104 EUPHORBIACEZ. —_ [. Croton. 
C. 'fieLium, Linn.; Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii, 682 ; Brandis For. Fl. 440 ; 
F. B. I. v, 393; Watt E. D.; Gamble Man. 614°; Prain Beng. Pl. 
943 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb. ti, 600.—Vern Jaipdl (The Purging Croton). 
A small evergreen tree, with the young shoots stellately hairy. Leaves 
glabrous and membranous, 2-4 in. long, ovate, acuminate serrate, 
3-5-nerved. Stamens 15-20. Capsule 2-1 in. long, ovoid, 3-goaous. 
The plant is not truly indigenous in India, but it is frequently found 
as if wild, and in some parts of India is becoming naturalized. It 
is often cultivated in native gardens for the sake of the powerfully 
purgative oil yielded by the seeds. The so-called garden ‘* Crotons,” 
with variegated leaves, and which are much cultivated in Indian 
gazdens, belong to the genus Codieum. 
13. CHROZOPHORA, Neck. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. v, 408. 
Diffuse densely hispid or stellately tomentose herbs or under- 
shrubs. Leaves alternate, sinuate-toothed or lobed, wavy or plaited, 
2-glandular at the base. Flowers moneecious, in sessile axillary 
bracteate racemes ; males crowded in the upper part of the raceme ; 
females solitary and pedicelled. Matz fil. Calyx globose or ovoid, 
splitting into 5 valvate segments. Petals 5, short. Disk obscure. 
Stamens 5-15, filaments connate below in 1-3 series, anthers oblong ; 
cells parallel, contiguous. Pistillode none. Frm. fl. Sepals i, 
very narrow, sometimes setaceous or obsclete. Disk of 5 short 
broad glands alternate with the petals. Ovary 3-celled ; styles 
2-fid., erect or spreading, ovules solitary in each cell. Fruit a 
capsule of 3 hispid tomentose or scaly almost fleshy 2-valved cocci 
Seeds without a strophiole, testa shining, albumen fleshy ; coty- 
ledons broad, flat.—Species about 7, Asiatic, Mediterranean and 
African, 
Ovary and capsule clothed with stellate to- 
mentum and silvery scales; stamens5 «sil. C. obliqua, VAR 
hierosolymitana. 
Ovary and capsule clothed with stellate to- 
mentum, but without silvery scales; 
stamens 15, in 2 series :— 
An erect stellately hairy herb sparingly 
branched below ; leaves up to 4 in. long, 
pale-green ; sepals of female flowers tri- 
angular ; 3 : es - 3&8. C.: Rottleri. 
