226 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



95. Julocroton Maet.^ — Flowers monœcioias (nearly of Crohn) 

 resupinatc ; sepals valvato or slightly imbricate ; anterior 1, others 

 larger; posterior 2 smaller. Other characters of Croton. — Shi'ubs, 

 undershrubs or herbs ; habit, leaves, indumentum (copious) and inflo- 

 rescence of Croton. [Trop. 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 round small 

 rudiment of gynasceum. Female calyx regular or irregular. Petals 0, 

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

 times 2-chotomous. Fruit diy membraneous, indéhiscent; seed 1, 

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

 glandular peltate hairs.'' Leaves alternate petiolate narrow ; flowers 

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

 Other characters of Croton. (Warm N. America.^) 



97 ? Eremocarpus Benth.*' — Flowers monoecious (nearly of 

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

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

 tiferous at apex. Fruit capsular, 2-valved, 1-spermous. Other cha- 

 racters of Croton. — Annual graveolens herbs sprinkled everywhere 

 with stellate haii's 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 intermixed few. {California.'') 



I Herb. Fl. Bras. 119.— Kl. in JErichs. Arch. — H. Bn. Euphorb. 380, t. 12, fig. 23-27.— M. 



(1841), i. 193.— Endl. Oen. n. 5828.- H. Bn. Arg. Prodr. 107.— Friesia Speeng. Si/st. 760. 



Euphorb. 374.— M. Akg. Frodr. 700. — Setero- —Leptcmon Rafin. in N.-York. Med. Jiepos. ii. 



chlamys TuHCZ. in SiiU. Muse. (1843), 61 ; in v. 350 (ex Endl.) 



Flora (1844), 121.— Enw,. Gen. Suppl. v. 91.— -i Whence silvery-lepidote. 



Centandra Karst. Fl. Goliimb. 177, t. 88. ' Spec. 1, 2. W. Spec. iv. 380. — Pursh, Fl. 



■ Spec, ad 15. Lamk. Diet. ii. 214 (Crototi).— Jmer. Sept. i. 206.— A. Gray, Ma». 392. — 



Spreng. Syst. ii. 874 (CVu^o»)-— Vellos. Fl. Beck, Sot. N. and M. Stat. 310. 



Flum. X. t. 65, 06 (6Vo<o«).— Schlechtl, in « Voy. Salph. Bot. 53, t. 26.— Endi. Gen. n. 



Linnœa, vii. 380 {Croton); xix. 245.— Kl. Fl. 5862 2. — B.. Bn. Fiiphorb. 381.— M.. Arg. Prodr. 



Meyen. in Nov. Jet. Nat. Cur. xix. Suppl. 1, 708. 



417. — H. Bn. in Adansonia, ix. 367. ' Spec. 1. E. sdiffcrus Bekth. loc. cit. — Lindl. 



3 Fl. Bor.-Amer. ii. 185, t. 46.— A. Juss. Veg. Kingd. 276, fig. m.— Croton setigerus 



Euphorb. 31, t. 8, fig. 27.— Endl. Gen. n. 5826. Hook. Fl. Bur.-Anm: ii. 141. 



