Hypericum.] xxi. hypericine^ (olivee). 157 



nearly to the shortly 5 -fid apex. Seeds oblong-cylindrical, shortly apiculate 

 at each end. ' 



Nile Land. Abyssinia, in rocky mountainous places, Schimper! Petit! 



Var. $. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, 2£ in. by 1 in. Flowers in a broad cyme. 



Ankober, Abyssinia, Roth ! 



Var. 7 . Sepals 2-3 lines. Petals broader. 



Lower Guinea. Huilla, Angola, Br. Welwitsch ! ' 



Distinguished by its small sepals. 



7. H. gnidiaefolium, Rich. Ft. Jbyss. i. 98. A glabrous shrub with 

 terete extremities. Leaves approximate, oval-lanceolate, acute, narrowed 

 sughtly to the base, glabrous, rather glaucous beneath, with numerous trans- 

 lucent, often linear glands, 1-1| in. long, \~\ in. broad, rarely larger on the 

 flowering branches. Flowers about 1£ in. across in 3-5-flowered terminal 

 yines. Sepals, outer ovate, inner broadly oval, subacute or rather obtuse, 

 vitu or without dark intramarginal immersed glands ; the inner about 4 

 ines long. Petals narrow oval. Styles 5, united three-fourths of their length 

 0r rather more. 



Nile Land. Abyssinia, Dillon and Petit ! 



a. mysorense, Wt. and Am., of India, is closely allied, but generally has the stamens 

 "early or quite free. 



8- H. chrysostictum, Webb, Frag. Fl. Mhiop. 54. Virgate glabrous 



undershrub ; extremities slender, ancipitous. Leaves sessile, oblong, obtuse, 



apiculate, glabrous; margin slightly crisped, subrevolute. Cymes few- 



owered. Sepals linear- oblong, narrowed above, mucronulate, glabrous, one- 



' rc * as long as the narrow petals. Ovary ovoid, glabrous, reticulate with 



Whlte Hues. Styles 3, divaricate. 



N»le Land. Sennar? (Schweinf. et Asch. Enum.). 

 nave not seen a specimen. 



2- ENDODESMIA, Benth. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. 166. 



Sepals 5. Petals 5, glabrous or nearly so, contorted in aestivation. Sta- 

 mens y ery numerous, in 5 phalanges, which are connate in a cylindrical 

 ne ?rly entire or 5-toothed tube, closely lined with the subsessile or stipitate, 

 apiculate anthers. Pistil monocarpellary ; ovary 1-celled, with a single pen- 

 jto ous ovary, narrowed into the subulate-filiform style. Fruit drupaceous, 

 "dehiscent with a rather thin pericarp. Seed pendulous, exalbuminous ; 

 ^ ol yledons oblong, plano-convex, thick and fleshy ; radicle minute— A shrub 

 r small tree. Leaves coriaceous, opposite, without a connecting inter- 

 Petiolar line, entire, acuminate, glabrous, impunctate, with transverse, closely 

 Parallel lateral veins. Flowers yellow, in terminal corymbose cymes. 



ut a single species is known, confined to equatorial W. Africa. 



1- E. calophylloides, Benth. in Gen. PL i. 166. Branches terete, 



■nooth, with an evanescent glaucous bloom. Leaves oval- or lanceolatc- 



)0, 'g, with a slender, rather obtuse, acumen, 2-3£in. long, |-U in. broad ; 



Jetl °le about 2 lines. Flowers about £ in. whet, expanded, on pedicels at 



