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African plants in question the leaves are 2-glandular at the 
base, the capsules are violet-purple and yield a dye, the stigmas 
are red and the petals, so far as is known, are always pink. 
Norruern Inpra. Panjab: Jalapur, Vicary (Croton stelli- 
gerum, Vicary MSS.)! Lahore, 7. Thomson! Multan; Royle! 
Edgeworth, 8028! Upper Gangetic Plain: Gorakhpur, Duthie, 
2249a! Behar; Patna, Hamilton, 2107 (Wall. Cat. n. 7716 © 
partim)! Naoranga, near the River Son, Jacquemont, 112! 200! 
Western Inpra. Gujarat: Rajkot, Birdwood! Concan: 
Northern district, Ritchie! Deccan: Aurangabad, Ralph, 22! 
Egadon and Vouanagram, Campbell! Kolapur, Ritchie, 1345! 
North Canara; Bomanhulli, Talbot, 270! 359! without precise 
locality, Stocks! 
Centra Inpia. Malwa: Guna, King, 34! without precise 
locality, Jerdon! Central Provinces: Nimar; Khandwa, Duthie, 
8421! without precise locality, R. Thompson, 230! 
Sourwern Inpta. Mysore: near Mysore, Heyne (Herb. 
Rottler, also Wall. Cat. n. 7716 B partim)! Carnatic: Pierwandi, 
Wight, 63 (Wall. Cat. n. 7716 D partim)! Kistna; Kaduva Kad- 
hura, Gamble, 12562! Chingalpat; Vellapura Choultri, Griffith! 
adras, G. Thomson, 110! Salem; Shevaroi Hills, Perrottet, 
pk Pondicheri, Lecomte! Raymond! Tranquebar, Koenig! 
ottler! 
2. Chrozophora parvifolia, Klotzsch ex Schweinf. Pl. quaed. 
Nilot. p. 10 (1862). Perennis, prostrata; folia radicalia_mox 
evanida basi insigniter 2-glandulosa, pilis stellatis sessilibus 
parce obtecta; petala lutea; stigmata aurantica ; capsula matura 
cinereo-nigrescens, haud tinctoria.—Croton plicatum, Willd. Sp. 
Pl. iy. 1, p. 538 (1805), quoad spec. Ind. cit. sed syn. omn. ex- 
clud.; Klein ex Schweinf. Pl. quaed. Nilot. p. 10 (1862): nec 
Vahl. Chrozophora plicata y. prostrata, Mill.-arg. in DC. Prodr. 
xv. 2, p. 747 partim (1866) quoad syn. Klein et Klotzsch tantum. 
Chrozophora plicata 2, Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. v. p. 410 (1887). _ 
This species, like the preceding, to which it is nearly allied, is 
confined to Peninsular India, where it is widely spread from 
Scinde, the Panjab, and the Upper Gangetic Plain southward to 
Coromandel, but while present in Scinde, whence C . prostrata has 
not so far been reported, it has never been gathered in the Deccan 
or in any part of Central India except Bundelkhand. A procum- 
bent plant like the preceding species, it has in almost every 1n- 
stance been gathered as a woody plant of more than one season's 
In thei lent monograph of the genu Chrozophora, Pax 
n their excellent monograp ge re cae 
possibility of the occurrence within it of natural hybrids. The 
might be regarded as a natural cross between C. Rottleri and C. 
prostrata, in which the glands at the base of leaf beneath and the 
