Sajjium. monoecia monaullphia. 693 



2. S. sebij'ennn. R. 



Arboreous. Leaves broad-rhomb-ovate, pointed, waved, 

 entire, smooth, male flowers triandrous. 



Croton sebij'erum. Linn. sp. pi. 1425. 



Stillinoea sebijera. Willd. iv. 588. 



Ben(). Mom-China. 



Is now very conmion about Calcutta, where, in the course 

 of a few years it is become one of the most common trees. It 

 is in flower and fruit most part of the year. 



Trunk straight; bark ash-coloured, considerably cracked. 

 Branches numerous, the larger ones nearly erect, the smaller 

 ones spreading, with their extremities often beautifully pen- 

 dulous. Leaves scattered, petioled, rhombic, pointed, mar- 

 gins waved, smooth on both sides, about two inches each way. 

 Petioles nearly as long- as the leaves, slender, clmnnelled, 

 smooth, with two glands on the upper side of the apex. 

 Stipules caducous. Racemes terminal, cylindric. Male 

 FLOWERS fascicled, very numerous, small, yellow. Calyx 

 irregularly three-toothed. Carol none. JSTectary none. Fi- 

 laments from two to three, very short, not connected, .^n- 

 thers double. Fe.male flowers large, three or four below 

 the male. Calyx as in the male. Corol none. Sectary 

 none. Germ oblong. 5'<_j//es three, undivided. Capsule of 

 the size of a cherry, tricoccous, smooth. Seeds enveloped in 

 a white sebaceous substance. 



In Bengal it is only considered as an ornamental tree; the 

 sebaceous produce of its seeds is not in sufficient quantity, 

 nor its qualities so valuable as to render it an object worthy 

 of cultivation. Cocoa-nut oil is better for the lamp, and it is 

 only during very cool weather that this substance becomes 

 firm ; at all other times it is in a thick, brownish, fluid state, 

 and soon becomes rancid. Such is my opinion of the famous 

 veaetable tallow of China. 



3. S. cordij'oliuni. Roxb. 



Arboreous. Leaves cordate-serrate, cus[)idate, three-nerv- 



