A NEW CROTON FROM NEW SOUTH WALES. 445. 
[Fruticosus 8’ - 12’ saltem, tenui, cortice laevi, aroma- 
ticissimo. Folia, lanceolata, longitudine 2—5cm., latitudine 
5-10 mm., varientia aut subcoriacea aut coriacea, supra 
glabrata pauca stellaripiti, ferrugina, subtus stellari- 
tomentella argentea; glandulae 2 basales sessiles minutis- 
simae. Nerviae invisiblises. Ramuli tenues et petioli et 
rachis inflorescentiae, pilis stellaris. Calcyces, fem. accre- 
sentes 1-3 in basi rachium, 5 lobae glabrae; ovarii parce 
stellari-pili; stylis 3 partitis lacinus gracilibus; capsulae 
8 mm. longae 6 —7 mm. latae tridymae, stellato-puberulae. | 
Habitat.—The highest point between Angledool and 
Queensland border, known as ‘“‘Guthrie’s Mountain’’ (now 
Read’s Mine). About twenty feet high above the black 
soil plains. 
This Croton has quite a different facies from that of any 
described in the section given by Bentham in his ‘* Flora 
Australiensis,’’ vI, p.124,—"‘leaves densely clothed on the 
underside with stellate silvery tomentosum.”’ 
It differs amongst other points more especially from C. 
Shultzii and C. insularis, in its dwarf habit, stigmatic 
divisions and in its leaves. From C. opponens in the dis- 
positions of its leaves, and from C. phebalioides in that it 
does not resemble a Phebalium. The leaves, bark and 
timber are quite distinct from that species, which now 
includes C. stigmatosus. It isashrub and with whip-stick 
stem, as against the tree growth of that species. In C. 
phebalioides the basal glands of the leaf blade are much 
more prominent than in this species, which may be described 
as quite rudimentary, and only conspicuous with a pocket 
lens. 
The leaf veins are quite obscured in the leaf texture and 
not penniveined as obtains in the two latter species, nor 
are the leaves membraneous. Systematically it might be 
placed between C. phebalioides and C. opponens. 
