Croton 



EUPHOEBIACE^ 



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Monog. 8. C. Cascarilla var. linearis Griseh. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 38. 

 Ricino affinis odorifera fruticosa major &c. Shane Cat. 44 & Hist, 

 i. 133, t. 86,/. 1. Clutia Cascarilla L. Sijst. ed. 10, 1299 (1759) 

 & Amcen. v. 411, 383 (non Sp. Fl.) k Herh. (Fig. 91.) 



Wild Rosemary or Spanish Rosemary. 



Near Passage Fort; Red Hills; SZoane Herb. ii. 91 ! Moustminl Lane 

 in Herb. Sloane clxii, 127 ! Wright 1 Broughton ! vo^i Rohr ! Macfadyen ! 

 McNab ! Liguanea plain ; near Port Antonio ; Purdie ! Wilson ! Kingston ; 

 " near Mr. Fyfe's coffee region of Blue Mts."; Priori March\ rocky sea- 

 coast, Low Layton, Metcalfe I near Port Antonio, Millspaugh ; J. P. 700, 

 Jenmanl Hope, J. P. 1005, Hart I Watson Hill, Fawccttl near Kingston, 

 Campbclll near Alligator Pond, 500 ft.; Grove, near Hope, 700 ft.; near 

 Falmouth; Great Goat Is.; Healthshire Hills; Long Mountain, 30 ft.; 



Fig. 91. — Croton linearis Jacq. 



A, Portion of branch with male 



inflorescence x 3. 



B, Male flower X 7. 



C, Female flower x 10. 



D, Coccus with seed x 3. 



E, Seed X 4. 



Cane R. valley, 350 ft. ; Pedro Bluff ; Harris ! Fl. Jam. 5724, 6323, 6557, 

 7285, 9838, 9527, 9580, 9623, 9733.— Florida, Bahamas, Cayman Is., Cuba, 

 Hispaniola. 



Shrub 3-9 ft. high, much branched, aromatic ; young twigs, inflorescence 

 and calyx tomentellous with yellow (or whitish) flat stellate hairs ; dioecious. 

 Leaves 5"5-2'2 cm. 1., 1*5 mm.-l-5 cm. br., linear-oblong, usually obtuse 

 at both ends, margin entire, upper surface glabrous, beneath covered 

 densely with yellowish tomentum of stellate hairs, usually with two or 

 three cylindrical glands at apex of petiole (often others minute) on upper 

 surface, somewhat leathery ; nerves pinnate, usually slightly prominent 

 but indistinct on upper surface, not obvious beneath ; petiole 2-6 mm. 1. 

 Racemes usually somewhat longer than the leaf. Flowers shortly stalked 

 or subsessile,. female usually sessile. Male floiucrs : Calyx 1'5 mm. 1. 



