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subglabrous. the bracts and flowers more or less hairy, flowers in interrupted tufts along the racemes, the female with few bracts and 
1 -flowered, the male with numerous bracts and several flowers, perianth or calyx 3-4 parted, the female with 3-4 narrow spathulate 
slightly hairy glands (or petals 1) shorter than the sepals, ovary hairy 2-3 cells, styles 2-3 much lacerate, the male with about 30-32 
stamens mixed with clavate very small glands the apices of which are furnished with 2-3 long bristles, capsule about 3 lines diameter, 
the 3 rounded cocci strigose, a central column present in the middle. Hull. DC. xv. 782. 
Anamallays and Tinnevelly hills up to 3000 feet. My specimens of the Ceylon plant, named C. longifolium by Thwaites and 
C, oligandrum by Muller, appear to be quite the same ; they are however iu very young bud as far as the male goes, and it is described by 
Muller as having fewer stamens. The drawing represents a female plant :— 1, is a tuft from the male raceme ; 2, a male bract; 3-4, male 
flowers showing 30 stamens and 3 or 4 sepals ; 5, anthers ; 6, one of the glands mixed with the anthers ; 7, female flowers 2 3 styles; 
8, the gland or petal removed from the same ; 9, vertical section of the ovary ; 10, transverse section ; 11, fruit ; 12, fruit, the cocci 
fallen off, showing the central column. 
PLATE CCXXXI. 
MALLOTUS DISTANS. (Wall.) A shrub often straggling but sometimes a small tree, young branches petioles and in' 
florescence densely clothed with short soft greenish stellate tomentum, petioles opposite very unequal f-2£ inches long, leaves mem¬ 
branaceous 3-nerved up to rather more than a foot long by 7 inches broad but generally smaller, broad ovate or rhomboido-ovate entire 
or obscurely toothed acute or acuminate, not peltate or very slightly so and furnished at the base on the upper side with 2-6 large 
black glands, in age glabrous above, beneath softly and densely stellato-pubescent and often minutely and inconspicuously aureo-puuc- 
ticulate, bracts linear, female racemes from shorter to as long or longer than the leaves slender drooping 3-12 flowered, flowers distant 
solitary on pedicels about 3 lines long, elongating in fruit to 6-9 lines, calyx 3-5-parted, no disk, ovary densely and softly stellato- 
tomentose, capsule unarmed 3-lobed 4-6 lines in diameter stellately-fulvous. Male spikes more or less elongate, the flowers in interrupted 
distant sessile heads along the rachis, the heads each bearing 4-10 flowers and subtended by a single bract, calyx as in the female, no 
disk. Stamens about 45. DC. Prod. xv. 976. Croton distans, Wall. 777 2-A. 
Tinnevelly near Courtallum, very abundant on the Singamputty hills, south of Courtallum, 10UO-2000 feet. 
PLATE CCXXXII. 
Croton reticulatum. (Wall.) a shrub 3-5 feet, monsecious, young branches and young parts densely ferruginous 
with brown stellate scales, leaves submembranaceous ovato to- oblongo-lanceolate acuminate quite entire or nearly so at margins, in age 
glabrous above, silvery-white beneath with scales, up to 8 inches long by 2^ broad, but usually smaller, petioles up to 1 inch furnished 
at their very apex with 2 (rarely 4) pedicelled clavate glands. Stipules small subulate deciduous, racemes terminal or from the upper 
axils up to 3-4 inches long many flowered, a few of the lower flowers female the others all male, all silvery-white, bracts inconspicuous, 
male flowers clustered about 1 line in diameter on short pedicels, the petals oblong ciliate and often lanate much larger than the calycine 
segments, stamens 15-20, filaments glabrous, receptacle villous, the female flowers 2-3 times larger than the male, the hypogynous disk 
glabrous repaudo-crenate or sub 5-lobed, styles 3, each 2-cleft with the divisions agaiu bifid, the stigmas or arms truncate rigid glabrous 
subin voluto-incurved, calyx increasing when iu fruit, the capsule ferruginous with scales subglobose 6 lines long by about the same 
breadth. Seed brown mottled. Wall. cat. 7724-A. ;— DC. Prod. xv. 580. Croton hypoleucos Dalz. in Book. Journ. of Pot. 1853 
Vol. III. p. 123. 
Common in all our western moist forests up to 3-4000 feet elevation. In the analysis, fig. 1 is a fruit life size ; 2, one of 
the cocci inner face, just burst and shewiug the seed ; 3, the seed; 4 shows the central column from round which the 3 cocci have 
fallen off. 
plate CCXXXIII. 
GRAMINEiE. 
OxYTENANTHERA MONOSTIGMA. (Bedd.) A large unarmed reed, culms—? leaves 8-10 inches long by 1-H broad 
lanceolate rounded or somewhat attenuated at the base, setaceo-acuminate at the apex, glabrous except minute asperous recurved 
points at or near the margin (sensible to the touch but not visible without the lens), primary veins 6-8 on each side. Sheaths striated 
glabrous, inflorescence terminal in very closely approximated dense globular heads about 2 inches in diameter, spikelets very numerous 
perfectly glabrous about 1 inch long and very narrow, 2 -flowered, viz, one empty palea above the 2 unequal glumes and 1 terminal 
bipaleaceous floret, lower palea very glabrous and shining with glabrous margins, apex much hardened and terminating in a long 
