372 EUPHORBIACES. [ Croton. 
A A Capsules the size of a bullet or pigeon’s 
egg. 
Young shoots minutely tubercled-stellate-hispid ; basal glands of 
leaves stalked ; capsules minutely tubercled-stellate-rough . C. caudatus. 
apsules deeply 3-lobed. 
Leaves 3-nerved at the base, pubescent ; capsule the size of a pea, 
ensely tubercled-stellate-hispid . . . . . C. calococeus, 
* %* Styles twice dichotomously 2-cleft. 
All parts densely stellate-tomentose; floral bracts 2-3 lin. long, 
fringed with conspicuous gland-hairs ; erect low undershrub . C. crozophoroides. 
1. C. argyratus, Bl—An evergreen tree (25—30+15—20+ 
2—3), all younger parts silvery or coppery scaly; bark 2-3 lin. 
thick, grey, transversely scared and fissured lengthwise ; cut pale- 
coloured ; leaves ovate, elliptical to elliptically lanceolate, on a 
shorter or longer ($-14 in. long) scaly petiole, 2-glandular and 
obtuse at the base, sharply acuminate, entire, thin-coriaceous or 
chartaceous, when full-grown glabrous above, silvery or coppery 
lepidote beneath ; flowers small, white, on very thick, sulcate, scaly 
pedicels about 4-1 lin. long, forming densely lepidote, more or less 
elongate racemes in the axils of the upper leaves and at the end of 
the branchlets, the rachis suleate ; calyx coriaceous, lepidote outside, 
glabrous within ; petals and filaments villous; ovary scaly, brown ; 
styles simply 2-cleft; capsules almost globular and slightly 3- 
lobed, the size of a large pea, 3-coccous, densely covered with brown 
e coppery scales; seeds smooth, about 2 lin. long or somewhat 
longer. 
_Has.—Not unfrequent in the tropical forests from Martaban down to Tenas- 
serim.—F], March.—s.—SS.=Metam. 
__ Remarxs.—Wood rather heavy, close-grained, of a fine silvery fibre, yellow- 
ish white, soft. 
2. C. robustus, Kz.—An evergreen tree (15—25 + short + 2— 
3), the young shoots densely rusty-scaly ; leaves elliptical to ellip- 
tically oblong, on a thick rusty-scaly petiole up to an inch long, 
obtuse or acute at the 2-glanded base, 14-5 in. long, blunt or 
bluntish with or without a mucro, rarely almost retuse, coriaceous, 
obsoletely repand or entire, beneath sprinkled with rusty or yellow- 
ish coloured scales and glabrescent, the lateral nerves faint ; flowers 
small, the males greyish villous-sealy and shortly pedicelled, form- 
ing longer (the females larger, rusty-scaly and almost sessile and 
forming shorter) spike-like racemes, the rachis greyish or rusty- 
tomentose-scaly and suleate ; calyx tomentose-scaly ; styles Q-cleft; 
ovary densely coppery-scaly; capsules globose-ovoid, 3-coccous an@ =~ 
6-suleate, the size of a large pea, tawny-silvery, obscurely Be. 
se cled ; seeds nearly 3 lin. long, oblong-3-angular, smooth, — 
rown. 
Hap.— Rather uent in the low forests, from the southern base of the 
i Yomah do + Pesnethns-Ti. Nov.-Jan.; Fr. March.—l.—SS.=As- 
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