374 EUPHORBIACER. [ Croton. 
flowers small, greenish white, on 2-3-5 lin. long greyish pubescent 
pedicels, forming greyish-scaly-puberous elongate racemes in the 
axils of the young leaves or crowded before their appearance; petals. 
and base of filaments villous ; calyx densely greyish-stellate-tomen- 
tose; ovary shortly hispid-tomentose, the styles glabrous, simply 
2-cleft ; capsules 3-coccous, the size of a pea, crustaceous, minutely 
puberulous ; seeds only about 2 lin. long. 
Has.—Rather rare in the tropical forests along the eastern slopes of the Pe 
am) < m Martaban down to Tenasserim.—Fl. March-Apr.—s.—S8S.= 
15. iLetam,. 
. C. Tiglinm, L.—Ka-na-hho.—An evergreen treelet (15—20 
+4—7+13—2%), the young shoots sprinkled with stellate hairs ; 
bark smooth, ash-coloured ; leaves oblong to ovate-lanceolate, on a 
slender glabrous petiole 1-2 in. long, obtuse or rounded at the 2- 
glanded base, 2-4 in. long, minutely and remotely repand-toothed, 
acuminate, membranous, yellowish green, adult glabrous; flowers 
small, the males on slender glabrous pedicels, solitary or by 2 or 3, 
the females larger, on short, thick, densely stellate-pubescent pedicels 
about 1-1} lin. long, solitary, both sexes forming terminal glab- 
rous or almost glabrous racemes at the end of the branchlets; male 
calyx glabrous or nearly so, the female sprinkled with stellate hairs; 
petals es white, villous ; filaments 15-20, woolly at the base ; 
ovary tawny-stellate-tomentose ; capsules oblong and obtusely 3- 
lobed, 3-coccous, 3 to nearly an inch long, almost glabrous ; seeds 
smooth, about 3 an in. long or longer, purgative. 
Hav.—Frequently cultivated as a hedge plant in villages, all over Burma 
oe Ava and Chittagong down to Tenasserim.—Fl, Sept.; Fr. C,8.—s.-S8.= 
ReMARKs.— Wood white, hard. 
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petiole 3-3 in. long, 8 to 5 in. long, sharply but minutely r : 
stellate 
stigmas short ; capsules almost globular, 3-coecous, the size of pas 
small pea, crustaceous, smooth, sparingly sprinkled with appressed- 
