Croton Eri'IIuKBIAcK.K J83 



twice. Capsule obovoid-globose, tuberculate, scaly, scurfy, 7-9 mm. 1. 

 / dark brown. ('. mm. 1. 



Wright (loc. cit.) considers that "the bark is the same as the ra^carilla 

 and eleutheria of the shops." 



10. C. humilis L. >/. ed. 10, 1276 (1759), Amen. o. 410, 383, 

 A: Sp. PL cd. 2, 1427; leaves 1'5 5*5 < i m. L, ovate to ovate- 

 lanceolate, more or less acuminate, base more or less cordate or 

 rounded, margin with distant minute stalked glands, upper side 

 somewhat puberulous, stellate-haired, or glabrescent, beneath 

 white or yellowish-grey with stellate tomentum, without distinct 1 y 

 basal glands ; stipules minute, with glandular lobes, or con- 

 spicuous, split up into linear glandular lobes. Sic. Obs. Bot. 363 ; 

 Geisel. op. cit. 15; Griseb. op. cit. 41 (excl. var.; ; Mn>-U. Ar<j. 

 tout. cit. 670 ; Urb. Symb. Ant. ii>. 343. C. fruticulosum minus An-. 

 Browne Hist. Jam. 347. C. salvifolium Mill. Diet. ed. 6 (1768). 

 C. albidus 3IucU. Ary. torn. cit. 671 (1866). Type in Herb. Linn. 

 from Browne. 



Pepper Rod. 



Sloane Herb. ii. 90*! Houstounl Lane in Herb. Sloane clxii. 120! 

 \\~rigktl Brougliton\ Shakspear] Swartz I Bancroft I Macfadyen\ 



pastures near the sea, Manchester, 1'nrdicl Kingston, Prior ! March I 

 Liguanea plain. J.P. 1364, Morris \ Kingston, Hitchcock; also Clitte \ 

 Bethlehem, St. Elizabeth, T. Harrisl near Alligator Pond, 500ft.; Long 

 Mt., 30 ft.; Yardley Chase, 1600 ft.; Portland Point and Rocky Point; 

 Harris I near Bull Bay, Harris & Brittonl Fl. Jam. 6266, 8284, 9585, 9676, 

 10,183, 10,788. Florida, Bahamas, Hispaniola, Porto Rico, St. Thomas, 

 Mexico, Yucatan. 



Shrub 1-5 ft. high, aromatic. Young twigs, inflorescence, calyx whitish 

 or yellowish-grey with stellate tomentum. Leaves pinnate-nerved, with 

 one or two nerves on each side from the base ; petiole usually half as long 

 as the leaf. Racemes slender, 3-14 cm. 1. Bracts small, ovate, acumin 

 more or less cut into gland-bearing segments. Pedicels : male 2-4 mm. 1., 

 female 1-2 mm. 1. Flowers white. Male jlower* : Calyx 2-2' 7 mm. 1. ; 

 segments elliptical. Petals about as long as calyx, elliptical, narrowed to 

 base, pubescent at apex and on margin of lower half. Disk represented 

 by lleshy glands opposite the sepals. Stamens indefinite in number,' 

 twenty. Female Jluir, r.s : Calyx 4 mm. L, increasing in fruit; segments 

 asually ciliate with stalked glands, oblong, somewhat broader near apex. 

 Petals thread-like, gland-tipped, nearly 2 mm. 1. /^/,- ring-like. (_>n//v/ 

 with stellate hairs. Styles 4-parted, thread-like, hairy, involute at a; 

 Capsule 5-6 mm. 1., glabrate, globular-3-lobed. Seeds usually with slight 

 diagonal ridges on b . : 4 mm. 1. 



11. C. eorylifolius Lam. En<-y<-. //'. _'(.).") (1786); one 

 cf and two or three male llo\\cis in tin- ;ixil nf c.-i.-li lower 

 bract; leaves varying much in si/e, .')-!.") t-in. 1., broadly ovulr. 

 or ellijitical to obloDg-elliptical or ol)long, ba>.- Bubcordate or 

 obtuse, margin invgiihirly serrate-dentate, MUiictinics with cylin- 

 drical glands, teeth glandular, with \\\n ^lamls at apex of peti"].- 

 abo\'e. youngest leaves covered with stellate h:iiis, older spnr.-cly 

 or glabfi -( 'on t ; stipules liiie;i r a< i im i nai i . .""t-6 mm. L, 



