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ANTIDESMA. f.b.l 135 xxiii. 



Trees and shrubs with entire leaves and unisexual 

 flowers in slender simple or panicled spikes. No petals. 

 Stamens 2 to 5, inflexed in bud. Fruit small. 



Species about 70 in tropical Asia, Africa, Australia and 

 Pacific Islands. 



Antidcsma menasu Miq.; F.B.L v 364, XXIII 25. A 

 small tree. Leaves elliptic oblong, glabrous, 5 to 8 inches 

 by l/^ to 2% inches. Spikes 4 to 6 inches. Male flower 

 1/12 inch in diameter, pedicels I/16 inch. Female flowers 

 sessile, t. 499. 



Nilgiris and Pulneys ; 6,000 feet and below Coonoor, Shem- 

 baganur, etc. 



. CROTON. 



Tree or shrubs. Leaves alternate with 2 glands at 

 the base. Flowers solitary or clustered in a terminal 

 raceme with small bracts, monoecious. Male flowers 

 with petals, female without. Stamens numerous free, the 

 anther inflexed in bud. Fruit a capsule. 



Species many in all hot countries. The common garden 

 crotons belong really to a slight different genus Codi^um. 



Croton aromaticus L.; F.B.L v 388, XXXIV. An 

 aromatic shrub. Leaves 2 to 4 in. by I to 3 in. scabrid 

 on the upper side, pubescent on the lower. Ovary 

 hispid with stellate hairs- Capsule obscurely lobed. t. 

 500. Wight Ic. t. 1915. 



Nilgiris : Kotagiri, etc. 



MALLOTUS. F.B.I. 135 Liii. 



Trees and shrubs with opposite or alternate leaves. 

 Flowers small without petals, in terminal panicles or 

 spikes. Stamens in the male 20 to 30, filaments free, 

 anthers globose. Ovary in the female flower, of 2 to 4 

 cells, each with I ovule. Fruit a capsule. 



Species about 80, in the tropics of the Old World. 



