226 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



95. Julocroton Maet.^ — Flowers moncecioiis (nearly of Croton) 

 resupiBate ; sepals valvate or slightly imbricate ; anterior 1 , otiiers 

 larger; posterior 2 smaller. Other characters of Croton. — Shruhs, 

 nndershrubs or herbs ; habit, leaves, indumeutmn (copious) and inflo- 

 rescence of Croton. [Troj). America., N. and S.'-^) 



96? Crotonopsis Michx.^ — Flowers monoecious (nearly of Cro- 

 ton); calyx imbricated. Male petals 5, sometimes very small or 0. 

 Stamens usually 5 (of Croton), oppositipetalous, inserted roimd small 

 rudiment of gyna;ceum. Female calyx regular or irregular. Petals 0, 

 or very minute. Germen 1-locular, 1 -ovulate; style twice or more 

 times 2-chotomous. Fruit di-y membraneous, indehiscent; seed 1, 

 scantily or scarcely arillate. — Thin-stemmed herbs sprinkled with 

 glandular peltate haii's.'* Leaves alternate petiolate narrow ; flowers 

 in 2 -sexual spikes ; bracts 1-florous; inferior female; others male. 

 Other characters of Croton. {Warr)i N. America.^) 



97 ? Eremocarpus Benth.'' — Flowers moufficious (nearly of 

 Croton) apetalous ; stamens 5-7 (of Croton). Female calyx 0. Ger- 

 men 1-locular, ] -ovulate; style simple slender, subulate stigma- 

 tifcrous at apex. Fruit capsular, 2-valved, ]-spermous. Other cha- 

 racters of Croton. — Annual graveolens herbs sprinkled everywhere 

 with stellate hairs or rigid hyaline bristles; branches 2, .3-choto- 

 mous patulous ; leaves opposite or falsely verticillate petiolate rhom- 

 boid, 3-plinerved ; flowers in short glomeruliform spikes at nodes ; 

 female inferior or iutermixed few. {California.'') 



1 Eerb. Fl.Bias. 119.— Kl. in Erichs. Arch. — H. Bn. Euphurh. 380, t. 12, fig. 23-27.— M. 



(1841), i. 193.— Endl. Oen. n. 5828.— H. Bn. Aro. Frodr. 707.— Friesia Swieno. Si/st. 760. 



Eiijihorb. 374.— M. Aro. rrodr. 700.— Hetero- —Leptcmon Rafin. in N.-Turk. Med. liepos. ii. 



chhmijs Tiuicz. in Bidl. Mosc. (1843), 61 ; in v. 350 (ex Endl.) 



Flora (1844), 121. — Endl. Gm. Supjil. v. 91. — ^ AVhence silverv-lepidote. 



Centandra Karst. Fl. Colnmb. 177, t. 88. 5 j^pgc, i_ 2. \V." Spec. iv. 380.— PuRBH, El. 



■ Spec, ud 15. Lamk. Diet. ii. 214 (Crvtoit).— Jnicr. Sept. i. 206.— A. Gray, Man. 392.— 



Si'RENG. Si/st. ii. 874 (Croto.).— Vellos. Fl. Beck, Bot. N. and M. Stat. 310. 



Flum. X. t. 65, 66 {Crotou) .-Schlecstl, in « Vui/. Salph. Bid. 53, t. 26.— Ernt. Gen. n. 



Ziniiaa, vii. 380 {Croton); xix. 245.— Kl. PI. 5S62''.—B.. B^. Fiiphorb. SSl.-M. Ana. Prodi: 



Meijeii. in Noc. Act. Nat. Cur. xix. Siippl. 1, 708. 



417. — H. Bn. in Adansonia, iv. 367. 1 Spec. 1. E. sdir/erus B-E^'vn. loc. cit. — Lindl. 



» Fl. Bor.-Amer. ii. 185, t. 46.— A, Jvsa. I'ly. Kimjd. 276, fig. \0\.— Croton setiyiriis 



Eupliorb. 31, t. 8, fig. 27.— Endl. Gen. n. 5826. UoOK. Fl. Bor.-Amer. ii. 141. 



