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ArPEXDICCLATE CItOTOXS. 
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CltOION ArriiNHICULATLS. 
APPENDICULATE CROTONS. 
a MONGST the many varieties of Croton 
—Codiccum variegatum —that sent out 
by Messrs. Veitch and Sons as C. appen- 
diculatus is one of the most remarkable on ac¬ 
count of the singular structure of its foliage. It 
does not boast the gay colours of many of its con¬ 
geners, having the leaves of an uniform green 
colour, but it presents other features in the ap- 
pendiculate leaves which will secure it admittance 
to the collections of all true lovers of plants who 
can afford accommodation for it. It is a dwarf¬ 
growing kind, of a densely-branched habit of 
growth, and clothed with abundant foliage. 
“ The leaves have a very marked peculiarity ; 
the blade or lamina is divided into two seg¬ 
ments, separated by a considerable interval; 
the segment next the petiole or base of the leaf 
is tolerably constant as to form ; Init the ter¬ 
minal one assumes an indefinite variety of 
shapes, often of a most opposite character, both 
on the same and different plants. Thus we 
find well-defined ovate, obovate, rotundate, 
oblanceolate forms, and even peltate and re- 
niform, and many modifications of them. The 
appearance presented by the entire plant, w'itli 
all these associated varieties of form, is very 
peculiar, and peculiarly interesting. IVe owe 
this variety to the enterprise of Messrs. Veitch 
and Sons, of Chelsea, who obtained a certificate 
for it from the Royal Botanic Society in 1870. 
Mr. W. Bull, of Chelsea, has introduced one 
of these appendiculate varieties, w'hich he has 
called C. plctinritus^ and notes as coming from 
the New Hebrides. It is a highly coloured 
and effective plant, the leaves a foot and a 
half long, and about an inch broad, somewhat 
irregular at the edge, and with a tendency 
toward spiral contortion. The costa is bright 
