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у HYPERICUM egypticum. | | 
Egyptian St. John’ s-wort. 
POLYADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. HyrERICA. Jussieu gen, 954. 
^, HYPERICUM. Cal. 5-partitus sequalis. Pet. 5. Stam. variè poly- 
adelpha. Styli 3 aut 5 aut rariùs 2; stigmata totidem. Caps. (bacca in 
Androsæmo) loculis et valvis totidem. Herbe aut frutices suffruticesves 
Caules cylindracei aut ancipites aut 4-goni; folia opposita sep? ‘punctato- 
pellucida ; flores ositi nonnunquàm cymosi, plerümque corymbosi pedun- 
culis sepe trichotomis 3-floris terminalibus aut et Deillaribus. um. o 
М А Dio, Trigyna, calycibus integerrimis. 
Н. г, ‚plicum floribus trigynis, nectariis petalorum lanceolatis, caulibus 
suffruticosis compressis. Linn. sp. рі. 2. 1108. 
Hypericum regypticum. . Linn. ameen. acad. 8. 323. tab. 8. fig. 8. Hort. 
Kew. 8. 105. ed. 2. 4. 429. Lamarck encyc. 4. 160. Willd. sp. pl. 3, 
1467. ` . . 
- Fruticulus erectus subpedalis, à de basi brachiato-ramosissimus, flori- 
bundus ; rami teretes patuli, juniores. toti foliati ramulisque solitariis brevibus 
azillaribus: subsexfoliatis apice 'unifioris" uno terminali decussato-paniculati. 
Folia sessilia, decussata, patentia, coriaceo-crassa, glauco-pruinata, subbili~ 
nearia, ovato-elliptica, acuta, plana, avenia, non pellucido-punciata, inter- 
nodiis sublongiora. Flores parvuli, erecti, solitarii, terminales, lutei. Calyx 
inter bracteas foliaceas 2 oppositas ipsi duplo breviores sessilis, viridi-lutestens, 
sepius rubore tinctus, connivent, wqualis unguibus petalorum, persistens; 
fokola ovata, convexa, acutula. integerrima, duriuscula. Cor, campanulata, 
(баға, pellucido-lineata vix $ partem uncia: alta; pet. spathulato-oblonga, 
inferno іп tubum conniventia supernè recurvo-patentia, obtusa, sguámuld 
lineari-oblongá ob marginis attenuati inflectionem concaod uniuscujus ungui 
longitudinaliler intús adnatá. Staminum phalanges 3, erecta, tubo param 
longiores, pede tubuloso compresso pallido suprà in filamenta distincta ipsi 
breviora secedente : anth. subrotunde, flava, introverse. Pistillum pallidum, 
pedibus stamineis brevius, ovato-oblongum, trilobo-trigonum angulis rotunda- 
tis; styli 8 loborum totidem rostratim continui, brevissimi, replicati, stigma- 
tibus totidem papuloso-convezis parùm latioribus terminati. Corpuscula 8 
intra calycem hypogyna subrotunda lutea lobos germinis basi intercipientia. 
Defloratá corolla arcte connivet calyz. 
In Willdenow's Species Plantarum, in the late edition 
of the Hortus Kewensis, and indeed in all the recent enu- 
merations of plants, this species has been deposited іп a 
section of the genus intended for those with serrately' and 
glandularly edged bractes and calyx, while it really belongs 
to that which comprises such species as have bractes 
and calyx with a glandless and entire edge: a mistake 
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