Croton, MONOECIA MONADELPHIA, 685 
on the outside; the inner one a thin, white membrane. . Pe- 
risperm oinhited to the nut, pale yellow. Embryo inverse, — 
Cotyledons nearly as long as the perisperm, three-nerved in 
the fruit of the large variety; oblong-conic in the small ya- 
riety, sub-rotund. Radicle oblong, superior, 
10. C, oblongifolium. Roxb, 
Arboreous. Leaves oblong, serrate, two glanded at the 
base, smooth. Racemes terminal. Petals woolly. Stamens 
twelve, Capsules round, 
Beng. Buragach. 
A small tree, common in forests about Calcutta. Flower- 
ing time the beginning of the hot season, 
Trunk straight ; bark ash-coloured, and pretty per 
Leaves petioled, alternate, and thickly set about the ends of 
the branchlets, spreading or drooping, oblong, serrate, ob. 
tuse-pointed, very smooth on both sides, from six to twelve 
inches long. Petioles round and smooth, with a lateral gland 
on each side of their apices. | Stipules small, caducous, Ra- 
cemes terminal, generally solitary, erect, shorter than the 
leaves. Flowers solitary, a few female ones mixed with 
many male ones, small, of a pale yellowish green. Bractes 
three-fold, one-flowered. GJ/ands, on the. inside of each of 
the small, lateral bractes isa round permanent one, as in Se- 
samum Indicum. Male calyx deeply five-cleft, Petals 
six, smaller than the calyx, very woolly. Filaments twelve, 
distinct, nine in the circumference and three in the centre ; 
woolly toward the base. Female calyx and corol as in the 
male, Stamens none. Germ globular. Styles three, each 
divided into two very long, variously bent segments, Cap- 
sules globular, fleshy, six-furrowed, tricoccous. 
ll. C, Joufra. 
Arboreous, tender parts scaly. Leaves broad-ovate-lan- 
‘ceolate, serrate, Racemes sub-terminal, and lateral or axil- 
lary, much longer than the leaves. Male flowers above, and 
