CrotonJ] cxxxv. EUPHOEBIACE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) 389 



forms, to which may be added Kurz's genuina, with capsules the size of a bullet or 

 larger and glabrous seeds ; and var. minor with capsules the size of a large pea or small 

 cherry and unripe seeds sprinkled with stellate hairs. 



Wallich's No. 7762 from Singapore is referred to G. caudatus by Mueller, but if 

 the unattached capsule belongs to it, its thin crustaceous texture is very different, the 

 leaves too are much larger and more coriaceous ; it is in a very bad state. Roxburgh 

 in describing the fruit alludes to two varieties, of which the larger has 3-nerved 

 cotyledons. 



Var. 1. kispida ; leaves large rounded cordate, capsule globose f in. diam. stellately 

 hispid, seeds in. 



Var. 2. ruminata ; leaves large rounded cordate, capsule globose or broadly oblong 

 -1 in. long or broad, seeds broadly obiong, finely rusty scaberulous, endocarp woody 

 recurved, seeds ^ in. long longitudinally obscurely furrowed covered with scattered 

 stellate hairs. Sikkim and Khasia Mts. 



Var. 3. globosa ; leaves as in 2, fruit globose endocarp quite smooth, seeds \ in. 

 long. 



Var. 4. tomentosa; leaves ovate softly tomentose beneath acutely toothed with 

 often a cup-shaped gland at every tooth on the under surface. Silhet (Wall. Cat. 

 7838), Assam, Griffith. 



Var. 5. malaccana ; leaves smaller usually ovate-cordate base rounded acuminate 

 sharply toothed, capsule f-1 in. globose or broadly oblong with 6 low ribs finely rusty- 

 pubescent, endocarp woody smooth, seeds very broad -^ in. long, retuse at both ends, 

 and with a dorsal shallow furrow. Mergui and Malacca, G-riffitTi (Kew Distrib. 4775) ; 

 Maingay (1376). 



10. C. tpmentosus, Muell. Arg. in Linncea xxxiv. 107, and in DC. 

 Prodr. xv. ii. 588 ; all parts thickly clothed with stellate tomentum, leaves 

 coriaceous ovate or oblong acute entire or denticulate 3-plinerved, racemes 

 short few-fld., bracts long glandular, stamens about 25 glabrous, styles 

 2-partite arms slender 2-fid, ovary densely stellately hispid. C. chinensis, 

 Benth. Fl. Hongk. 309. C. chrozophoroides, Kurz mss. C. crassifolins, 

 G-eisel Croton. Monogr. 19. Tridesmis tomentosa, LOUT. Fl. Coch. ii. 707. 



PEGU, Kurz. DISTEIB. South China. 



Stems or branches 6-10 in. high, apparently erect from a prostrate woody rootstock, 

 stiff, terete. Leaves few, 23 in., rigid; nerves 45 pair above the basal, strong 

 beneath; petiole -1 in., very stout. Racemes 2-4 in.; glands of bracts long- 

 stipitate. Sepals ovate, nearly glabrous within. Petals of male as long, oblong, 

 margins woolly. Young capsule J in., terete ? densely stellately hispid. 



11. C. coelococcus, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 377 ; shrubby, all parts scaberu- 

 lous with stellate hairs, leaves broadly ovate or elliptic-ovate acute entire 

 or denticulate 3-plinerved at the rounded base, racemes slender, bracts 

 minute, sepals hispid, ovary stellately hispid, styles 2-partite slender hairy, 

 capsule small deeply 3-lobed tuberculate and stellately hispid. 



PEGU, M'Clelland; at Rangoon, Kurz. 



A rigid shrub, branches terete. Leaves 2-3 in., basal nerves extending beyond 

 the middle ; glands stipitate ; petiole -| in. Racemes 1-2 in.; male fl. not seen. 

 Sepals not accrescent. Capsules ^~% in. diam., broader than long, 3-lobed at top 

 and sides, lobes spreading. Seeds broadly ovoid, arillate, smooth, brown. The 

 specimens are indifferent. 



12. C. birmanicus, Muell. Arg. in Linncea xxxiv. 112, and in DC. 



Prodr. xv. ii. 601 ; branches scabrid with stellate hairs, leaves coriaceous 

 orbicularly ovate-cordate acuminate finely gland-toothed minutely stellately 

 pubescent on both surfaces strongly 3-5-plinerved at the base, racemes 

 solitary stout terminal, fern, sepals ovate-lanceolate acuminate, stamens 



