226 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



95. Julocroton Mart.!' — Flowers monoeeious (nearly of Croton) 

 resupinatej sepals valvate or slightly imbricate ; anterior 1, others 

 larger; posterior 2 smaller. Otlier characters of Croton. — Shrubs, 

 undershrabs or herbs ; habit, leaves, indumentum (copious) and inflo- 

 rescence of Croton. (Trop. America, iV". and S.^) 



96 ? Crotonopsis Michx.^ — Flowers monoecious (nearly of Cro- 

 ton); calyx imbricated. Male petals 5, sometimes very small or 0. 

 Stamens usually 5 (of Croton), oppositipetalous, inserted round small 

 rudiment of gynseceum. Female calyx regular or irregular. Petals 0, 

 or very minute. Germen 1-locular, 1 -ovulate; style twice or more 

 times 2-chotomous. Fruit dry membraneous, indehiscent; seed 1, 

 scantily or scarcely arillate. — Thin-stemmed herbs sprinkled with 

 glandular peltate hairs.* Leaves alternate petiolate narrow ; flowers 

 in 2 -sexual spikes ; bracts 1-florous; inferior female; others male. 

 Other characters of Croton. (Warm N. America.^) 



97 ? Eremocarpus Benth.^ — Flowers monoecious (nearly of 

 Croton) apetalous ; stamens 5-7 (of Croton). Female calyx 0. Ger- 

 men 1-locular, ] -ovulate; style simple slender, subulate stigma- 

 tiferous at apex. Fruit capsular, 2-valved, 1-spermous. Other cha- 

 racters of Croton. — Annual graveolens herbs sprinkled everywhere 

 with stellate hairs or rigid hyaline bristles ; branches 2, 3-choto- 

 mous patulous ; leaves opposite or falsely verticillate petiolate rhom- 

 boid, 3-plinerved ; flowers in short glomeruliform spikes at nodes ; 

 female inferior or intermixed few. [California.'^) 



1 Serb. m.Bias. 119.— Kl. in Eriehs. Arch. — H. Bn. Euphorb. 380, t. 12, fig. 23-27.— M. 



(1841), i. 193.— Endl. Qeii. n. 5828.— H. Bn. Aeg. Prodr. 707.— Friesia Spreng. Syst. 760. 



Euphorb. 374.— M. Arg. Frodr. 700.^Setero- —Zeptemon Eapin. in N.-Ywh.Med. Repos. ii. 



TuEOz. in Hull. Mosc. (1843), 61 j in v. 350 (ex Endl.) 



Fhra (1844), 121. — Endi,. Gen. Suppl. t. 91. — * Whence silvery-lepidote. 



Ccntandra Kaest. Fl. Columb. 177, t. 88. = Spec. 1, 2. W. Spec. iv. 380.,— Puesh, Fl. 



^ Spec, ad 15. Lamk. Diet. ii. 214 {Croton). — Amer. Sept. i. 206.— A. Gray, Man. 392. — 



Spreng. Syst. ii. 874 {Croton). — Vellos. Fl. H-eck, £ot. 2f. and M. Stat. SIO. 



Flum. X. t. 65, 66 {Crotmt). — Schlechtl, in ' Voy. Sulph. Hot. 53, t. 26. — Endl. Gen. u. 



Linnma, vii. 380 {Croton); xix. 245.— Kl. PL 68622.— H. Bn. ,E!(pAo»-J. 381.— M. Arg. Pro*-. 



Meyen. in Nov. Act. Nat. Cm: xix. Suppl. 1, 708, 



417. — H. Bn. in Adansonia, iv. 367. ' Spec. 1. E. setigerus Benth. loc. cit. — Lindl. 



' PI. Bor.-Amer. ii. 185, t. 46. — A. Juss. Veg. Kingd. 276, fig. 191. — Croton setigerus 



. 31, t. 8, fig. 27.— Endl. Gen. n. 5826. Hook. Fl. Bor.-Amer. ii. 141. 



