Croton EUPIIORBIACE^E 1'85 



Hill, 2000 ft. ; Black River to New Market, 150 ft. ; near lighthouse, 

 Negril, 300ft.; Harris I Fl. Jam. 7102, 91G7, 9859,9880,10,240; Xegril, 

 I'.rittun rt- Hollick, 2083! Type in Herb. Ke\v. 



SJinth 3-9 ft. high ; some of the nodes suppressed where the branches 

 or inflorescence spring, so that three to five leaves come close together, as 

 if whorled ; young twigs rough with scattered flat-stellate hairs, at length 

 glabrate. Leaves: nerves 3 at base, pinnate above; petiole 3-20 mm. 1. 

 Ituceines terminal or axillary, 3-'J cm. 1., glabrous. Bracts lanceolate, 

 about 1 mm. 1. Pedicels : male to 6 mm. 1., in clusters of five or six, one 

 flower opening at a time. Male flowers : Calyx about 2 mm. 1., segments 

 ovate-elliptical, glabrous, with a minute tuft of hairs at apex. Petals 

 narrowly ovate-elliptical or obovate, 2' 5 mm. 1., pubescent on the lower 

 half inside. Stamens about 24(-35 fide Muell.) ; filaments glabrous. 

 l'\"inale flowers sessile, somewhat numerous. Call/./: : segments 2 '5-3 

 mm. 1. ; linear-lanceolate, without glands. Petals rudimentary. Ovary 

 very hispid. Styles once 2-parted or 2-cleft, slender, longer than the 

 ovary, coiled inwards at the apex. Capsule globular, about 5 mm. 1. 

 about 4 mm. 1. 



14. C. glandulosus L. Syst. ed. 10, 1275 (1759) & Amcen. v. 

 383, 409 ; leaves 2-3 '5 cm. 1., oblong-ovate, ovate, or elliptical, 

 base obtuse, coarsely serrate, both sides sparsely covered with 

 flat stellate hairs, or glabrescent, with two shortly stalked 

 saucer-shaped glands at base of limb beneath (less than 1 mm. 1.) ; 

 stipules linear, not glandular, about 2 mm. 1., soon falling.- 

 Geisel. op. cit. 64; Griseb. op. cit. 41 ; Muell. Arg. tout. fit. f)s: : 

 Urb. Si/nib. Ant. iv. 343. C. divaricatus Sw. Prodr. 100 (17> 

 A: FL Ind. Occ. 1187; GeiseL op. cit. 32. C. corchorifolius 

 Geisel. op. cit. 25 (1807). Type in Herb. Linn, from Browne. 



Browne I Brougliton ! Masson ! St. Andrew, McNab ! MacfaJijen, 

 Kingston, Prior !. Cuba, Hispaniola, Porto Rico, St. Cruz, Antigua, 

 Guadeloupe, Martinique, Trinidad, Curacao, continental America. 



Herb $ to 2 ft. high ; stems usually herbaceous, sometimes woody, 

 above with flat stellate hairs on branches, leaves, inflorescence, calyx, or 

 glabrate. Leaves oblong-ovate, ovate, or elliptical base obtuse, coarsely 

 serrate, with two shortly stalked saucer-shaped glands at base of limb 

 beneath (less than 1 mm. 1.), nerves pinnate and two at each side of the b: 

 2-3'5 cm. 1. ; petiole ^-J as long as the blade; stipules linear. Yuicv?/.v.s 

 with subsessile flowers, i'5-2cm. L, or shorter. Bracts linear, with a small 

 stalked globular mucronate gland on each side at the base. Mule //.<// 

 Calyx about 2 mm. L, segments oblong-elliptical, acute. Points -lightly 

 longer than the calyx. Stamens 10, filaments glabrous. Female jl 

 Calyx: segments unequal, spathulate with acute apex, to :; mm. L, 

 increasing in fruit to be nearly or quite as long as capsule. /V/V/x minute, 

 linear-lanceolate, gland-tipped. Ovary hirsute. Styles 2-parted ahn-t 

 to the base. Caj^nle 5-G mm. L, globular-ellipsoidal, glabrate or with a 

 few small stellate hairs. Seeds 4 mm. 1., lined on the back with rows of 

 minute pits. 



15. C. hirtus L'Hcr. Stirp. 17, /. 9 (1784); leaves I I 

 (2'5-7) cm. 1., roundish to ovate, sometimes slightly lohed, some, 

 especially the larger, doubly crenate-serratc. the smaller serrate, 

 both sides with flat stellate hairs, usually only one ray developed 

 on upper surface, with two long-stalked, cup-shaped, small glands 



