444 R. T. BAKER. 
A NEW CROTON FROM NEW SOUTH WALKHS. 
By R. T. BAKER, F.L.S., 
Curator, Technological Museum, Sydney. 
[Read before the Royal Society of N. 8S. Wales, December 2, 1914. | 
CROTON MAIDENI, sp. nov. 
Systematic.—A bushy shrub from seven to nine feet high; 
diameter of largest known tree one and three-quarters to 
two inches, inflorescence and underside of the leaves silvery- 
white, with close stellate tomentum; terminal branchlets 
mostly quadchotomous, only occasionally trichotomous. 
Leaves alternate, only in a few instances opposite, small, 
narrow, lanceolate, one to one and a half, rarely two inches 
long, one-eighth to one-quarter of an inch wide, on a 
petiole mostly under two, rarely three lines long, occas- 
ionally with a few distant teeth, mostly entire, obtusely 
acuminate, sbortly rounded and very slightly peltate ; 
midrib on underside very prominent, veins quite obscured; 
glands at the top of the petiole very small; underside of leaf 
with a close silvery stellate tomentum, upper surface green 
with sparsely scattered, minute stellate hairs. 
Racemes one to two inches long, flowers loosely disposed 
or distant, upper ones all males with one, two or three 
females at the base. Male calyx segments one line long, 
valvate, petals about the same length but half as broad; 
ciliate. Female calyx segments a little longer. Stamens 
nine to eleven. Styles three, divided into three or four 
branches of irregular length, and some bifurcated near the 
top. Capsule trilocular, rather larger than broad, about 
three lines long, with scattered stellate hairs. Seeds 
smooth or slightly muricate. 
