Croton. | EUPHORBIACE. 375 
stellate hairs; seeds nearly 2 lin. long, smooth, longitudinally 
whitish and brownish variegated. 
Has.—Not uncommon in the forests along the sea-coast of the Andamans.— 
Fl. Fr. Apr.-May.—l. (?). 
8. C. flocculosus, Kz.—An evergreen (?) tree (20—25 + 8—10+ 
2—3), the young parts covered with a dense, soft, fugaceous, white 
or yellowish stellate tomentum ; leaves more or less cordate-ovate, 
crenatures, membranous, palmately 5-nerved at the base, while 
young densely stellate-floccose, glabrescent above or on both sides ; 
capsules in terminal racemes, pedicelled, nodding, almost globular, 
and obsoletely 3-angular, the size of a large pea, crustaceous, 
densely and softly greyish-stellate-tomentose ; seeds about 2 lin. 
long, elliptically oblong, smooth, with rounded back. 
Hazs.—Rather rare in the swamp forests of the Irrawaddi alluvium from 
Prome to the Irrawaddi zone of Pegu.—Fr. Oct.—s.—SS.—=All. 
9. C. caudatus, Geisel.—A large scandent shrub, the younger 
parts scurfy-strigose from stellate bristly hairs; leaves from oval 
and ovate to oblong-ovate, cordate rounded or almost truncate at 
the stipitately 2-¢landed base, on a stellately rough petiole }-1 im. 
long, shortly and rather abruptly acuminate, rigidly membranous, 
2-3 in. long, more or less crenate-serrate, and often furnished with 
stalked glands in the crenatures, rough on both sides, while young 
densely stellate-hispid beneath, finally only sprinkled with tuber- 
cled-stellate, minute, stiff hairs, the transverse net-veination promi- 
nent ; flowers small, dull-yellowish green, the females shortly and 
thick-pedicelled, the males on rather slender stellate-pubescent 
pedicels up to 2 lin. long, solitary or by 2 or 3 to each bract, and 
forming rather long stellate-pubescent racemes at the end of the 
branchlets; calyx greyish stellate-pubescent outside, glabrous or 
nearly so within ; petals of the males rather shorter than the sepals, 
woolly along the margins ; filaments long white-pilose at the base ; 
female calyx a little enlarging, the sepals almost 3-ribbed ; ovary 
densely tawny-stellate-hispid, the styles deeply 2-cleft; capsules 
large, woody, the size of a bullet or pigeon’s egg, obscurely 3- 
cornered, 3-coceous, covered _ a rei fe ome ; ; ate, 
somewhat scur h tomentum ; more $ in. long, 
transversely wet dees furrowed on the flattened back, smooth 
and glossy. ° 
Var. 1, caudatus proper: capsules the size of a bullet or some- 
what larger ; seeds quite glabrous. 
