56 
t . .. . - „ tairv fl 0W ers in interrupted tufts along the racemes, the female with few bracts and 
the 3 rounded cocci strigose, a central column present in the middle. Mull. DC. xv. 78 . 
® - Qthers ; 6, one of the glands mixed with the anthers ; 7, female flowers 2-3 styles, 
ertical section of the ovary ; 10, transverse section ; 11, fruit i 12, fruit, the cocci 
Muller as having fewer stamens. The drawing repi 
flowers showing 30 stamens and 3 or 4 sepals j 5, a 
8, the gland or petal removed from the same ; 9, i 
fallen off, showing the oentral column. 
PLATE CCXXXI. 
MALLOTUS DJSTANS. (Wall.) A shrub often singling but sometimes a small tree young branehes'petioles end in- 
branaeeoqo 8-Umed «P to te ther moret hanaloo^g j ^ ^ far „i.hed at the base on the upper side with 2-6 large 
or obscurely toothed mo ^ V* ^ stellate-pubescent and often minutely and inconspicuously ameo-punc- 
black glands, in age glabrous above, beneath wftly an 7 J ^ ^ ^ dr00ping 3 . 12 fl„„ e red, flowers distant 
Stry'o^dioele'lbo^" linte long, elongating in fruit to 6-9 lines, calyx 3-5-parted, no dick, ovary densely and softly stellate 
tomentoae,»*a ! lnbtend^°^°a ^U°bS “ 
distant sessile heads along the rachis, the beads each bearing* i u “°" e 
disk. Stamens about 45. DC. Prod. xv. 976. Croton dtstana. Wall. TW-A. 
Tinnevelly near.Courtallam, very abnndant on the Singampntty hills, south of Courtallum, 1000-2000 feet. 
PLATE COXXXII. 
CBOTON BETICBLATUM. (Wall.) A shrub 3-5 feet, monmoious, young branches and young parts densely ferrnginou., 
... . „ „ elllte acale8 leavea submembranaceoue ovato to oblongo laoeeolate acnminato quite entire or nearly so at margins, m ag. 
rlme^ 2 tflLL»te glaCi receptacle viUous, the female flowers 2-3 times larger than the male, the hypogynoua disk , 
segments, stamens 20, 61 ■> ^ ” eacll 2 . cle£t with the divisions again bifld, the stigmas or arms Ironcate rigid glabrous | 
. .« _ia. TDifVi holnho.se 6 liti 
glabrous repai- 7 . . . . fr , life the cuds ule ferruginous with scales subgloOose 0 lines long dj auous me 
Wtb 0,at0 se7btewn moto”l"«f. im-B.-.-DC. Prod. xv. 680. Croton bypoleucos Dak. in Hook. Joum. »J Dot. 1853 
with scales subglobose 6 lines long by about the i 
breadth. 
m III. p. 123. 
sts up to 3-4000 feet elevation. In the analysis, fig. 1 is a fruit life size j 2, one of j 
b seed j 3, the seed ; 4 shows the central column from round which the 3 cocci have j 
PLATE CCXXXIII. 
GRAMINEJE. 
OxYTENANTHERA MONOSTIGMA. (Bedd.) A largo unarmed reed, culms-? leaves 8-10 inches long by 1-1} broad 
lanceolate rounded or somewhat attenuated at the base, setaeeo-acnminate at the apex, glabrous except minute asperons recurved 
pTinte at or near the margin (sensible to tli, touch but not visible without the lens), primary veins 6-8 on each aide. Sheaths striated 
glabrous, inflorescence terminal in very eloael, approximated dense globular beads about 2 inches in diameter, spikeleta very nnmerote 
perfectly gl.broua about 1 inch long and very narrow, 2-flowared, via, one empty palea above the 2 unequal glumea and 1 terming 
bipftleaceous floret, lower palea very glabrous andebining with glabrous margins, apsx much hardened and terminating m along 
