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CROTON VAR1EGATUM MULTICOLOR. 
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to 9 in., are very irregular in shape, oblong spathulate, tapering at the base, and 
irregularly oonstricted in the centre,” with the point curiously dilated and twisted. 
Croton variegatum multicolor. 
w The young leaves,” they go on to say, u are of a light green blotched with 
yellow, but turning with age on the puckered upper surface into a glossy green, and 
irregularly blotched with yellow, reddish yellow, and red, the mid-rib crimson, the 
