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lets. Female flowers: sepals spathulate-laneeolate, obtuse; ovary densely lepi- 

 dote; styles 4-fid to the middle. Male flowers: petals obovate; stamens 6; 

 filaments" villous below. Capsule ellipsoid-globose,) densely lepidote; seeds 

 smooth and shining. 



Scrub-lands, Cat Island, Great Exuma, Long Island and Atwood Cay : Cuba. 

 Rosemary Croton. 



$ 2. Croton linearis Jacq. Enum. 32. 1760. 



Croton Cascarilla L. Sp. PI. ed. 2: 1424. 1763.* 



Croton Cascarilla linearis Willd. Sp. PI. 4: 532. 1805. 



Croton Cascarilla Benn. Jour. Linn. Soc. 4: 30. As to specimen and descr. 



1860. 

 Croton Fergusonii Small, Fl. SE. U. S. 695. 1903. 



A shrub 1-2 m. high, with yellowish, densely stellate twigs. Leaves short- 

 pctiolate, narrowly linear (on young shoots often oblong) 3.8-7 cm. long, 2-6 

 mm. wide, obtuse, dark and smooth above, silvery or golden with stellate 

 tomentum beneath, narrowing to the biglandular base. Inflorescence racemose, 

 the male 4-8 mm. or more long, the female shorter. Male flowers: sepals 5-6, 

 triangular; petals spatulate, obtuse, ciliate, longer than the sepals; stamens 

 about 15. Female flowers: sepals narrow, acuminate; petals obsolete or rudi- 

 mentary. Capsule subglobose, yellowish-floecose; seeds broadly oblong, dark 

 greenish brown, minutely and very shallowly puncticulate, 3 mm. long, 2.8 mm. 

 broad. 



Coastal rocks and plains throughout the archipelago to Caicos and Turks 

 Islands : Florida ; Jamaica ; Hispaniola. Referred to in Field Mus. Bot. 2 : 

 152 and by Coker as C. discolor Willd. Linear-leaved Croton. Bay Wormwood. 

 Granny-bush. 



3. Croton flocculosus Geisl. Crot. Monog. 14. 1807. 



A low shrub with yellowish-tomentose branchlets. Leaves long-petioled, 

 ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 3.8-10 cm. long, 2-3.5 cm. wide, stellate-scabrous 

 above, stellate-downy beneath, entire, acuminate, the base obtuse, biglandular; 

 glands globose-scutelliform, sessile; inflorescence terminal, racemose, 3.5 cm. 

 long; seeds ovoid-lenticular, dark grayish green, scattered shallow-poculate, 

 2 mm. long, 1 mm. broad. 



Waste places near Nassau, New Providence: Hispaniola; Guadeloupe: Mar- 

 tinique; Barbados. Referred by Dolley to C. flavens L., which it resembles. Rock 

 Balsam. 



x 4. Croton Eluteria (L.) Sw. Prodr. 100. 1788. 



Clutia Eluteria L. Sp. PI. 1042 (ante). 1753. 



Clutia Cascarilla L. loc. cit. (post). 1753. 



Croton Cascarilla Benn. loc. cit. 30, as to references.* 1860. 



A silvery-shining shrub or small tree, 2-4 m. high, with a rich spicy odor; 

 branchlets rusty-lepidote. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, entire or repand, blunt- 

 pointed, long-petioled, 3.2-7.6 cm. long, 12-16 mm. broad near the rounded 

 base, dark and glabrous above, minutely silvery-lepidoie beneath, minutely 

 pellucid-punctate; stipules early deciduous. Inflorescence in terminal racemes 

 3.7-5 cm. long. Female flowers: petals white, villous on the margin; styles 

 bipartite, the branches 2-fid. Male flowers: stamens 10-12. Seeds oval-oblong, 

 biconvex, opaque, blotched, 8 mm. long, 6 mm. broad. 



Coppices, becoming scarce, Great Harbor Cay of the Merry Group southward to 

 Marihuana. Endemic. Cascarilla Babe. Sweet wood Babe. Keeitheka Babe. 

 Catesby, 2 : pi. !fi. 



* For a detailed consideration of Croton Cascarilla see Field Mas. Bot. 2 : 306-S. 



