Croton.'] oxxxv. BUPHORBIACE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) 387 



leaves and inflorescence lepidote, leaves oblong elliptic-oblong or -ovate or 

 -lanceolate acute more or less repand-toothed or serrate penninerved old quite 

 glabrous, base acute or obtuse, racemes elongate, sepals lepidote, stamens 

 10-12 woolly below, styles 2-partite slender, capsules globose ^ in. diam. 

 lepidote. Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 573; Brand. For. Fl. 440; 

 Kurz For. Fl. ii. 373; Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 231 ; Beddome Forester's 

 Man. 204; Thwaites Enum. 276. E. elseocarpifolius & Isevigatus, Wall. 

 Cat. 7734, 7735. C. Boragatch, Eoxb. mss. C. Dudia, Herb. Ham. C. 

 Jouffra, Miguel Plant. Hohenack., No. 832. Wall. Cat. 7739 (in part). 



BENGAL, SILHET, BEHAB, CENTRAL INDIA, the DECCAN PENINSULA, MAB- 

 TABAN and BUBHA. CEYLON ; in hot dry places. 



A small deciduous tree ; branches rather stout. Leaves 6-12 in., rather coria- 

 ceous, sometimes 4 in. broad, very pale green when dry ; nerves 12-16 pairs, slender ; 

 petiole very variable, |-2 in., rather slender, Racemes often fascicled, erect; 

 pedicels long or short. Sepals of male broadly oblong ; petals as long as the sepals, 

 woolly; disk-glands 5, rounded; stamens 12, glabrous. Sepals of fern, oblong; 

 petals small, linear, ciliate; disk depressed. Ovary oblong, 3-gonous, lepidote. 

 Capsule % in. diam., globosely 3-lobed, scaberulously lepidote, top depressed. C. 

 Wallichianus, which resembles this, differs in not being lepidote. 



6. C. Joufra, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 685; inflorescence lepidote, leaves 

 elliptic- or linear- or obovate-lanceolate acuminate quite entire or remotely 

 repand-serrate penninerved old quite glabrous, base very acute, racemes 

 elongate, sepals stellately lepidote, stamens 12 filaments villous, styles 2- 

 partite slender, capsules 1-1| in. ovoid lepidote. Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. 

 xv. ii. 519 ; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 373. C. persimilis, Muell. I. c. 619 (WallicK's, 

 plant only). C. oblong if olius Ham. in Wall. Cat. 7718 D. 



SILHET, Roxburgh-, at Terrya Ghat, J. D. H. 8f T. T., Clarice. SEEBSAGUB, 

 Clarke. PEGU and MABTABAN, Kurz. UPPER BUEMA, near the Silver Mines 

 Griffith. 



A shrub very similar to C. oblongifolius, but the leaves are shorter petioled, 

 narrower, more acuminate and less serrate or toothed, and the capsule is very 

 different. I have seen only Silhet and Clarke's and Griffith's Burmese specimens ; 

 the capsules in the latter are terete, very obscurely 3-lobed, and the seeds oblong, 

 as described by Kurz. Mueller's C. persimilis, a. genulna, is a mixture of this with 

 C. oblongifolius from Khasia, Assam, and Ceylon. His ft. glabrata, from Rawak, is 

 probably something very different. 



7. C. robustus, Kurz For. FL ii. 372 ; leaves coriaceous elliptic or 

 <el liptic-pblong obtuse or subacute sparsely lepidote beneath penninerved, 

 fern, spikes robust and subsessile flowers lepidote, styles slender 2-fid. 

 roton, Wall. Cat. 7737. ? C. oblongifolius, Wall. Cat. 7736. 



PEGU to TENASSEKIM, Kurz. Moolmayin, Wallicli. 



A small tree ; branchlets very robust, rusty-scaly. Leaves 1^-8 in., dull greenish 

 grey or brown when dry, pale but not shining beneath ; nerves very slender ; petiole 

 -2 in., robust. Male fl. much larger than in C. argyratus ; petals very small, 

 linear, ciliate. Sepals of fern. fl. broadly ovate, obtuse ; disk obscure. Ovary 

 coppery-lepidote. Capsule ovoid -globose, 3-coccous, 6-grooved, size of a large pea, 

 obscurely scaly and tubercled. The specimens are very indifferent, and the description 

 is chiefly from Kurz. I take Wallich's 7736, from Tavoy, to be a male specimen of 

 this with very slender spikes and pedicelled flowers ; it differs from C. oblongifolius 

 in the entire obtuse leaves. 



** Inflorescence stellately tomentose or glabrous (not lepidote except 

 sparsely in C. lavifolius and G-riffithii). 



