Croton.] cxxxv. EUPHORBIACE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) 391 



CEYLON; at Caltura, Moon, Thwaites. 



A small tree ; branchlets woody. Leaves 3-6 in., rather coriaceous, very dark 

 above when dry, greyish beneath ; nerves 7-12 pairs, slender, spreading ; glands 

 minute; petiole ^- in., scabrid. ' Sepals obtuse, stellate-tomentose. Disk of male 

 obscure, of fern, small annular The specimens are in a young state, and I have seen 

 no fruit. Beddome regards it as a var. of C. aromaticus, from which Thwaites' spe- 

 cimens differ in the longer narrower penninerved leaves. The styles are as in 

 aromaticus. 



16. C. erythrostachys, Hook. f. ; branches young leaves petioles 

 and racemes rusty stellately scabrid, leaves ovate oblong or. linear-oblong 

 acuminate subserrnlate penninerved smooth and shining above scabrid 

 beneath, racemes short stout, stamens about 12 glabrous, ovary depressed 

 stellate hispid, styles very slender 2-partite, capsule -|-| in. diam. globose 



scabrid. 



MALACCA, Cuming (No. 2393), Griffith (Kew. Distrib. 4777), Loll. 

 ' Leaves coriaceous, 3-8 by 1-2| in., base subacute rounded or subcordate ; nerves 

 8-12 pair, slender, spreading; glands sessile; petiole \-\\ in., stout, rusty. 

 Racemes 1-2^ in.; flowers rather large; males tomentose, fern, more hispid ; sepals 

 glabrous within. Petals of male oblong, of fern, subulate. Capsule crustaceous. 



17. C. rhodostachyus, Muell. Arg. in Linnoea xxxiv. 108, and in 

 DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 590 ; shoots and young leaves beneath stellately puberulous, 

 leaves long-petioled elliptic or elliptic-oblong obtuse or subacute crenulate 

 penninerved base acute, young racemes fascicled rusty-tomentose, stamens 

 10-12. C. denticulatus, Wall. Cat. 7731. Wall. Cat. 7739 in part. 



BURMA ; at Taong-dong and Sejavi, Wallich. 



Branches woody, stout, bark grey. Leaves coriaceous* 4-7 in., variable in width, 

 dull greenish when dry, base contracted and sometimes very narrowly cordate j 

 nerves 8-10 pair, very slender; glands minute; petiole l-2 in., terete, puberulous. 

 Hacemes too young for description. A very imperfectly known plant. 



Inflorescence glabrous or nearly so. 



18. C. laevifolius, Blume Bijd. 603; glabrous, leaves elliptic or 

 elliptic-lanceolate or oblong acuminate subserrate penninerved base usually 

 acute, racemes rather short, flowers small males filled with silvery wool, 

 stamens about 10, disk of fern, of 5 large glands, ovary globose stellately 

 hispid and withlepidote scales, styles 2-partite, capsule |in. diam. depressed 

 globose smooth and shining. Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 619. C. 

 diadenus, Miguel Fl. 2nd, Sat. Suppl. 451. Wall. Cat. 7719. 



KHASIA MTS., alt. 3-4000 ft., Wallich, &c. DISTEIB. Mts. of Java, Sumatra. 



A small tree, very young shoots and leaves sparsely stellately lepidote. Leaves 

 2-4 in., membranous, green when dry, nerves 8-12 pair ; glands small, at length 

 stipitate ; petiole i-l in., very slender. Racemes 2-4 in., sometimes with a few 

 scattered stellate scales ; bracts lanceolate ; flowers often 2-3 together seated on 

 small pulvini of the rachis, males appearing as if stuffed with the stellately woolly 

 hairs of the receptacle. Sepals of male bearded at the tip ; of fern, ovate, acute, 

 recurved, quite glabrous. Filaments glabrous. Styles rather short. Capsule crus- 

 taceous, with no stellate hairs or scales. I have seen no Javanese or Sumatran 

 specimens, and take the identifications from Mueller. The similarity of this to C. 

 Elotzchianus has led to these species being indiscriminately numbered in the distri- 

 bution of Wallich's plants. C. argutus, cited under Icevifolius by Mueller, is C. 

 Klotzschianus. The Philippine Island C. leiophyllus, Muell. (Tiglium Cumingii, 

 Klotzsch), is very near C. Icevifolius, but the ovary is lepidote and the fruit is wanting. 



