CROTON.] EUPHOSB1ACE&. 103 



monoecious, solitary or clustered on the rhachis of a terminal 

 raceme ; bracts small. MALE-flowers : Calyx 5 (rarely 4 or 6)-partite ; 

 segments imbricate or subvalvate. Petals 5, rarely 4 or 6, never 

 larger and sometimes smaller than the calyx. Disk of 4 or 6 

 glands, opposite the sepals. Stamens many, inserted on the hairy 

 receptacle ; filaments free, inflexed in bud ; anthers adnate, the 

 cells parallel. Pistillode none. FEM'.- flowers : Sepals rarely 

 accrescent in fruit. Petals smaller than the sepals. Disk as in 

 the males. Oraiy 3 (rarely 2 or 4)-celled ; ovules solitary in each 

 cell ; style usually slender, 2-4-cleft. Capsule subequally 6-valved 

 or of 3 separating 2-valved cocci. Seeds smooth, caruncle small, 

 testa crustaceous, albumen copious, cotyledons broad. Specie3 

 upwards of 500, in all hot countries. 



C. oblongifolius, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 69 ; FL Ind. Hi, 685 ; 

 Brandis For. FL 440 ; Ind. Trees 577 ; F. B. I. v, 386 ; Watt E. D.; 

 Gamble Man. 614 ; Prain Beng. PL 943 ; Cooke FL Bomb, ii, 599. 

 Vern. Arjunna (Oudh). 



A medium-sized deciduous tree ; young parts inflorescence and ovary 

 clothed with minute orbicular silvery scales. Leaves crowded to- 

 wards the ends of the branchlets, 5-10 in. long, oblong-lanceolate,, 

 subacute, glabrous (when mature), crenate or serrate, penninerved ; 

 base usually acute, without apparent glands above the petioles ; 

 petioles J-1J in. long. Flowers yellowish-green, solitary or clustered 

 in the axils of minute bracts on long erect often fascicled racemes. 

 MiALX-flowers many, on the upper portion of the raceme. Calyx 

 divided about J towards the base ; segments ^ in. long or more, ovate, 

 obtuse. Petals | in. long, elliptic-lanceolate, obtuse, woolly. 

 Stamens 12, inflexed in bud ; filaments hairy below. F 'EM. -flowers at 

 the base of the racemes ; pedicels short, stout. Sepals acute, the 

 margins ciliate. Petals ^ in. long, obovate, the margins densely 

 woolly. Styles 3, nearly in. long, each divided into 2 slender 

 curled branches J in. long. Capsules J in. in diam., subglobose, 

 slightly 3-lobed, clothed with minute orbicular scales. Seeds ellipsoid, 

 rounded on the back. 



Common and often gregarious in the Gonda district of N. Oudh and 

 in the Gorakhpur district (Brandis). The leaves turn red before 

 falling in March, and the new foliage appears soon afterwards. Dis- 

 TRIB. : Bengal, Ch. Nagpur, Silhet, Central, W. and S. India and in 

 the dry region of Ceylon ; also in the mixed forests of Burma. The 

 bark, leaves and fruit are used in native medicine. 



