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Prostrate woolly herbs diffusely branching 

 from the root ; leaves up to 1 in. in 

 diam., often dark purplish -browr ; sepals 

 of female flowers linear : 

 Leaves about as broad as long, eglandular 



at the base . . . . 3. C. pro^t-ata. 



Leaves longer than broad, 2-glandul^r at 



the base . . . . C. prostrata, VAB. 



parvifolia. 



1. C. obliqua, .4 Juss. Tent. Euphorb. 28, VAR. hierosoly- 

 juiitana, Spreng. Syst. 850. C. verbascifolia, A. Juss. Croton 

 tinctorius, Wall. Cat 7716 G. Leaves ovate, nearly as long as broad, 

 usually more or less toothed, clothed on both sides with stellate 

 tomentum. Stamens 5. Ovary and capsule clothed \\ith stellate 

 hairs and silvery scales. Seeds glabrous. 



The only locality recorded for this plant as occurring within the area 

 of this flora is Muttra, where specimens are said to have gathered 

 many years ago by Colonel Hardwicke, but by no other collector 

 east of the Jumna subsequently. The plant appears to be widely 

 distributed in the Punjab Plain from Ambala to Rawal Pindi and 

 on the Salt Range ; it extends alrfo to Arabia, Palestine (Garden of 

 Gethsemane near Jerusalem, collected by Sieber) and North Africa. 



2. C. Rottleri, A. Juss. Tent. Euphorb. 28. C. plicata, Da/2. 

 and Gibs, (not of A. Juss.) ; Royle III. 329 ; F. B. I. v, 409 ; Watt 

 E. D.; Prain Beng. i I. 944 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb, ii, 607. Croton 

 plicatus, Vahl; Roxb. Fl. Ind. Hi, 681. 



An erect hoary annual herb up to 2 ft. high, with a long straight slender 

 tap-root. Stem usually naked below, sparingly branched above. 

 Leaves 2-4 in. long, ovate to orbicular, often obscurely 3-lobed, 

 thick, rugose, pale -giv en, stellate-hairy on both surfaces ; petioles 

 1-2 in. Ion?. Male flowers. Calyx J in. long. Petals smaller, very 

 thin, ovate-lanceolate. Stamens 15, in two whorls. Fern, flowers. 

 Sepals T V in. long, triangular. Petals shorter and narrower. Cap- 

 sules J in. in diam., densely stellate -hairy, but without silvery scales. 



Jdirzapur at Shahganj (J.D.H.). DISTBIB. : Punjab Plain (T. Thomson); 

 Sind (Stocks) ; Gujarat (D. and G.) ; Dharwar (Cooke). 

 Deccan (D. and G., Graham, Cooke) ; Behar (J. D. H.) Bengal 

 (Prain) ; Chota Nagpur (Haines) ; Burma (Griff) ; also in Madras 

 Pres., extending to N. Africa and Spain. The root and leaves are 

 stated by Stewart to be used medicinally in the Punjab. 



