_ OxrozopHora.] EUPHORBIACES. 105 
Prostrate woolly herbs diffusely branching 
from the root; leaves up to 1} in. in 
diam., often dark purplish-brown ; sepals 
of female flowers linear :— 
Leaves about as broad as long, eglandular 
at the base : : : : . 3. C. prost-ata. 
Leaves longer than broad, 2-glanduler at 
the base ‘ ; hs C. prostrata, VAR. 
= parvifolia. 
1. C. obliqua, 4 Juss. Tent. Euphorb. 28, var. hierosoly- 
wtitana, Spreng. Syst. 850. C. verbascifolia, A. Juss. Croton 
tinctorius, Wall. Cat 7716G. Leaves ovate, nearly as long as broad, 
usually more or less toothed, clothed on both sides with stellate 
tementum. Stamens 5. Ovary and capsule clothed with stellate 
hairs and silvery scales. Seeds glabrous. 
The only locality recorded for this plant as occurring within the area 
of this flora is Muttra, where specimens are said to have gathered 
many years ago by Colonel Hardwicke, but by no other collector 
east of the Jumna subsequently. The plant appears to be widely 
distributed in the Punjab Plain from Ambala to Rawal Pindi and 
on the Salt Range ; it extends also to Arabia, Palestine (Garden of 
Gethsemane near Jerusalem, collected by Sieber) and North Africa. 
2, C.Rottleri, A. Juss. Tent. Euphorb. 28. C. plicata, Dalz. 
and Gibs. (not of A. Juss.) ; Royle Ill. 329; F. B. I. v, 409 ; Watt 
EB. D.; Prain Beng. ! 1. 944; Cooke Fl. Bomb. ii, 607. Croton 
plicatus, Vahl ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii, 681. 
An erect hoary annual herb up to 2 ft. high, with a long straight slender 
tap-root. Stem usually naked below, sparingly branched above. 
Leaves 2-4 in. long, ovate to orbicular, often obscurely 3-lobed, 
thick, rugose, pale-green, stellate-hairy on both surfaces ; petioles 
1-2 in. long. Male flowers. Calyx } in. long. Petals smaller, very 
thin, ovate-lanceolate. Stamens 15, in two whorls. Fem. fiowers. 
Sepals +; in. long, triangular. Petals shorter and narrower. Cap- 
sules } in. in diam., densely stellate-hairy, but without silvery scales. 
Mirzapur at Shahganj (J.D.H.). Disrris.: Punjab Plain (T. Thomson); 
Sind (Stocks); Gujarat (D. and G.); Dharwar (Cooke). 
Decean (D. and G., Graham, Cooke); Behar (J.D. H.) Bengal 
(Prain); Chota Nagpur (Haines); Burma (Griff); also in Madras 
Pres., extending to N. Africa and Spain. The root and leaves are 
stated by Stewart to be used medicinally in the Punjab. 
