684 MONOECIA MONADELPHIA. Croton, 
pubescence. Leaves cordate-serrate, two pedicelled glands 
_ under the base. Racemes terminal, with male flowers on 
one, and female ones on another. Nut three-partible, parts. 
two-valved, | 
A native of the country about Dacea. Flowers in March, 
seed ripe in September. 
‘Trunk short, and ill defined. Branches many, ina bad 
soil shorter ; in a good soil and protected, long and scandent ; 
young parts rough with an immense quantity of short harsh 
stellate pubescence. Leaves alternate, petioled, cordate, cus- 
pidate, unequally and grossly serrate, three-nerved, harsh 
with stellate hairs, and having two yellow, pedicelled, sub- 
cyathiform glands immediately under the base, from four to 
six inches long, and threeor four broad. Petioles round,about 
an inch long, harsh. Stipules ensiform, sometimes pinnati- 
fid. Racemes terminal, simple, generally in pairs, becoming 
lateral by age, one bearing entirely male flowers, the other fe- 
male, and sometimes a few male ones at the apex, every part 
pubescent. Bractes subulate, one-flowered. Flowers small, 
of a dull yellowish green colour, Male calyx deeply five- 
cleft, rather shorter than the corol, Petals lanceolate, with 
very woolly margins. Nectary five yellow glands, alternate 
with the petals, Stamina numerous, as long as the petals, in- 
serted in a convex, woolly receptacle which occupies the 
whole centre of the flower. Female calyx as the male. Corol 
none. JVectary as in the male. Germ round, very hairy, 
three-celled, with one seed in each cell, attached to the top of 
es the axis. _ Styles three, each divided near the base into two 
long, filiform, hairy, variously contorted segments, Capsules 
drupaceous, tricoccous, globose, scabrous, clothed with stel- 
late pubescence, of the size of a large gooseberry. Cortex, 
when dry dividing from the apex into six portions ; nut thick 
and. very hard, spontaneously three-partible, each portion 
one-celled, two-valved. Seed or rather nut solitary, oval. 
Integuments two, the exterior one thick, of a bony hardness, 
rugose, of a chesnut colour, with a little stellate pubescence 
