390 cxxxv. EUPHORBIACEJ3. (J. D. Hooker.) [Croton. 



about 15 glabrous, ovary densely stellate-torn entose, styles 2-partite slender. 

 C. drupaceus ?, Wall. Cat. 7744, and C. aromaticus, 7773 A. 



BURMA; on the Irawaddy at Taong-dong, WalUch. PEGU, McClelland. 



Branches woody, bark pale. Leaves 3-5 in., yellow-brown when dry, base very 

 broadly cordate ; nerves 5-6 pair above the basal, strong beneath ; glands cup- 

 shaped, sessile ; petiole 1-1^ in., stout. Capsules " large, depressed-globose, inflated, 

 rigidly chartaceous. Seeds smooth," Mueller. There are no capsules in Wallich's 

 Herbarium, and I have seen none. 



ft" Leaves penninerved, not or obscurely 3-nerved at the base ; mature 

 usually quite glabrous above (or scaberulous in C. Moonii}. 



Inflorescence tomentose or stellatety pubescent. 



13. C. Wallichii, Muell. Arg. in Linncea xxxiv. 118, and in DC. 

 Prodr.xv. ii. 623; shoots and young leaves softly stellate-pubescent, leaves 

 obovate oblanceolate or elliptic acuminate subserrate glabrous or softly 

 puberulous beneath base narrowed acute or narrowly cordate nerves 6-12 

 pair, racemes fascicled finely tomentose, stamens 10-12 hairy below, ovary 

 stellately pubescent, styles slender 2-partite, capsule small 3-lobed puberu- 

 lous. Kurz For. Fl. ii. 373. Croton sp., Wall. Cat. 7729, 7730, 7733, 

 7739 (in part}. 



BURMA, Wallich. PEGU, to TENASSERIM, Griffith, Kurz. 



A small deciduous tree. Leaves 3-10 by l|-3 in., yellow when dry, quite glabrous 

 above, base often produced, glands depressed ; petiole 1-1 -^ in., scaberulous. Ra- 

 cemes 4-8 in., slender. Sepals tomentose. Disk of fern. fl. obscure. Styles shorter 

 than in many species. Capsule the size of a pea. Seeds T \ in. long. I have seen 

 no fruit, and described it from Kurz and Mueller. The latter describes the habit 

 and inflorescence as of C. caudatus, but this must be a lapsus, possibly for oblongi- 

 folius. The fern. fl. have petals which it greatly resembles, but differs in the inflo- 

 rescence not being lepidote. 



14. C. sublyratuSj Kurz For. Fl. ii. 374; shoots rusty-scurfy, 

 leaves very shortly petioled obovate to almost lyrate oblong obtuse or 

 acuminate repand-serrulate beneath glabrous or with scabrous nerves, 

 racemes stellate-tomentose, stamens 15-20 glabrous, ovary densely stellate- 

 tomentose, styles short 2-partite, capsules small 3-lobed crustaceous 

 sparsely pubescent. 



Maritime forests of the ANDAMAN ISLANDS, Kurz. ? MOULMEIN, Falconer. 



A deciduous shrub. The only authentically named specimen I have seen of this 

 is in a very young state ; the branches are stout ; the leaves 6-8 in. long, dark brown, 

 acuminate, subentire, glabrous on both surfaces, cordate at the narrowed "base ; the 

 petiole stout, % J in. long, and the inflorescence too young for examination. Others 

 also collected by Kurz in the Andamans, but unnamed, have membranous serrulate 

 pale-brown leaves, and scaberulous old fruiting racemes; the foliar glands are either 

 sessile or shortly stipitate, capsules ^ in. diam., and seeds subglobose smooth and 

 mottled. A very similar plant from Moulmein in bad state, collected by Falconer, 

 has decandrous male flowers with filaments villous below, and a shortly villous recep- 

 tacle. The narrowing of the leaves above the base is characteristic of this species. 



15. C. Moonii, Tkwaites Enum. 276; branches and leaves beneath 

 stellftely scabrid, leaves oblong or linear-oblong acuminate subserrulate 

 smooth or scaberulous above penninerved base rounded or unequally cor- 

 date, racemes tomentose, stamens 10-16, ovary stellately hispid, styles 2-5- 

 partite, capsule %$ in. diam. depressed-globose scurfy and tubercled. 

 Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 590. C. punctatus, Moon Cat. 



