Croton. MONOECIA MONADELPnrA. 681 



short-ovate. Pc/a/s five, obloncr, woolly. Filaments ten, ra- 

 ther longer than the petals. Anthers ovate. Pistillum none. 

 Female calyx five-cleft. Corol none. JVcctary none. Germ. 

 round, densely clothed with stellate scales, three-celled, with 

 one seed in each, attached to the upper end of the axis. 

 Styles three, soon dividing into two long-, recurved divisions 

 each. Stigmas simple. 



5. C. plicatum. Willd. iv. 538. 



Annual, straggling. Leaves roundish-cordate, repand, 

 hairy. Stamens monadelphous. Anthers fifteen. Capsules 

 scabrous. 



C. asperum. K'on. Mss. 



C. tinctorium. Burm. Ind. 304. /. 62./. 1. 



Beng. Khoodi-okra. 



Annual, and appearing in very great abundance on dried 

 up rice, and other cultivated fields about the latter end of the 

 cool season; the whole plant has a hoary, reddish appearance, 

 and every part is covered with numberless, small, stellate, 

 white hairs, which gives it a hoary look. Stem and branches 

 several, round, dichotomous, weak, straggling, from one to 

 two feet long. Leaves alternate, petioled, broad-cordate, 

 scolloped, waved, with two glands, one in each margin, close 

 to the base, from one to two inches long, and nearly the same 

 breadth. Racemes terminal, few-flowered. Flowers pale 

 yellow. Male flowers, about the female. Calyx five- 

 leaved. CoroZ five-petalled, linear-lanceolate. Jfectary none. 

 Filaments coalesced. Anthers fifteen. Female flowers 

 erect. Calyx and corol as in the male. The nectary is want- 

 ing. Styles red. Capsules scabrous. 



Cloth moistened with the juice of the green capsules, soon 

 becomes blue, after exposure to the open air. They no doubt 

 contain colouring matter, that might be usefully employed, 

 probably similar to that of Croton tinctorium. 



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