463 
/ Antidesma pea riaes Craib, sp. A, Moritzii, Muell.-Arg., 
peraffinis sed stipulis omnibus onda. foliis minoribus, spicis ¢ 
densis, calyce laments antheris ovariique rudimento longioribus, 
bracteis Q minoribus, calyce breviore, ovario minore magis globoso 
haud tam exserto differt 
Suffrutec 3-3°5 m. alias (ex Kerr); ramuli primo ferrugineo- 
tomentelli, mox glabri vel subglabri, cortice rubro-brunneo parce 
lenticellato obtecti, olia plerumque oblonga vel oblongo- 
oblanceolata, apice acuminata, acuta, rarissime obtusa, basi cuneata, 
3-12°2 cm. lo onga, 1—2°9 em. lata, chartacea, utringue costa nervisque 
conspicuis ; petioli 2-4 mm. longi, indumento ramulorum. zeae 
ag pore ray ad 10 cm. longae, densae, pedunculo circiter 
1 cm ultae, pedunculo ut in rachi tomentello. alyx 
4lobatus, ecliee 0°5 mm, altus, extra pubescens. Discus glaber ; 
ovarii rudimentum columnare, parcissime pubescens. Stamina 4, 
ee ere 1°5 mm. longis glabris. Racemi ° simplices, ad 
cm. longi, pedunculo communi ipa 1 em. longo suffulti; 
ad 0°75 mm, longus, 4-lobatus, atitieros pubescens. Discus cupu- 
laris, subglaber. Ovarium anguste ii pesidesiae 0°75 mm. altum, 
glabrum. 
ag ee Se in deciduous jungle on Doi Sootep, 720-750 m., Kerr, 
6765, 6 
In dicesbin the above species, which is very “closely allied to 
A, Moritzii, I “have taken into consideration 4, Moritzii only as 
originally described by Mueller, 
Jatropha gossypifolia, Linn.—F’.B.I., v. p. 383. 
hiengmai, 300 m., Kerr, 712—« often abundant on waste 
C 
ground, 
Distr, Tropic 
Kerr’s plant aan to the variety alegant Muell.-Arg.—Pax, 
Engl. Pflanzenr., poets -Jatroph., p. Pax see 2 50 refers 
Zimmermann’s 27 and 145 to ./. panduri rifolia sui , Andr., latifolia, 
Pax, but it would éeobast be equally right to follow Williams and 
refer them to J. hastata, Jacq. 
Croton Cumingii, Muell.-Arg. 
Lem Ton aa ai Murton, 122; Bangkok Palace Gardens, culti- 
vated, Murt 
Distr. Philippines, } Malay Peninsula. 
Croton Hutchinsonianus, Hosseu 
Wang Djao, Hosseus, 163 lek Kew! Hoss,! et Copenhagen!); 
Phre, 120-180 m., Luang Vanpruk, 140. 
Croton laevifolius, Blume, var.? 
Chiengmai, Doi Sootep, in evergreen eae 660 m., Kerr, 1074, 
There is no type of this species in Herb. Kew. The Sans plant 
differs from the Khasia specimens, referred here by Mueller, in 
the indumentum which, though of a similar nature, is more per- 
sistent and more pronounced on the inflorescence, 
