Croton.] cxxxv. EUPHORBIACE^. (J. D. Hooker.) 395 



DOUBTFUL AND IMPERFECTLY KNOWN SPECIES. 



C. CARDIOSPERMUS, GcBrtn. Fruct. ii. 120, t. 107 ; Geisel Croton. Monog. 77 ; 

 Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 695. Ceylon. Mueller remarks that the absence 

 of a caruncle excludes this from Croton. It is impossible to say what it is ; possibly 

 a Phyllanthus. 



C. BAMIFLORUS, Grah. Cat. Bomb. PL 182 ; Muell. Arg. I.e. 693; "a small 

 tree, leaves alternate petioled oblong-ovate subglaucous beneath, flowers small whitfr 



trowing on the naked branches, capsules size of a large pea half aid in the scarious 

 -winged calyx, sparsely hairy." The Concan; near K 

 Gibson. I have not recognized this plant. 



C. RHEEDEI, Graft. Cat. Bomb. PL 182; Muell. Arg. I. c. 693; "an erect 

 suffruticose plant 2-3 feet high, flowers in terminal spikes." Croton Gibsonii, 

 Grah. 1. c. Eheede Hort. Mai. x. 83. It is impossible to say what C. Rheedei is ; 

 Mueller unites with it Graham's C. Gibsonii, which Graham says much resembles 

 Rheede's t."x. f. 83, and should probably be referred to it. It is also a suffruticose 

 species, and has petioled cordate serrate leaves. C. Rheedei is a native of Tull Ghat, 

 Salsette and Jowaur, C. Gibsonii of the northern peaks of the Deccan, D. Gibson* 

 Local botanists must rediscover both. 



C. TABACIFOLITJS, Geisel Croton. Monog. 26 ; Muell. Arg. I. c. 696, is un- 

 determinable by the description. Mueller observes that from its simple hairs it 

 cannot be a Croton, and that it may be Claoxylon indicus. 



35. GIVOTIA, Griff. 



A small stellately tomentose tree. Leaves alternate, rounded, and cor- 

 date, sinuate-toothed, base 5-9-nerved. Flowers in axillary and subtermi- 

 nal racemed or panicled cymes, dioecious. Disk entire or lobed. MALE FL. 

 Sepals 5, broad, unequal, imbricate. Petals 5, longer, cohering in a glo- 

 bose 5-lobed corolla. Disk of orbicular glands. Stamens 13-25, crowded 

 on a woolly receptacle, filaments connate below, erect ; anthers ovate, dorsi- 

 fixed, cells parallel. Pistillode 0. FEM. FL. Perianth of the male. Disk 

 cupular. Ovary 2-3-celled ; styles short, spreading, 2-fid ; ovules 1 in each 

 cell. Drupe subglobose ; putamen crustaceous, 1-celled, 1-seeded. Seed 

 globose or ellipsoid, testa bony, albumen fleshy ; cotyledons broad, flat. 



G-. rottleriformis, Griff, in Gale. Journ. Nat. Hist. iv. 388 ; Muell. 

 Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 1112; Baill. Etudes Gen. Eupliorb. 389; Wight 

 Ic. 1. 1889 ; Brand. For. Fl. 442 ; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 365 ; Dalz. # 

 Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 228; Beddome Fl. Sylvat. t. 285. Govania nivea, Wall. 

 Cat. 7S5I. Wall. Cat. 7819 A, C. 



DECCAN PENINSULA; common in the central ranges of the Ghats from Dharwar 

 and Bellary southwards, Wight, &c. CEYLON ; in the drier parts of the island. 



A small tree ; branches stout, wood soft. Leaves attaining 10 in. long and broad, 

 coriaceous, hoary above, beneath white with dense appressed wool ; nerves 5-7, basal, 

 with several pairs above them ; petiole stout, 46 in., woolly, with sometimes a few 

 glands. Panicles 4-8 in. long ; cymes dense or lax-fld. ; bracts filiform ; pedicels 

 jointed. Malefl. % in. diam., fern. in. ; sepals stellately tomentose, shorter than or 

 equalling the oblong glabrous petals ; filaments hairy below. Fem.fl. j ovary globose, 

 stellately hairy. JDrupe f-1 in. diam., hoary. Seed smooth. 



36. TRXGONOSTE1KON, Blume. 



Evergreen trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, penninerved. Flowers in 

 axillary or terminal spikes racemes or cymes, monoecious. MALE FL. Sepals 

 5, imbricate. Petals 5. Disk of 5 glands, often united in a lobed cup. 



