Croton.] cxxxv, EUPHORBIACEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) 393 



both sexes. Sepals of fern, ovate, acute; petals, subulate, hairy; styles very long, 

 divided way down. Capsule " at length glabrous," Thwaites. This is un- 

 doubtedly, as Beddome has pointed out, Wight's Klotzschianus, and is well figured by 

 him. Wight compares it with C. Tiglium, from which it differs widely in the elliptic 

 leaves and nerves. I have seen no ripe fruit. 



22. C. ardisioideSj Hoolc.f.\ robust, quite glabrous, leaves oblong or 

 linear- or obovate-oblong obtuse crenate penninerved base acute, racemes 

 very slender, flowers small scattered, disk of male obscure of fern. 5-lobed,. 

 stamens about 12, ovary depressed stellate-tomentose, styles 2-partite, 

 capsule very small globose smooth. 



MALACCA, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 4783). DISTEIB. Borneo. 



Branches stout. Leaves 2-4 in., rather coriaceous, tawny yellow when dry j 

 nerves 6-10 pairs, very slender ; glands petiolar, small ; petiole 5 1|- in., stout, 

 terete. Racemes 3-5 in., flexuous ; bracts minute ; flowers scattered. Sepals 

 glabrous, of male with bearded tips ; of fern, ovate, obtuse. Capsule (one only seen) 

 % in. diam., terete. 



fff Leaves strongly triple-nerved, glabrous or nearly so. 



23. C. Tiglium, Linn. Sp. PI. p. 1004; youngest shoots sparsely 

 stellately hairy, leaves long-petioled membranous glabrous ovate acuminate 

 serrate 3-5-plinerved, rachis of racemes and small flowers glabrous, fern, 

 stellately hairy, stamens 15-20, ovary stellately hispid, styles slender 

 2-partite, capsule large oblong 3-lobed, pericarp thin glabrous or slightly 

 hispid. Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 600 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. 682; Kurz 

 For. Fl. ii. 374; G-rah. Cat. Bomb. PL 181 ; Wall. Cat. 7722; BlumeBijd. 

 ii. 602; Klotzsch in Hayne Arzneigew. xiv. t. 3; Marchand in Baill. Bee. 

 Obs. Bot. i. 232-245, t. 9, 10 ; Bentl. $ Trimen Med. PI. iii. t. 239. 0. JamaU 

 gota, Ham. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xiv. 258. 0. PdVana (Parona in Wall. 

 Cat. 1. c.), Ham. I c. 259 ; Muell. Arg. I. c. 623 (Paranae). Tiglium 

 omcinale, Klotzscli in Nov. Act. Acad. Nat. Cur. xix. Suppl. i. 418. Burm. 

 Fl. Zeyl t. W.Rheede Hort. Mai. ii. t. 33. 



BENGAL, ASSAM, and southward to MALACCA, BTJBMA, and CEYLON, naturalized 

 or cultivated. DISTRIB. China, Malay Islands. 



A small evergreen tree. Leaves 2-4 in., yellowish when dry, rarely elliptic or 

 oblong, sometimes glandular beneath ; nerves 2-3 pair above the basal ; glands 

 minute, sessile ; petiole 1-2 in., slender. Racemes 2-3 in. ; bracts subulate. Male 

 fl.\ pedicels stellately hairy; sepals nearly glabrous, tips bearded; petals narrow, 

 woolly-edged; stamens glabrous, receptacle villous ; disk-glands 5, small. Fem.fl.; 

 sepals villous at the base within; petals 0; disk obscure, annular; ovary oblong. 

 Capsule |-1 in. long, white, turbinately obovoid, obtusely trigonous. Seed i-| in., 

 oblong, obtusely trigonous, pale. I find no characters whereby to distinguish 

 Hamilton's C. Parana from Tiglium ; Mueller is mistaken in supposing that 

 Wallich's 7722 B is not Hamilton's plant ; the specimen is Hamilton's own from 

 Goyalpara in Kamrup (Assam), and is so named by himself. 



24. C. nigre-viridiSj Thivaites Enum. 276; shoots racemes and 

 young leaves beneath sparsely stellately pubescent, leaves coriaceous broadly 

 ovate or ovate-lanceolate acuminate serrulate ftase strongly 3-nerved, 

 racemes short stout, ovary stellately hispid, styles long 2-partite, fruit 

 small subglobose 3-lobed woody scabrid and sparsely stellate. Muell. Arg. 

 in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 601 ; Wawra Bot. It. Pr. Sax. Cob. 37. 



CEYLON; Central Province, alt. 5000ft., Thwaites. 



A small tree; branches very stout, smooth. Leaves 3-5 in., leathery, greenish 

 when dry, quite smooth on both surfaces, base rounded ; nerves 1-3 pair above the 



