ORD. XXXIX. Tricocce. 629 
CROTON CASCARILLA. CASCARILLA, Or, 
WILLOW -LEAVED CROTON. 
A AE SE TE I 
SYNONYMA. Cascarilla. Pharm. Lond. & Edinb. olim 
Elutheria dicta. Ricino affinis odorifera fruticosa major, rosmarini 
folio, fructu tricocco albido. Sloane Jam. p. 133. tab. 86. 
Croton (Rdsmarinifolium ) foliis lineari-lanceolatis, glabris, sub- 
tus argenteis, caule fruticoso, floribus spicatis terminalibus. 
Mill. Dict. Croton lineare foltis linearibus integerrimis obtusis 
subtus tomentosis, caule fruticoso. Aiton. Hort. Kew. vol. iii. 
p. 374. Jacquin Stirp. Americ. 256. tab. 162. . Am. Acad. 
5. p. All. 
Class Monoecia. Ord. Monadelphia. L. Gen. Plant. 1083. 
Ess. Gen. Ch. Masc. Cal. cylindricus, 5-dentatus. 
Cor. 5-petala. Stam. 10-15. 
Fem. Cal. polyphyllus. Cor. 0. Styli 3, bifidi. 
Caps. 3-locularis. Sem. 1. 
Sp. Ch. C. fol. lanceolatis acutis integerrimis petiolatis subtus 
tomentosis boreo. — 
_tom tosis, caule ar er 
ae ee ; gen = 
‘THIS Shrub never rises fo any considerable height ; it sends off 
several round branches, and is covered with a brown bark, the 
external coat of which is white and rough: the leaves are long, 
narrow, entire, somewhat pointed, placed on short footstalks, 
above of a bright green colour, beneath downy, and of a silvery 
whiteness; the stipulz, or scaly leaves, are narrow and lance- 
shaped ; the flowers are produced about July, in a long terminal 
spike, and are both male and female: the male flowers are placed 
uppermost, and are furnished with a cylindrical calyx, cut at its 
extremity inta five segments; the petals are five, small, oval, and 
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