Sapium. MONOECIA MON ADELPHIA, 693 
2. S. sebiferum., R 
Arboreous. mess broad-rhomb-ovate, pointed, ane 
entire, smooth, male flowers triandrous. 
Croton sebiferum. Linn. sp. pl. 1425, 
Stillingea sebifera., Willd, iv. 588." 
Beng. Mom-China, 
Is now very common about Calcutta, where, in the course 
ofa few years it is become one of the most common trees, It 
is in flower and fruit most part of the year. 
‘Trunk straight; bark ash-coloured, considered cracked, 
Bvoiches numerous, the larger ones nearly erect, the smaller 
ones spreading, with their extremities often beautifully pen- 
dulous. Leaves scattered, petioled, rhombic, pointed, mar- 
gins waved, smooth on both sides, about two inches each way. 
Petioles nearly as long as the leaves, slender, channelled, 
‘smooth, with two glands on the upper side of the apex. 
Stipules caducous, Racemes terminal, cylindric. MAaLe 
FLOWERS fascicled, very numerous, small, yellow. Calyx 
irregularly three-toothed. Corol none. .Nectary none. Fi- 
laments from two to three, very short, not connected, .An- 
thers double. FEMALE FLOWERS large, three or four below 
the male. Calyx as in the male. Corol none. Nectary 
none. Germ oblong. Styles three, undivided. Capsule of 
the size of a cherry, tricoccous, smooth. Seeds vragen 
a white sebaceous substance. 
In Bengal it is only considered as an ornamental tree ; the 
sebaceous produce of its seeds is not in sufficient quantity, 
nor its qualities so valuable as to render it an object worthy 
of cultivation. Cocoa-nut oil is better for the lamp, and it is 
only during very cool weather that this substance becomes 
‘firm; at all other times it is in a thick, brownish, fluid state, 
and soon becomes rancid, Such is my opinion of the famous 
ee tallow of China. : 
8. S. cordifolium. Roxb. 
Arboreous, Leaves cordate-serrate, cuspidate, three-nerv- 
