



Vol. IV, No. 11.] Recent Plant Immigranis. 605. 
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Pe em. wi es seties ree “9 cm. long. Stipules mere 
subulate points, rhage Siem Flowers in slender terminal racemes, 
6—12 cm. long, the flowers continuous, pistillate below, stamin- 
ate ahirs, vans much fewer. Staminate flowers scattered 
along the rhachis, about 2mm. high, the perianth segments: 
white and smaller, woolly at the ese inside ; stamens about 13. 
Perianth segments of the pistillate flowers lanceolate, ciliate ; 
inner segments none ; ovary tomentose ; styles 3, each 2- divided. 
Capsule angular globose, 5 or 6 mm. long, and 4 mm, broad, 
sparsely lepidote ; as flattened cylindrical, obtusely 2-angled, 
with a furrow on one side, truncate at either end, glabrous, 
slightly mamillate-asperous, shining, 5 mm. long, the caruncle 
conspicuous. e young branches and petioles are densely white 
lepidote. 
Tt will be seen that the two descriptions agree closely with 
each other, so that there can be hardly any doubt about the plant 
which is making its way into Eastern and Western Bengal being 
the same as that collected by Morung in South America. I prefer 
to describe the hairs as stellate instead of calling the indumen- 
tum lepidote. Of course, the two forms of indumentum pass 
into each other ; but the trichomes of our plant are very much 
like that of Fig. 23 C—COroton floribundus, Spring—in Engler, 
Pflanzenfamilien, vol. III, pt. 5, page 37; and the author of 
the Euphorbiaceae i in the Flora of British India would probably 
have pees our plant in the same subsection as Croton Wallichii, 
Muell. A 
In Britton’ s description no mention is made of the rather 
conspicuous orange-red disc-glands ; th 
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Britton having drawn up ee description from dried material, or 
THE PRESENT DISTRIBUTION OF CROTON SPARSIFLORUS 
IN BENGAL. 
ae Western Bengal the plant has been spreading from the 
Sunderbans upwards and is now found on both sides of the 
i River. It has already been mentioned that Croton sparsi- 
been observed by Colonel Prain at Diamond Harbour 
anil 4 lee places in the Western Gangetic Delta. 
Just below the Botanical Caan Sibpur, it has been found 
growing for at least seven years ; immediately above the Gardens 
made its appearance four or five yearsago. The plant appears 
refer road and railway embankments in the vicinity of rivers 
wd extensive pools of water. It grows abundantly near the Lime 
Works below the Sibpur Gardens, and on that side of the river 
I have followed it right down through Andul. After having once 
taken a foothold on the foreshore road south of the Engineering 
