Croton EUPHORBIACE^ 279 



4. C. flavens L. Syst. ed. 10, 1276 (1759) & Amoen. v. 410, 

 383 ; leaves 2-10 cm. 1., ovate-lanceolate to ovate, tapering to an 

 acute mucronate apex, base cordate or obtuse, on both sides 

 tomentellous with stellate hairs to sparingly stellate-hairy or 

 even glabrous, entire or rarely serrate, with several minute 

 glands often at apex of petiole or base of midrib above, and 

 one cylindrical gland at each side of base of midrib beneath. — 

 Geisel. op. cit. 19; Griseh. op. cit. 38; Muell. Arg. torn. cit. 612. 

 C. balsamifer Jacq. Sel. Stirp. Amer. 255, t. 162, /. 3 (1763) & 

 Rort. Vindob. ni. 26, t. 46; L. Mant. 125; Geisel. op. cit. 11; 

 Griseh. loc. cit. C. flocculosus Geisel. op. cit. 14 (1807) ; Griseh. 

 Joe. cit. C. fruticulosum et villosum &c. Browne Hist. Jam. 347. 

 Type, Browne's specimen, in Herb. Linn. 



Yellow Balsam. 



Sloane Herb. v. 108 ! Houstoun ! Lane in Herb. Sloane clxii. 127 ! 

 Browne ! Wright ! near Bull Bay, Broughton ! McNab ! Liguanea plain, 

 Purdiel March \ Rock Fort, Campbell \ Long Mt., 30-200 ft.; Harris \ 

 Fl. Jam. 6254, 8926, 9586.— West Indies, Yucatan. 



Shrub 2-10 ft. high, aromatic. Leaves : nerves pinnate ; petiole less 

 than half as long as the limb. Flowers pale yellow or white, shortly pedi- 

 celled (1-3 mm. 1.). Male flowers : Calyx stellate-tomentellous outside, 

 about 2 mm. 1. ; segments narrowly ovate. Petals oblanceolate, a little 

 longer than the calyx, hairy at lower margin. Stamens 12-16. Female 

 flowers : Cahjx like the male, but more pointed. Petals minute, thread- 

 like, gland-like at apex. Ovary tomentellous with yellow stellate hair. 

 Styles 2-clefb. Capsule subglobular, about 5 mm. 1. Seeds ellipsoidal, 

 3-3"5 mm. 1., dark grey. 



5. C. mieans Sw. Fl. Ind. Occ. 1185 (1800) (excl. syn.) ; 

 leaves 3-5 cm. 1./ ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, base obtuse or 

 slightly cordate, upper surface with a few hairs on the nerves, 

 also sometimes a few stellate scale-like hairs often bearing in the 

 centre a long hair, beneath densely tomentose, with short white 

 stellate hairs and scales, without glands at base ; stipules awl- 

 shaped, 2-3 mm. 1. ; calyx of female tiowers densely scaly, 

 segments ovate-triangular, with edges near base slightly folded 

 back outwards. — Muell. Arg. torn. cit. 554 (with vars.) & in Fl. 

 Bras, xi.pt. 2, 121. C nervosus var. villosus Klotzsch in Hoolc. 

 Loud. Journ. Bat. ii. 50 (1843). C. niveus Griseh. op. cit. 40 

 (1859) (non Jacq.). 



Swartz. — Northern tropical S. America. A specimen from Jamaica, 

 without collector's name, in Herb. Edinb. is named by Grisebach 

 C. niveus. 



Shrub with twigs, petioles, stipules, and young leaves covered with long 

 soft spreading yellowish-brown hairs. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 base obtuse or slightly cordate, nerves pinnate, without glands at base, 

 with a few hairs on the nerves on the upper surface, also sometimes a few 

 scattered stellate scale-like hairs often bearing in the centre a long hair, 

 beneath densely tomentose with short white hairs and scales, 3-5 cm. 1. ; 

 petiole 3-8 mm, 1. ; stipules awl-shaped, 2-3 mm. 1. Racemes with 1-3 

 female flowers at base succeeded by several male flowers above. Pedicels 



