Cleistanthus. | EUPHORBIACER. 371 
few together in small axillary clusters, the bracts ciliate ; calyx 
slightly appressed-hairy outside ; ovary glabrous, sessile. 
Has.—Tenasserim or Andamans. 
CROTON, L. 
Flowers usually monoecious. Calyx usually 5- rarely 4-6- (or 
in the females up to 12-) parted, slightly imbricate in bud. Petals 
as many as sepals, in the males usually developed, in the females 
often rudimentary or obsolete. Glands of disk alternating with the 
- Stamens 5 to very numerous, usually 10-20, the filaments 
inflected in bud. Ovary usually 3- rarely 2- or 4-celled, with a soli- 
ovule in each cell ; styles dichotomously cleft. Capsules usually 
8-coccous, the cocci 2-valved and l-seeded. Seeds albuminous, 
with a spermaphore. Embryo erect, the cotyledons ovate, as long 
as the radicle—Trees or shrubs, rarely undershrubs or BE Sng 
with alternate simple leaves. Stipules paired, developed or obsolete, 
Flowers small, in racemes or spikes, rarely in clusters. 
* Styles simply 2-cleft to the middle or to near the ee 
x grate of young shoots silvery or coppery sca 
oO Pedicels of female flowers very short an ” thick, 
sulcate, 
Leaves st chartaoo, densely silvery or coppery scaly beneath, acu- 
C. argyratus. 
Leaves corincons, bluntish to ainvat retuse, adult almost “slab- 
us, lateral nerves fai . C. robustus, 
OO P edicels aot and often » lender 
a “eas gr or nearly so, coarsely repand- serrate ; capsule 
e of a cherry-stone, lepidote ; Secret about 3 lin. 
C. oblongifolius. 
ong 
—- aves glabrous or nearly £0; ; capsule the size of a pigeon’ 8 
sm ste fo bulernes us ; seed % in. long . C. Joufra, 
Xx x t of young shoots coniting of "sessile and 
bert stalked stellate hair 
O er or indis tinct a at base. 
Young leaves all deer fe “on It ones beneath shortly pubescent ; 
capsule ize of a Bem eile puberlos 3 seeds about 
2lin.long . : . C. Wallichit. 
© Béaves 5- oF 6- plinerved aed 
-++ Capsule obsoletel hes lobed or aces terete ; leaves 
Spl inerved at 
7 SCENCE | gtetevod or nearly so, 
Adult parts glabrous or realy Sea ale pedicels s thick, her # 
scaly, male slender ‘and eebrems capsules almost 
leas 3 almost eben : po Tiglium, 
7 fafiriacbia less stellat tely pubes. 
cent ; leaves often with a stalked gla 
the crenatures along the margin. 
A Capsule the size of a pea or somewhat 
1% 
td shoots rusty-scurfy ; basal glands of leaves stalked; cap- 
y sules sparingly appressed-stellate-hairy . . ©. sublyratus, 
‘Oung shoots softly floccose-stellate ; basal or of leaves sessile 
capsules densely and softly atellate-tomento « C. flocculosus. — 
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