410 cxxxv. EDPHORBIACE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Chrozoplwra. 



1. Leaves large 2-4 in., leathery, rounded with a rather truncate hase slightly 

 lobed often rugose or plaited, petiole long, racemes many-fld., fruiting peduncle often 

 2-3 in., capsule in. diain. C. plicata, I)alz., Boissier. Croton plicatus, Roxb. C. 

 Rottleri, Thwaites. 



2. Leaves less thick and less tomentose ovate entire or repand toothed, petioles 

 shorter. 



3. Leaves ^-1 in., rounded deeply hullate together with the branches often densely 

 tomentose or woolly sometimes deep green, racemes shorter fewer-fid. , capsules smaller 

 their pedicel never greatly lengthened. C.prostrata, Dalz., in Dalz. $f Gibs. Bomb. 

 Fl. 233. This, which often grows completely appressed to the ground, is regarded 

 by Dalzell as a very distinct species, occurring commonly in dried up water 

 holes. 



45. C&AOXVXiON, A. Juss. 



Evergreen trees or shrubs, rarely herbs. Leaves alternate, usually long- 

 petioled, and oblong, entire or sinuate-toothed, penninerved (3-plinerved in 

 one Indian species). Flowers small or minute, in axillary or lateral spikes 

 or racemes, usually dioecious. MALE FL. Calyx subglobose, of 3-4 valvate 

 segments. Petals 0. Disk 0. Stamens many, rarely few, inserted on or 

 around a central receptacle often intermixed with glands or long linear 

 ciliate scales ; filaments free ; anthers erect ; cells distinct, connate at the 

 base only, quite free above and erect, dehiscence extrorse. Pistillode 0. 

 ]?EM. PL. Calyx of the male. Disk or of 3 petal-like hypogynous scales 

 alternate with the carpels. Ovary 3-celled ; styles short, rarely long, entire, 

 spreading, fringed ; ovules 1 in each cell. Capsule of 3 2-valved cocci, or 

 coriaceous and indehiscent. Seeds subglobose, arillate or not, testa crus- 

 taceous, albumen fleshy ; cotyledons broad, flat. Species about 40, native 

 of the tropics of the Old World. 



The discovery of frutescent species of Claoxylon with the hypogynous male scales 

 (petals?) of Micrococca requires the suppression of the latter genus, the only other 

 character for which is its being an annual. Mueller describes the seeds of Claoxylon 

 as enclosed in an often coloured lax epidermis, Kurz as having a pure white or 

 scarlet axil. The genus will require revision when fuller and better materials than 

 those here described from are forthcoming. 



Sect. I. Fem.fl. without hypogynous scales. Stamens central in the 

 male fl. (See C. hirsutum in Sect. III.) 



* Filaments intermixed with ciliate filiform scales. 



1. C. indicum, HassJc. JLort. Sogor. 235; robust, leaves long-petioled 

 from elliptic to broadly orbicular-ovate sinuate-toothed tomentose pubescent 

 hoary or subglabrous, racemes 4-6 in., flowers shortly pedicelled, stamens 

 20-30, mixed with copious filiform villous scales, capsules small -^ in. diam. 

 trigonouply 3-lobed, seeds in. diam. Muell. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 782; 

 Miguel Fi. Ind. Sat. i. ii. 386. C. macrophyllum, Hassle. PI. Jav. Rar. 

 249. C. spiciflorum, Saill. Sec. Otis. Sot. i. 285 (excl. syn.). C. parvi- 

 florum, Hook, fy Arn. Sot. Seech. Voy. 212 (excl. syn.} ; Senth. FL Hongk. 

 305 (not of Juss.). Erythrochilus indicus, Reinwdt. in Slume Sijd. 615. 

 E. mollis, Slume I. c. Wall. Cat. 7842. 



MADRAS PENINSULA, Wight in Herb. Wall. TENASSERIM ; atMergui, Griffith. 

 BURMA and PENANG, Wallich. SINGAPORE, Schomburgk. DISTRIB. Malay Islands, 

 China. 



A large shrub or small tree ; branches stout, soft, pubescent or softly tomentose. 

 Leaves in the broad form 6-10 by 46 in., in the narrower 6-8 by 3-4 in., base 



