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mature conclusion of one of the ablest of Indian botanists. The 
plant named C. plicatum, Ham., is the same as the prostrate plant 
callected by Heyne in Mysore in 1800; that named C. asperum is 
the herbaceous condition of C. Rottleri, Geis. 
his Indian career, which opened in 1819. They represent the 
same two plants distributed under 7716 C. The Pierwandy plant 
is C, plicatum, Ham. non Vahl, nec Willd., nec Roxb. The 
Madras plant is the herbaceous state of C. Rottleri, Geis. 
‘7716 E. Crfoton] plicatum, Herb. Madr.’ Neither locality 
nor collector’s name accompany this specimen. We know, how- 
ever, from other sources that many of the specimens belonging 
to the ‘Madras’ herbarium’ were collected by Rottler. This 
particular specimen is the shrubby condition of Croton Rottleri, 
Geis., and may well be a cotype of that species. If this be not 
the case, the origin of the plant sent by Rottler to Vahl cannot 
be traced with precision. It does not, however, follow that it 
who had gathered it at Devanur. It is therefore not impossible 
that Wallich n. ‘7716 E. Herb. Madras’ may also have been 
gathered by Klein. 
‘7716 F, Crfoton] asperum Herb. Russ.’ This specimen was 
collected by Dr. Patrick Russell, F.R.S., and therefore, as we 
ow from other sources, came from the Northern Cirears. The 
plant is the herbaceous condition of C. Rottleri, Geis. 
‘7716 G. Hindustania.’ This specimen has been cited by 
Miller (DC. Prodr. xv. 2. p. 749) as having been collected by 
Wallich. Other authors have copied Miller. The label with the 
indication ‘ Hindustania’ was, however, written by Roxburgh. 
The field-note, on the other hand, was written by Hardwicke, and 
indicates that the plant was collected at Bindraban, a sacred city 
on the Jumna close to Mattra. It came, therefore, from a locality 
which neither Roxburgh nor Wallich ever visited, and one to 
which neither of these botanists ever sent their own collectors. 
The chief interest of this plant is that it is the first Chrozophora 
_ with lepidote in place of stellate-pubescent capsules to be found in 
India. Though closely allied to the ‘Tournesol,’ Croton tinc- 
