104 EUPRORB1ACEM. [ CROTON. 



C. TIGUUM, Linn.; Roxb. Fl. 2nd. iU 9 682 ; Brandis For. FL 440 ; 

 F. B. I. v, 393 ; Watt E. D.; Gamble Man. 614 ; Prain Beng. PL 

 943 ; Cooke FL Bomb, ii, 600. Vern Jaipdl (The Purging Croton). 



A small evergreen tree, with the young shoots stellately hairy. Leaves 

 glabrous and membranous, 2-4 in. long, ovate, acuminate serrate, 

 3-5-nerved. Stamens 15-20. Capsule -1 in. long, ovoid, 3-gonous. 

 The plant is not truly indigenous in India, but it is frequently found 

 as if wild, and in some parts of India is becoming naturalized. It 

 is often cultivated in native gardens for the sake of the powerfully 

 purgative oil yielded by the seeds. The so-called garden " Crotons," 

 with variegated leaves, and which are much cultivated in Indian 

 gardens, belong to the genus Codiceum. 



13. CHROZOPHORA, Neck. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. v, 408. 



Diffuse densely hispid or stellately tomentose herbs or under - 

 shrubs. Leaves alternate, sinuate-toothed or lobed, wavy or plaited, 

 2-glandular at the base. Flowers monoecious, in sessile axillary 

 bracteate racemes ; males crowded in the upper part of the raceme ; 

 females solitary and pedicelled. MALE fl. Calyx globose or ovoid, 

 splitting into 5 valvate segments. Petals 5, short. Disk obscure. 

 Stamens 5-15, filaments connate below in 1-3 series, anthers oblong ; 

 cells parallel, contiguous. Pistillode none. FEM. fl. Sepals 5, 

 very narrow, sometimes setaceous or obsolete. Disk of 5 short 

 broad glands alternate with the petals. Ovary 3-celled ; styles 

 2-fid., erect or spreading, ovules solitary in each cell. Fruit a 

 capsule of 3 hispid tomentose or scaly almost fleshy 2-valved cocci 

 Seeds without a strophiole, testa shining, albumen fleshy ; coty- 

 ledons broad, flat. Species about 7, Asiatic, Mediterranean and 

 African, 



Ovary and capsule clothed with stellate to- 



mentum and silvery scales ; stamens 5 . 1. C. obliqua, VAB 



hierosolymitana. 



Ovary and capsule clothed with stellate to- 

 mentum, but without silvery scales ; 

 stamens 15, in 2 series : 

 An erect stellately hairy herb sparingly 

 branched below ; leaves up to 4 in. long, 

 pale-green ; sepals of female flowers tri- 

 angular . . . . . . 3. C. Eo'tleri. 



