Crqton biaceous(kro'ton). plants. 1. 2

A Ricinus genus of euphorcommunis. C. cascarilla. A species found in the West Indies. Though formerly a source of the cascarilla of commerce, it yields none now. Its bark is an aromatic bitter. C. eleuteria. 1. C. Sloanei. 2. Cluytia eleuteria, which furnishes the true cascarilla bark (cortex cascarillae) of commerce; a small tree indigenous to the West Indies, chiefly the Bahamas. See cascarilla. c. oil. A pale or yellowish brown viscid fixed oil expre ed from the seeds of C. tiglhim, of faint odor and hot and acrid taste. It contains croton oleic oil. It is a drastic purgative and is chiefly used in coma and in chronic constipation. Applied externally it acts as an irritant, causing a pustular eruption [U. S. Ph., oleum tiglii; Br. Ph., oleum croton is]. List of poisons and their antidotes, see in appendix, page 938. C. tiglium. The c. plant, and the source of c. seeds, from which c. oil is expre ed, lin i mentum croton is. A liniment composed of c. oil, oil of cajeput, and rectified spirit [Br. Ph.]. oleum croton is. See c. oil [Br. Ph.]. [Gr., kroton, shrub.]