Aleurites.'] cxxxv. EUPHOKBIACE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) 385 



anthers erect, ovary 2-celled hispid. Muell, Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 723 ; 

 Eurz For. Fl. 377 ; Bedd. Sylv. Madr. t. 276 ; Benth. Fl HongJc. vi. 128. 

 A. triloba, Forst. Char. Gen. 112, t. 56; Lamk. III. t. 791 ; Willd.,1. c. ; 

 Roxb. FL Ind. iii. 629; Grah. Cat. Bomb. PL 181; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. 

 FL Suppl. 76; Miquel FL Ind. Bat. i. ii. 385; Wall. Cat. 7850. A. 

 ambinux, Pers. Syn. 587 ; A. Juss. Tent. Euphorb. t. 12. A. cordifolia, 

 Steud. Nomenc. 49. Camirium cordifolium, Gcertn. Fruct. ii. 195. Jatropha 

 moluccana, Linn. Sp. PL 1006. Camirium, Rumph. Amb. ii. 180, t. 58. 



Occurs in various parts of INDIA, especially the Malayan Peninsula, Griffith 

 (Kew Distrib. 4795), Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1384). Wild in the Wynaad, but 

 probably escaped from cultivation, Beddome. DISTEIB. Native of the Malay ? and 

 Pacific Islands. 



An evergreen tree-, 40-60 ft. Leaves crowded at the ends of the branches, 4- 

 12 in. long; petiole 2-2^ in., pubescent. Cymes tomentose j flowers white, shortly 

 pedicelled. Calyx usually splitting into three lobes or segments, -^ in. long. Petals 

 in. Stamens 15-20, on hairy receptacle, filaments hairy, short. Fruit 2-2% in. diam., 

 subglobose, fleshy, smooth, olive-coloured, containing 1 or 2 large, hard seeds with a 

 farrowed testa. 



34. CROTON, Linn. 



Trees or shrubs, rarely herbs. Leaves alternate, rarely opposite or 

 whorled, 2-glandular at the base. Flowers solitary or clustered on the 

 rachis of a terminal raceme with small bracts, monoecious, rarely dioecious, 

 MALE FL. Calyx '5-(4-6-)partite, imbricate or subvalvate. Petals as many 

 as anc equalling or shorter than the sepals. Disk-glands as many, opposite 

 the sepals. Stamens indefinite, inserted on a hairy receptacle, filaments 

 free in flexed in bud then erect ; anthers adnate, cells parallel. Pistillode 0. 

 FEM FL. Sepals usually more ovate than in male, rarely accrescent in fruit. 

 Petals smaller or 0. Disk annular or of glands. Ovary 3-(2-4-)celled ; 

 styles usually long and slender, 2-4-cleft ; ovules 1 in each cell. Capsule 

 subequally 6-valved or of 3 deciduous 2-valved cocci. Seeds smooth, caruncle 

 small, testa crustaceons, albumen copious ; cotyledons broad. Species 

 uncertain (500 described), in all hot countries. 



The Indian species are all referable to Mueller's section Eucroton, described as 

 having the sepals equal (though often unequal in both sexes), the receptacle of the 

 male fl. villous, and the petals distinct in the male fl. but minute or wanting in the 

 female. 



A. Ovary lepidote or stellately tomentose. 



* Inflorescence lepidote. (See also C. Icemfolius and Griffithii.) 



t Leaves densely lepidote beneath, or on both surfaces. 



1. C. argryratus, Blume Bijd. 602 ; leaves elliptic- or ovate-lanceolate 

 acuminate silvery or rufous-lepidote beneath penninerved, racemes long 

 lepidote, stamens 10-12, ovary lepidote, styles slender 2-partite, capsule 

 globose rusty-pubescent. Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 526; Miquel 

 FL Ind. Bat. i. ii. 380 ; Kurz For. FL ii. 372 ; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 

 359. C. bicolor, Roxb. FL Ind. iii. 680. 



MAETABAN to TENASSEEIM, Kurz. PEEAK, ScortecUni, King's Collector. 

 MALACCA, Griffith, Maingay. PENANG, Curtis. DISTEIB. Sumatra, Java, Borneo. 



An evergreen tree ; branchlets lepidote. Leaves 4-7 in., thinly coriaceous, base 

 minutel y cordate ; petiole -\-\\ in. Racemes 4-6 in. ; male fl. shortly pedicelled ; 

 fern, larger, stouter pedicelled. Sepals of fern, linear-oblong, lepidote, glabrous 

 within. Petals and stamens villous. Capsule % in. diam., hardly lobed. Seed 



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