128: CVIII. EUPHORBIACEÆ®. [ Croton, — 
aster on the side branches. Racemes 3 to 6 in. long, the flow em ; 
u pper ones aie or entirely males. Pedicels varying from 1 to 3 in 
hui. Pet ements broad, obtuse, rather above 1 line long, imbricate in kel 
Petals scarcely lon er, ciliate-hairy. Stamens 20 to 30 or even 
, on a hairy €—— e, the filaments glabrous. Bsyles divided to. - 
the res into 2 lon gene entire or very shortly 2-lobed brago 
g.5 
rici drami not furrowed, hirsute with stellate hairs, fully 3 li 
diam 
Australia. Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown; Victoria ana Vite. 
maurice rivers and Sea-range, F. Mueller ; Port Darwin, Schultz, n. 48, 563, 68 
Var. I prb Baill. Adans. vi. Pea Leaves more ovate and often ai Ue 
ease 5-nerv Flowers rather sm : 
; Pedir Port anis Schultz, n 
Gne eensland. Cape k, M Gillivr vray; pe Denison, Fitzalan ; Edgecombe Bay, 
Dallachy ; Gilbert edi poet : 
25. ALEURITES, Forst. 
glands. Stamens pre on a central Cea or disk without any : 
rudimentary ovary; anthers erect in the bud, the cells e and. 
esh h 
globular, with a distinct outer somewhat cartilaginous coating, the. 
inner coating bony; albumen oleaginous ; cotyledons broad, fat, v wi 
a short narrow radicle.— Trees with a stellate t ontan ; 
alternate, petiolate, large, entire or lobed. Flowers in WS a quur Í 
the wae MA few, terminating the main branches | 
A genu w species, natives of tropical Asia and the — islands. TM um 
Poet acre vus is also widely spread over die. Archipelag 
1l. A. moluccana, Willd. ; Muell. Arg. in DO. Prod. xv. ii. 728. A. 
tree attaining sometimes a considerable size ize, the young foliage densely 
full-grown. - 
nate, rarely narrow-lanceo ate, entire undulate-crenate or 3-, 5i o 
7- lobed, — nearly 1 ft. long and. broad but in herbaria sually: 
4 to 6 in., 3-, 5- or 7-nerved, the primary veins pinnate with transverse : 
«Spade veins as sis Croton rs numerous, in broad 
rminal much-branched panicles, the pedicels short. Calyx tomentose 
“aia usually in 3 segments, about 14 lines long. = Petals obovate 
openi 3 lines long. Stamens 15 to 20, on a convex hairy rec eceptacle 
