168 



cells Bomewhat oblique : ovary slightly tomentose : styles deeply 

 2-cleft : seeds rough. 



Var. a. Eottleei. — Annual or perennial: leaves broadly 

 triangular-ovate, somewhat 3-lobed or repand : bracts small : fruc- 

 tiferous pedicels a little exceeding the capsule. — Spreng. Syst. III. 

 p. 850. — 0. Moluccanus, Willd. — C. hastatus, Burm. t. Q^.fig. I. 

 — 0. Burmanni, Spreng. I. c. 



Peninsula. 



Var. h. GENtHNA. — ^Annual or perennial : whole plant clothed 

 with a whitish or somewhat tawny thick hairy covering : leaves 

 broadly ovate, somewhat 3-lobed, more or less woolly : bracts 

 small : fructiferous pedicels a little exceeding the capsule. — Croton 

 plicatus, Vahl. — C. pUcata, Adr. Juss. Muph. p. 28. 



Malabar. Carnatic. Mysore. 



Var. c. PEOSTEATA. — Procumbeut : leaves ovate, oblique at the 

 base, repand, scarcely 3-lobed : lowest bracts of the racemes leafy : 

 fructiferous pedicels at length 2 — 3 times exceeding the capsules. — 

 Croton plicatum, Boxb. {not Vahl.). — 0. tinctorium, £urm. fior. 

 t. G2.Jig.2. — 0. asper, Koen. ex Boxl. I.e. — Crozophora pro- 

 strata, Bale, Bonib.Jlor.p. 233. 



Concans. 



(2) C. OBLiQTTA. {A3/r. Joss.) 



Ident. Adr. Juss. Tent. Euph. p. 28.— Dec. 1. c. p. 749. 



Syn. Croton obliquus, FaAZ. — C. [ oblongifoHus, Delile More 

 d'Egypte p. 139. t. 51. fig. I. — Crozophora oblongifolia, Adr. 

 Juss. I. c. 



Spec. Chae. Shrub : all the parts densely covered with a 

 flocculent, more or less rufescent hairy wool, except the ovary : 

 male petals obovate-lanceolate, entire, females linear, equalling 

 the calyx : leaves as in the preceding : ovary bearing scales : styles 

 2-cleft. 



Northern India. 



GENTJS XXIII. STMPHYLLIA. 

 Itloncecia Pentandria. Sex: 



Deriv. From Syn, together, and Phyllon, a leaf; the flowers 

 are mixed with the leaves. 



GrEN. Chae. Male calyx valvate, female imbricated : petals and 

 disc of either sex none : stamens alternating with the sepals and 

 equal in number: anthers 2-cleft, fixed by the base, cells below 

 long free among themselves, equal : cells of the ovary 1-ovuled : 

 fruit capsular. — Shrubs, subdichotomously branched : leaves -col- 

 lected at the tops of the branches, subverticelled or equally distant 

 in the branchlets, minutely stipulate, almost sessile, minutely den- 

 ticulate or entire, beneath not maculately glandular : flowers 



