§“■^> 371 ? 
Croton arenarlus sp, nov. 
Croton arenarius sp, nov. Plant a pp a r e ntly pers n ni al, 3-4 dm. high, 
densely stellate-pubescent, the rays long, up to 3 mm, long, and 1 or more 
of each hair spreading, giving roughly the appearance of shaggy-hirsute 
pubescence, the hairs yellowish or pale-brown; leaves alternate, petioled, 
the blades ovate, oblong-ovate to suborbicular, up to 3,5 cm, long, densely 
stellate-pubescent on both surfaces, noticeably denser on the lower surface, 
the rays appressed and one or more relatively long, crenate-dentate or more 
sharply toothed, rounded at apex and base; petioles short, 5 mm, long 
or less, stout, densely stellate-hirsute; flowers monoecious; staminate 
racemes up to 2 cm, long, usually subtended by 8 or more sessile leaves, 
long-pedunculate, the peduncles stout, stellate-hirsute, up to 4 cm, long; 
pistillate flowers in a capitate cluster of 4 or more below the staminate 
flowers, subtended by 4-several short-petioled leaves; staminate flowers with 
about 11 stamens, petals longer than the sepals, oblong, obtuse, ciliate, 
about 3 mm. long and 1 mm, broad, and with sepals triangular-acute, pubescent, 
about 2 mm, long and 1 mm, broad; pistillate flowers with petals wanting, 
sepals spatulate, stellate-hirsute, about 4 mm, long and less than 2 mm, broad, 
accrescent; styles 3, 2-cleft, up to 4 mm, long; capsules subglobose, about 
4 mm, in diameter, depressed; seeds gray, mottled with black, suborbicular, 
3-3,5 mm, in diameter, tipped with a thick caruncle. 
lype specimen No, 20376 was collected Sept, 19, 1936, in sand about 
two miles southwest of Aransas Pass, in San Patricio County, l‘exas. It differs 
from Croton glandulosus L, in being perennial instead of annual and in having 
dense stellate-hirsute pubescence throughout. 
