Croton EUPHOUBIACE.^^: 283 



twice. Capsule obovoid-giobose, tuberculate, scaly, scurfy, 7-9 mm. 1. 

 Seed dark brown, 6 mm. 1. 



Wright (loc. cit.) considers that " the bark is the same as the cascarilla 

 and eleutheria of the shops." 



10. C. humilis L. Syst. ed. 10, 1276 (1759), Amcen. v. 410, 383, 

 it Sp. PL ed.- 2, 1427; leaves 1-5-5 -5 cm. 1., ovate to ovate- 

 lajiceolate, more or less acuminate, base more or less cordate or 

 rounded, margin with distant minute stalked glands, upper side 

 somewhat puberulous, stellate-haired, or glabrescent, beneath 

 white or yellowish-grey with stellate tomentum, without distinctly 

 basal glands ; stipules minute, with glandular lobes, or con- 

 spicuous, split up into linear glandular lobes.— (S'w. Obs. Bot. 363 ; 

 Geisel. op. cit. 15 ; Griseh. op. cit. 41 (excl. var.) ; Muell. Arg. 

 torn. cit. 670 ; Urh. Symb. Ant. iv. 343. C, fruticulosum minus Ac 

 Broione Hist. Jam. 347. C. salvifolium Mill. Diet. ed. 8 (1768). 

 C. albidus Muell. Arg. torn. cit. 671 (1866). T^'pe in Herb. Linn, 

 from Browne. 



Pepper Rod. 



Sloane Herb. ii. 90* ! Hoiistoun ! Lane in Herb. Sloane clxii. 12G ! 

 Browne ! Wright ! Broughton ! Shakspear ! Sioartz ! Bancroft ! Macfadycn ! 

 pastures near the sea, Manchester, Purdie ! Kingston, Prior ! March I 

 Liguanea plain, J. P. 1364, Morris ! Kingston, Hitchcock ; also Clute ! 

 Bethlehem, St. Elizabeth, T. Harris ! near Alligator Pond, 500 ft. ; Long 

 Mt., 30 ft. ; Yardley Chase, 1600 ft. ; Portland Point and Rocky Point ; 

 Harris ! near Bull Bay, Harris d Britlon ! PI. Jam. 6266. 8284, 9585, 9676, 

 10,183, 10,788. — Florida, Bahamas, Hispaniola, Porto Rico, St. Thomas, 

 ^Mexico, Yucatan. 



Shrub 1-5 ft. high, aromatic. Young twigs, inflorescence, calyx whitish 

 or yellowish-grey with stellate tomentum. Leaves pinnate-nerved, with 

 one or two nerves on each side from the base ; petiole usually half as long 

 as the leaf. Racemes slender, 3-14 cm. 1. Bracts small, ovate, acuminate, 

 more or less cut into gland-bearing segments. Pedicels : male 2-4 mm. 1., 

 female 1-2 mm. 1. Flowers white. Male floivcrs : Calyx 2-2-7 mm. 1.; 

 segments elliptical. Petals about as long as calyx, elliptical, narrowed to 

 base, pubescent at apex and on margin of lower half. Disk represented 

 by fleshy glands opposite the sepals. Stamens indefinite in number, over 

 twenty. Female floiccrs : Calyx 4 mm. 1., increasing in fruit; segments 

 usually ciliate with stalked glands, oblong, somewhat broader near apex. 

 Petals thread-like, gland-tipped, nearly 2 nun. 1. Disk ring-like. Ovary 

 with stellate hairs. Styles 4-parted, thread-like, hairy, involute at apex. 

 Capsule 6-6 mm. 1., glabrate, globular-3-lobed. Seeds usually with slight 

 diagonal ridges on back, 3-4 mm. 1. 



11. C. eorylifolius Lam. Encyc. ii. 205 (1786); one female 

 flower and two or three male flowers in the axil of each lower 

 bract; leaves varying much in size, 3-13 cm. 1., broadly ovate, 

 or elliptical to oblong-elliptical or oblong, base subcordate or 

 obtuse, margin irx-egularly serrate-dentate, sometimes with cylin- 

 drical glands, teeth glandular, with two glands at apex of petiole 

 above, youngest leaves covered with stellate hairs, older sparsely 

 covered or glabrescent ; stipules linear-acuminate, 5-6 mm, 1., 



