Gelonium. DIOECIA ICOSANDRIA, 829 
Croton gossypifolium, Vahl. Symb. ii, 98, ¢. 49, is much 
like the male, and the female is labelled a Ricinus in the Banks- 
ian Herbarium. 
A native of the Malay Islands, The male plant flowers dur- 
ing the hot season in the Botanic garden at Calcutta. 
5. R, alba, R. 
Arboreous, Leaves alternate, long-petioled, cordate, some- 
what peltate, and slightly scollop-dentate, hoary underneath, 
Panicles terminal, Capsules villous, armed with villous fila- 
ments, 
A native of Prince of Wales’ Island. It flowers in the Bo- 
tanic garden during the rains and the beginning of the cool 
season, 
6. R, dicocca. R. 
Scandent. Leaves round-cordate, alternate, three-nerved . 
Racemes terminal, and axillary. Capsules dicoccous, 
Aleurites laccifera. Willd, iv. 590. 
Teling. Kanda-veltoo, 
Hind. Akoos. 
A native of various parts of India. it iva weak, though. 
large, sub-scandent shrub. Flowering time the hot season ; 
the seed ripens in the rainy season. 
7. R. hexa ndria, R. 
Leaves alternate, long-petioled, rhomb-cordate, cuspidate. 
Stipules ensiform, Male panicles axillary, bearing heads 
of hexandrous flowers, 
A native of the Malay Archipelago, and has a great deal 
of the habit of Rotélera alba: 
ss GELONIUM. Gart. : 
‘Mare, Calyx five-leaved. Corol none. Femaue. Ca- 
lyx five or six-leaved. Corol none. Germ superior, two or 
three-celled ; cel/s one-seeded ; attachment superior, Capsule 
