284 FLORA OF JAMAICA Croton 



dark coloured, with a few stellate hairs, soon dropping ofF.- 

 (leixd. op. fit. 2i) ; Griwb. op. cit. 39 ; MarJI. Arg. torn. tit. 549. 

 C. inontanus Gcisel. op. cit. 23. 



Pedro savanna, St. Elizabeth, Piirdie ! Wilson I Moneague, Priori Falls 

 River, 20UO ft.; Chelsea Hill, St. Cruz Mts., 2200 ft. ; Peckham, Clarendon, 

 2500 ft. ; Middlesex, St. Ann, 1GOO ft. ; Harris ! PI. Jam. 5769. 9691, 

 11,093, 12,033. Cuba, Hispaniola, Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique, 

 St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Venezuela. 



Shrub or tree, 12-30 ft. high, aromatic. Upper portions of twigs, also 

 leaves, petioles, inflorescence, covered with whitish stellate hairs, dense 

 on youngest parts. Leaves : stellate hairs more or less dense beneath, 

 somewhat sparse on upper surface, papery; nerves 3-5 at base, pinnate 

 above ; petiole usually about one-third as long as the limb, sometimes 

 nearly one-half as long, l-3(-5) cm. 1. Racemes 1-2 dm. 1. Flowers sub- 

 sessile. Male flowers : Calyx 2'5 mm. 1., segments oblong-ovate. Petals 

 slightly over 2 mm. 1., oblanceolate, densely woolly inside. Stamens 16-18 ; 

 filaments glabrous. Female flowers : Calyx 3 mm. 1. ; segments about 

 2 mm. 1. Petals about 1 mm. 1., linear, gland-tipped. Ovary white- 

 tomeiitellous with stellate hairs. Styles branching into two below the 

 middle, branches entire. Capsule about 1 cm. 1., ellipsoidal, covered with 

 stellate hairs. 



12. C. populifolius Lam. Encyc. ii 205 (1786); leaves 

 3-11 cm. ]., ovate, shortly acuminate, base cordate, obtuse, or 

 acute, serrate, with a few stellate hairs on both sides, teeth at 

 base glandular, basal glands various, sometimes linear or wanting ; 

 stipules 5-10 mm. L, cut into linear gland-tipped segments. 

 Sw. Prodr. 101 & Fl. Ltd. Occ. 1197; Geisel. op. cit. 27; Griseb. 

 op. cit. 41 ; MuelL Arg. torn. cit. 653. C. hircinus Vent. Jard. 

 Halm. 50 u-itli t. (1803). 



Southern parts, Swartz I Cuba, Martinique, St. Vincent, Grenada, 

 Bequia, Venezuela, Colombia, Panama. 



Shrub to 5 or 6* ft. high, with a goaty smell; young parts villose. 

 Leaves : nerves two on each side from base, pinnate above ; petiole as long 

 as the leaf to one-third as long. Racemes 5-15 cm. 1. Bracts lanceolate, 

 toothed, 4 mm. 1. Male flowers : Calyx about 2 5 mm. 1. ; segments ovate, 

 with a few stellate hairs outside, or glabrate. Petals about 3 mm. L, 

 elliptical. Stamens 8-12 ; filaments pubescent below. Female flowers : 

 Calyx about 5 mm. 1. ; segments oblong-lanceolate, villose outside and 

 with groups of two or three glands together at intervals. Petals linear or 

 lanceolate, acute, sometimes wanting. Disk ring-like. Ovary hispid with 

 stellate hairs. Styles 4- or 5-parted, glabrous. Capsule 6-7 mm. L, broadly 

 ellipsoidal. 



13. C. Wilsonii Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 40 (1859); leaves 

 crowded as if whorled, 10-4 cm. L, elliptical to oblong-lanceolate, 

 short or long acuminate, serrulate, teeth glandular, upper surface 

 glabrous, beneath with a few stellate hairs, at length glabrate ; 

 glands cylindrical at base of midrib beneath, 2 or 1, or wanting ; 

 stipules small, inconspicuous. Muell. Arg. torn. cit. 660. 



Pepper Rod. 



Wright I Lime savanna, Clarendon, Purdie ! Wilson ! Fawcett \ Grand- 

 vale, Westmoreland, 500 ft. ; Lapland, near Catadupa, 1500 ft. ; Spur Tree 



