386 cxxxv. EUPHORBIACE.E. (J. D. Hooker. ) [Croton. 



broadly obtusely 3-gonous, with abroad convex nearly smooth polished back. I^have 

 seen no Tenasserim specimens. 



2. C. reticulatus, Heyne in Wall. Cat. 7724 B in part ; branchlets 

 leaves beneath and inflorescence silvery lepidote, leaves ovate or elli ptic- 

 lanceolate acuminate quite entire shortly 3- nerved at the base, racemes few- 

 fid., sepals of fern, linear-oblong accrescent, stamens 15-18, ovary stellately 

 lepidote, style-arms divided, capsule \ in. long broadly oblong. Muell. Arg. 

 in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 580. C. hypoleucus, Dalz. in Hook. Kew Journ. iii. 

 (1851) 123; Dalz. 8f Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 231 ; Thwaites JEnum. 276. C. zey- 

 lanicus, Muell. Arg. in Linncea xxxiv. 107, and in DG. I. c. 581. 



DECCAN PENINSULA, from the Concan southwards, Heyne, &c. CEYLON ; 

 Central Province, Thwaites. 



A shrub; branches slender, terete. Leaves opposite and alternate, 4-10 in.,, 

 smooth and glabrous above, base acute or rounded ; petiole ^-1^ in., rusty lepidote. 

 Racemes shorter than the leaves. Sepals of male oblong, margins woolly, twice as 

 large as the woolly oblong petals. Stamens glabrous except at the villous base. 

 Sepals of fern, sometimes % in. long in fruit. Ovary globose; scales stellate, red- 

 brown ; styles very variable, usually 2-partite with long slender unequally 2-fid arms, 

 in Wallich's specimen very large and flabellately multipartite from a cuneate base. 

 Capsule stellately lepidote. I find no character whereby to separate Mueller's 

 C. zeylanicus ; the fern, sepals enlarge in all the forms, and though largest in the 

 Ceylon specimen are not otherwise different; the styles are too variable to found a 

 character upon, and I find no difference in the capsule. 



3. C. malabaricus, Beddome Icones, t. 171, and Foresters Man. 

 204 ; branchlets leaves beneath and inflorescence silvery lepidote, leaves 

 ovate or rhombic-ovate acuminate quite entire sub-3-plinefved sparsely 

 stellately lepidote above, racemes few-fld., sepals of fern, ovate-oblong vil- 

 lous at the base within, stamens 10-12 villous below with long silky hairs,, 

 ovary stellately lepidote, style-arms long slender, tips 2-lobed, capsule 

 obovoid lepidote. 



MALABAR ; common in western forests, ascending to 4000 ft., Beddome. 



A tree, 20-30 ft. Leaves 2-6 in. long ; petiole 1-2 in. Racemes solitary or clus- 

 tered, 12 in. Petals of male woolly, much smaller than the sepals; of fern. 0. 

 Capsule about 1 in. long. Closely allied to C. reticulatus, but the leaves are much 

 broader, female calyx less deeply divided and lobes much shorter"; male calyx with 

 long silky hairs at the base, as also have the filaments and petals. 



4. C. scabiosus, Beddome FL Sylvat. t. 283; branchlets leaves on 

 both surfaces and inflorescence clothed with subsilvery lepidote scales, 

 leaves ovate- or orbicular-cordate obtuse or acute crenate-serrate 3-5-pli- 

 nerved at the base, raceme short stout, stamens 10-12 quite glabrous, ovary 

 densely lepidote, styles 2-partite arms very long and slender, capsule sub- 

 globose 3-lobed. 



TBAVANCORE ; on the Nullay Mallay Hills, Kurnoul, alt. 2-3000 ft., Beddome. 



A small tree; branches brown when dry; branchlets stout, much shrunk when 

 dry, greenish or silvery lepidote as are the leaves. Leaves 2-4| by 1^-3 in., 

 coriaceous, alike on both surfaces, nerves 1 or 2 pair above the basal ; petiole rather 

 shorter than the blade, stout. Racemes 1-4 in. ; rachis and pedicels very stout. 

 Sepals of male short ; petals narrowly spathulate, deeply fringed. Ovary globose .. 

 Capsule | in. long, rather longer than broad. 



ff Leaves glabrous when old. 



5. C. oblongifolius, Roxb. FL Ind. iii. 685; shoots and young 



