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CROTON MULTICOLOR. 



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CROTON MULTICOLOR. 



Our illustration of this most distinct of the many varieties of Croton 

 is also taken from a photograph, and is a most faithful illustration. 

 We need scarcely say that it is one of those many fine varieties dis- 

 covered by Mr John Gould Veitch in the South Sea Islands. The 

 leaves, as will be observed, are very irregular in shape, oblong, spathu- 

 late, tapering at the base, and contracting in an irregular manner at the 



Fig. 22.— Croton Multicolor. 



centre. They attain a length of 8 to 9 inches. " The young leaves 

 are of a light-green blotched with yellow, but turning with age on the 

 upper surface into a glossy green, puckered and irregularly blotched 

 with yellow, reddish yellow, and red; the midrib is crimson, the second- 

 ary veins yellowish, the under surface being red," and from this great 

 diversity of colouring it received the name Multicolor. 



