942 BENGAL PLANTS, [Aleurites. 
830. Aleurites Forst. 
Trees with simple or stellate pubescence ; leaves alternate, long- 
Benes entire or 3—7-lobed, digitately 3-7-nerved from the base ; 
pe etiole 2-glandular at apex. Flowers moncecious or soldier, 
in lax terminal, panicled cymes; perianth double. ¢ Sepals con- 
nate in a closed calyx, bursting cad into 2-8 valvate lobes. 
Petals 5, exceeding the calyx. Stamens 8-20 on a conical torus, 
the outermost 5 oe with Wis glands and opposite the 
petals ; filaments short or long, all free; anthers erect, adnate ; 
‘all parallel. Pistillode 0. ¢ Perianth as in male. Disk 
obscure, or of 5 glands, alternate with petals. Carpels connate in 
ed ovary; ovules solitary in each cell; styles with 2 
stout, linear arms. Fruit a large drupe with a hard, 1-5-celled 
stone. Seed with a thick, woody yg albumen thick, hard ; 
embryo straight; cotyledons broad, 
1875. ALEURITES MOLUCCANA cn FA, I. x». 343. & 
. 7387. A. triloba F. I. iii. 629. 
In gardens, especially in C. Bengal. 
An evergreen tree, 40-60 feet high. Vernac. Akrét. 
831. Croton Linn. 
Trees or shrubs, rarely herbs; leaves alternate, rarely opposite 
or whorled, 2-glandular at the Flowers moneecious, rarely 
(not in our species) dicecious, ee or clustered on the rachis of 
a terminal raceme; bracts small. ¢ Sepals connate in‘a 5-partite, 
rarely 4-6-partite calyx ; segments imbricate or subvalvate. Petals 
5, rarely 4-6, never exceeding, sometimes smaller than the calyx. 
Disk of 4-6 glands, opposite the sepals. Stamens many, inserte 
on the hairy receptacle ; filaments free, inflexed in bud, at length 
straight ; anthers adnate ; cells parallel. Pistillode 0. 9 Sepals 
usually more ovate than in males, rarely accrescent in fruit. Petals 
smaller than sepals or obsolete. Disk annular or of 4-6 glands 
opposite the sepals. Carpels connate in a 3-celled, rarely 
celled ovary; ovules solitary in each cell; style usually slender, 
2-4-cleft. Fruit a subequally 6- somes: capsule, or of three sepa 
ating, 2-valved cocci. ‘Seeds ooth; ecaruncle small; tes 
pao aceous; albumen copious ; cts ms 
Inflorescence and young leaves lepidote ; leaves penninerved, oblong; 
aueecdilnc or elliptic-lanceolate, when her quite glabrous ; stamens 
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