678 WONOECIA 3IONADELPHIA. Cvoton. 



Root annual. Stem with many, ascending, round, smooth 

 branches, from twelve to eighteen inches high. Leaves 

 long-petioled, round-cordate, obtuse-pointed, three-nerved, 

 crenate, pretty smooth, from one to two inches long. Invo- 

 lucres axillary, crowded, sessile, proliferous, from two to 

 three-flowered, from three to four-parted, segments narrow, 

 entire, sub-ciliate. Male flowers most minute, purplish, 

 collected in a minute head, which springs from the exterior 

 involucre only, the whole including its little pedicel, shorter 

 than the involucre. P'emale flowers two or three in suc- 

 cession, in each involucre. Calyx none, or too minute to be 

 discovered. Corol none. Germ three-lobed, hairy. Styles 

 two or three-cleft. Capsules rugose. 



7. A. cylindrica. Roxb. 



Annual, hairy. Leaves long-petioled, sub-ovate, obtuse- 

 ly serrate. Spikes axillary, solitary, sessile, lower part cy- 

 lindrical with a one-flowered, deeply dentate, ribbed involu- 

 cre, minute and male. 



A native of the Mauritius, from thence brought to the Bo- 

 tanic garden at Calcutta, where it flowers and ripens its seed 

 more or less the whole year, but chiefly during the rainy 

 season. 



CROTON. Schreb.gen. N. 1462. 

 Male calyx five-leaved, or five-parted. Corol five-petal- 

 led. Stamina various. Female calyx generally as in the 

 male. Corol as in the male, or none. Capsule tricoccous. 



1. C. variegaium, Willd. iv. 531. 



Shrubby, erect. Leaves lanceolate, smooth, entire, gene- 

 rally pointed ; male flowers with small, ragged, obversely re- 

 niform petals, and twenty or more distinct stamens. Styles 

 three, undivided. 



Tsjera maram. Rheed. Mai. vi. ^ 61. 



