14. Cboton.] 22. EVTROBBIACEM. [16. Jatbopha. 



Chota Nagpur, Wood's list. The tree is indigenous in the Eastern 

 Himalaya and the Malay Archipelago. Fl. June. Fr. Aug. -Sept. (in 

 Bhotan). The seeds yield the well-known Croton Oil. 



3. C. CaudatuS, Geisel. 



A sab-scandent shrub with stellately-pubescent leaves with 

 3-5-nerved base and long slender racemes 4-10". 



Chota Nagpur, Wood's list. Loc. ? It is common in the damper parts 

 of Bengal and fls. March. 



N.B.— The 3hrubs with brightly variegated foliage commonly known aa 

 Crotons belong to the genus Codiaeum. The styles are entire. 



15. Ckrozopliora, Neck. 

 1. C. plicata, -4. Juss. Pango nari, S. ? 



A coarse herb or undershrub, often prostrate, stellate 

 tomentose all over with sinuate more or less rugose or plaited 

 leaves and fls. in axillary short bracteate racemes. 



A common weed of waste land, described by Campbell as a common and 

 abundant scandent bush in the Tundi hills ! Fl., Fr. August— April. 



L. variable in size 1-4" hoary, ovate. F. fl. pedicelled usually few or 

 solitary at, the base, and the male fls. pale yellow crowded in the 

 upper part of the raceme. 



16. Jatroplia, L. 



Usually shrubs, frequently glandular, with pabnately 

 nerved, entire or palmately-lobed leaves at the ends of the 

 branches. Fls. monoecious in terminal corymbose cymes,, 

 usually petaliferous and calyx frequently petaloid, petals 5 

 often more or less connate. St. 8 or more, the inner or all 

 connate. Fr. capsular. 



Pet. red free or connate at base. Glandular . 1. gossypijolia. 

 Pet. yellow. Eglandular . . . .2. Curcas. 



1. J. gossypifolia, L. Bhernda, verenda, E.; S., and IT*; 



Lal-bherenda, Beng. 



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