Croton KUPHORBIACE.E 281 



foliis ovatis oppositis vel ternatis, spicis terminalibus Broicnc 

 ■ Hist. Jam. 347. C. glabelluiii L. Syst. ed. 10, 1275 (1759). C. 

 fruticosum Mill. Gard. Did. ed. 8 (1768). C. pallens ^S^ip. Prodr. 

 100 (1788). C. glanduliferus Vahl in Geisel. Grot. Monog. 37 

 (1807). Mali folio arbor, artemisiie odore flore pentapetalo 

 spicato Sloane Gat. 139 & Hist. ii. 30, t. 174, /. 1. Type 

 specimen from Browne in Herb. Linn, named by Linnseus. 



Basket Hoop. 



Between Town savanna and Two Mile Wood, Sloane Herb. v. Ill ! 

 Houstoun ! Browne ! lulls about Bull Bay, WrigJit ! Broughton ! Shok- 

 spear 1 Bertero ; near St. Ann's Bay, McNab ! also Purdie ! March ! 

 Wilson ! Lucea, Hitchcock ; Liguanea plain, Campbell ! Great Goat Is. ; 

 Pedro Blufi ; Peckham, Clarendon, 2500-2800 ft. ; Albion Mt., St. Thomas ; 

 Harris ! near Bull Bay, Harris cO Britton ! Fl. Jam. 6247, 9302, 9727, 

 10,790, 10,863, 10,966, 11,012, 12,197.— Bahamas, Cuba, Cayman Is., 

 Hispaniola, Porto Rico. 



Shrub 2-12 ft. high, or tree to 40 ft., aromatic. Young parts of tivigs 

 and racemes, flowers sometimes more or less stellate-puberulous, some- 

 times glabrate or glabrous. Leaves pellucid-dotted, nerves and veins more 

 or less indistinct, nerves pinnate and sometimes with two on each side at 

 base; petiole 1-3 cm. 1. Racemes 3-8 cm. 1. Flowers white or greenish- 

 white. Pedicels, male to 2*5 mm. 1., female 2-5-5 mm. L, of fruit 5-8 

 mm. 1. Male flowers : Calyx about 2 mm. 1., 5-parted, densely puberulous 

 on the margins, also more or less on both surfaces ; segments oblong- 

 elliptical, base and margins sometimes glandular. Petals like the sepals, 

 and as long. Stamens 11-12. Female flowers: Calyx 5-6-5 mm. 1., 

 5-parted, puberulous. Ovary sparingly pubescent with stellate hairs. 

 Styles short, about 1 mm. 1., deeply 4-parted. Capsule oblong-ellipsoidal, 

 glabrate, 10-12 mm. 1. 



The descriptions in English by Sloane of this species and C. glabelliis 

 in the "History" have been exchanged. 



8. C. laupinus Sw. Prodr. 100 (1788) k FI. Ind. Dec. 1191 : 

 leaves 7-18 cm. ]., broadly elliptical to oblong-elliptical, apex 

 rounded, obtuse or acute, base rounded to wedge-shaped, entire, 

 on both sides with stellate hairs, often glabrate, without glands 

 at base. — Geisel. op. cit. 31 ; Griseb. op. cit. 39. C. laurifolius 

 Muell. in DC. Prodr. xv. pt. 2, 586 (1866). Type from Swartz in 

 Herb. Stockholm, and a specimen from him in Herb. Mus. Brit. 



Swartz I Union Hill, Moneague, Prior ! near Troy, 2000-2200 ft. ; 

 Albion Pen, St. Ann, 2000 ft. ; Harris ! Fl. Jam. 8693, 9410, 12,000, 12,003. 



A high shriib with weak straggling branches, or a slender tree, 20-25 ft. 

 high; "fresh juice of branches blood-red" (Harris). Stellate hairs on 

 young branches, leaves and i^'^tioles, inflorescence, calyx, ovary, capsule. 

 Leaves 7-18 cm. 1., broadly elliptical to oblong-elliptical, apex rounded, 

 obtuse, or acute, base rounded to wedge-shaped, entire, without glands at 

 base, papery ; nerves pinnate ; petiole 1-6 cm. 1. liaccmes axillary, usually 

 longer than the leaves, sometimes much longer, 1-3 dm., sometimes with 

 male flowers only. Bracts minute. Male flowers : Calyx about 2 mm. 1. ; 

 segments triangular, about 1-5 mm. 1. Petals obianceolate, 2-3 mm. 1., 

 apex doubled outwards, pubescent on the margin and with dense short 

 hairs at apex. Stamens 5-10, filaments glabrous. Female flowers : Pedi- 

 cels thick, about 2 mm. br., about 3 mm. 1. Calyx 4 mm. 1. ; segments 

 lanceolate, 3 mm. 1. Petals minute, linear, gland-tipped, hairy. Ovary 



