388 cxxxv. EUPHORBIACE^:. (J. D. Hooker.) [Croton. 



f Leaves 3-5-plinerved at the base, more or less stellately pubescent or 

 tomentose on both surfaces. 



8. C. aromaticus, Linn. Sp. PI. 1005 ; branches and leaves scaberu- 

 lous or tomentose with stellate hairs, leaves long-petioled ovate- or orbicular- 

 cordate acute or acuminate denticulate 3-plinerved, racemes elongate softly 

 tomentose. stamens about 20, ovary stellately hispid, styles short 2-5-par- 

 tite, capsule 3- in. subglobose stellately scabrid. Valil Symb. ii. 98 ; Geisel 

 Monogr. Croton. 21 ; Wall. Oat. 7773 B, C ; Beddome Forester's Man. 204. 

 C. aromaticus & lacciferus, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1, 588. C. 

 lacciferus, Linn. 1. c. ; Wight Ic. t. 1915; Gcertn. Fruct. ii. t. 107. C. 

 tiliasfolius, ft. aromatica, Lamk. Encycl. ii. 206. Aleurites laccifera, Willd. 

 Sp. PL iv. b90.Burm. Thes. Zeyl. 201, t. 91. 



The DECCAN PENINSULA ; from the Concan southwards. CEYLON, common. 



An aromatic shrub or small tree, usually grey when dry. Leaves 2-4 by 1-3 in., 

 usually scabrid above and softer pubescent beneath ; nervjes 2-6 pair above the basal j 

 glands subsessile; petiole ^-1 in., stout, pubescent. Racemes 4-6 in. Male fl. with 

 woolly petals as long as the sepals ; stamens short ; receptacle densely villous ; disk- 

 glands small. Fern. fl. remote, stoutly pedicelled, thickly tomentose ; sepals short, 

 broad ; disk hairy ; petals minute, filiform, ciliate. Capsule obscurely lobed. Seeds 

 broadly oblong, dorsally rugose, opaque. Near C. caudatus, but the leaves are less 

 toothed, the racemes more woolly, the styles much shorter, usually many-lobed and 

 hardly exserted, and the capsule much smaller. I find no difference between C. lacci- 

 ferus and aromaticus, nor does Beddome, who would include under this C. caudatus, 

 Moonii and nigro-viridis. Thwaites distinguishes aromaticus from lacciferus by 

 the longer weaker branches, less hairy leaves often more openly cordate, and the 

 larger longer capsules with scattered stellate hairs. C. Moonii appears to differ in 

 the penninerved leaves. 



9. C. caudatus, Geisel Croton. Monogr. 73 ; branches and racemes 

 scurfily stellately hairy, leaves from ovate- to orbicular-cordate acute or 

 .acuminate irregularly toothed scaberulous above scabrid or softly pubescent 

 with stellate hairs beneath 3-5-plinerved, racemes very long slender, 

 stamauR 18-30 filaments silkily hairy below, ovary stellately woolly, styles 

 2-partite arms very long slender hairy below, capsule large globose or 

 broadly oblong terete woody. Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 599; 

 (excl. y.) ; Kurt, For. Fl. ii. 375; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 359. C. denticu- 

 latus, Blume Bijd. ii. 603. C. drupaceus, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 683 ; Wall. 

 Cat. 7720 A, C, 7721. Tiglium hispidum, Klotzsch. Wall. Cat. 7726, 

 ? 7769, 7826 E. 



EASTERN HIMALAYA; Sikkim, J. D. H., and Bhotan, Griffith. ASSAM, 

 BENGAL and SILHET to the DECCAN and MALACCA. CEYLON ; north part of the 

 island. DISTRIB. Java, Philippines. 



A more or less scandent shrub, branches stout or slender, scurfily scabrid. 

 Leaves very variable, smaller 1-3 in. ovate-cordate, larger 4-7 in. orbicular-cordate, 

 margin denticulate or rather coarsely toothed, often with a gland at the sinus, or the 

 teeth glandular, upper surface smooth or scaberulous, lower scabrid or tomentose, 

 nerves 2-3 pair above the basal, pubescent above ; glands minute (long-pedicelled 

 in some Ceylon specimens) ; petiole 1-2 in., scabrid. Racemes solitary, terminal, 

 4-10 in.; bracts subulate or 0; pedicels long or short. Male fl. tomentose; 

 petals as long as the sepals, woolly ; disk-glands minute ; receptacle villous with 

 white hairs ; stamens often far exserted. Fern. fl. ; sepals ovate, subacute, scabrid ; 

 petals very minute, subulate, long-ciliate ; disk low, hirsute. Capsules -1 in. long 

 or broad, terete or with 6 slender ridges, densely rusty scabridly pubescent, 6-valved 

 from the top downwards. Seed very variable, dorsally compressed, slightly rugose. 

 The variable fruit is a remarkable character of this plant. I recognize the following 



