CXT. EUPHORBIACE.?;. 607 



2. Chrozophora obliqua, A. Juss. Tent. EiipJwrh. (1824) p. 28. 

 Shrubby, erect or suberect, much-braui. hed, tbk-kly stellatelj tomeutose. 

 Leaves 1-2 by |-| in., ovate or ovate-lanceolate, sinuate-tootbed, sub- 

 obtuse, clothed on both sides with stellate toiueutura, base rounded or 

 cuueate, usually 2-glandular; main nerves few, prominent beneath; 

 petioles |-1 in. long ; stipules linear, soon falling. Flowers in axillary 

 bracteate racemes, the males in the upper part sessile, the females in tlie 

 lower part pedicellate ; bracts linear, hairy, -^^ in. long. Male flowers : 

 Calyx g-^ in. long, densely stellately tomeutose. Petals thin, mem- 

 branous, jL in. long. Stamens 5. Female flowers : Sepals -^ in. 

 long by g^Q in. wide at the base, triangular, very acute, stellately tomeu- 

 tose. Petals as the sepals but much narrower and shorter, stellately 

 tomeutose. Ovary clothed with stellate tomentum and silvery scales ; 

 styles 3, erect, -^ in. long, 2-tid to about | way down, stellately tomeu- 

 tose outside. Capsules ^ in. in diam., clothed with stellate tomentum 

 and silvery scales. Seeds roughly tuberculate. PI. B. I. v. 5, p. 409 ; 

 Boiss, PI. Orient, v. 4, p. 1141 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 

 (1899) p. 371. Croton ohhngifoUum, Delile, PI. Egypt, p. 139, t. 51, 

 fig. 1. 



Sind: Stocks] 



There is but 1 imperfect sheet in Herb. Kew. from the Bombay Presidency marked 

 as above, while there is only one other sheet from India in Herb. Kew., which is from 

 Ferozepiir in the Panjdb. — Distrib. Ai-abia, N. Africa. 



3. Chrozophora plicata, A. Juss. Tent. Eiqyhorh. (1824) p, 28. 

 Annual erect hoary herb reaching 2 ft. high with a long straight slender 

 tap-root ; stem usually naked in the lower part, slightly branched 

 above, stellately hairy. Leaves thick, pale, variable in shape and size, 

 2-4 by I5-4 in., ovate to orbicular, sometimes obscurely 3-lobed, 

 wrinkled, clothed on both sides with long stellate hairs, base truncate, 

 cordate or cuneate ; petioles 1-2 in. long. Plowers in pedunculate 

 densely stellately hairy racemes ; bracts linear, g-^ in. long, stellately 

 hairy. Male flowers : Calyx ^ in. long. Petals ^ in. long, very 

 thin, ovate-lanceolate. Stamens 15 in 2 whorls. Pemale flowers : 

 Sepals jlj by 3^^ in., triangular, acute, hairy. Petals as the sepals but 

 shorter and narrower, hairv. Styles J^^ in. long, slightly connate at the 

 very base, 2-fid to rather less than | way down. Capsules ^ in. in 

 diam., densely stellately hairy without silvery sc;iles. PI. B. I. v. 5, 

 p. 409; Dalz." & Gibs. 'p. 232; Woodr. in Journ. Bumb. Nat. v. 12 

 (1899) p. 371 ; Prain, Beng. PI. p. 944 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 2, 

 p. 620. Croton plicatum, Vahl, Symb. Bot. v. 1 (1790) p. 78 ; Grab. 

 Cat. p. 182. — Plowers : Apr. Vern. Siiryavarti. 



Deccan : in rice-fiekls after the rains, Graliam, Balzell cf Gibson ; Poona, CooJce !, 

 Woodrow] S. M. Country: Dliarwar, Cooke \ Gujarat; Balsell ^- (rihson ; Ank- 

 leshvar, Kanitkarl; Baroda, Woodrow. — Distrib. Throughout India in the drier 

 parts ; westward to Spain and N. Africa. 



A dye similar to that obtained from C. tivcioria may be obtained from this plant ; 

 the ashes of the root are given to children in coughs and the seeds are used as a 

 purgative. See Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. 1. c. 



4. Chrozophora prostrata, Dalzell, in Dalz. Sf Gibs. Bo. Fl. (1861) 

 p. 233. A procumbent hmnifuse stellately woolly herb; branches 

 numerous, spreading from the root, woolly -tomeutose. Leaves h~\\ in. 

 in diam., bioadl} o\ate or orbicular, dark-colored, deeply bullate, finely 



