~'Shrubby, often scandent, every part scabrous with stellate 
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