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XXII. HYPERiCiNE^. (W. T. Tliiselton Dyer.) [Hypermm. 



simple, leaves oblong or ovate acute firm, 

 glandular-striate. H. adenophorum, Walt Cat. 4812. 



Prodr. 219. 



sepals with long teeth, petals 



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KuAsiA Mt8., alt. 4-6000 ft. ; Assam and Birma, Griffith. ^ ^ * 



Stems 1-2 ft., stolonilerous, glabrous, terete. Leaves 1-1^ in.,^ approximate, stem- 



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pamcuiaie ; nowers % m. csej^acs | m., lanceoiaTe, acme, wuu uiaoa. iiinaij^"*&-"-- 

 glands. Felals exceeding the calyx. Styles 3, J in., at leabt twice the length of the 

 ovary, spreading, not exceedini< the stamens. Capsule J in. — A very variable plant, 

 allied to the European H. movtanum, L., which is puberulous with a denser cyme and 

 shorter sepaiine teeth. H, intermedmm, Steud., of Abyssinia and Asia Minor, has 

 shorter teeth but a very open cyme. 



15. H. napaulense, Clioisij in DO. Prodr. i. 552; stems weak with 

 numerous branches, leaves ovate to ovate-lanceolate obtuse ^^^^^^ .^^P^^ 

 with short teeth, petals eglandular or nearly so. H. pallens, Don Prodr. 'p!^. 

 H. setosura. Wall Cat, 4814. H. Wightianum, WalL Cat. 4010; IF. *4- 

 Prodr, 99 ; Wight III i. 43.* 



Temperate Himalaya; from Sikkim, alt. 10-12,000 ft. to Kashmir, alt. 7-8000 ft.; 

 Birma, Griffith. — Western Peninsula, Nilghiri and Pulney Mts., Wight, ^^- ^ ^ . 



Stems slender, diffuse or prostrate, cylindric, obscurely 2-edged. Leaves ^-a ^^-t 

 sessile and stem-clasping, or slightly petioled, glaucous beneath and closely pimci • 

 punctate. Cymes few-flowered, loose ; flowers ^ in. Sepals lanceolate. Fetals ionge 

 than the calyx. Styles J in., about equaUing the ovary, exceeding the stamens, tap^ 

 sule 4 in.— Perhaps only a variety of If. elodeoides. 



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elliptic or ovate, sepals dark-glandular-striate, petals linear twice the lengiu 

 of tlie sepals, styles half the length of the ovary. 



SiKKiM Himalaya; Lacheu and Lachoonfr Valleys, alt. 11-12,000 ft.. /.-O.-ff- ' 



^ . m. Leaves f in., sessile, obtuse, pei- 



lucid striate-punctate, with a few black marginal dots beneath. Cymes 1-3-nowere , 

 flowers with a pair of glandular fringed bracts. Sepals linear-lanceolate. Sylei ^i •» 

 equalling the stamens. Capsule \ in., ovoid. 



Petofe persistent. SUif^''^ 



Sect. III. Brathydineae, Spach. Sepals 5, 

 connate at the base. Ovary 1-celled. 



17, 



japonicum, Thunh. Fl. Jap. 295, t. 31 ; stems diffuse or asc 



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ing, leaves 3-nerved. cyme dichotomous efongated! sepals 3-nerved. , V\f - 

 Cat. 4811. Royle III. t. 24. H. pusillum, Olwi^y in DO Prodr. l ^ 

 Brathys nepalensis, Blume Mus. Bot. ii, 19. H. calycatum, Jacq. Herb. (sep<uo 

 fuliaceous). 



Temperate and Subtropical Hihalaya, from Sikkim to Garwhal; alt. ^-^^^^^j 

 Khasia Mts. ; AasAM, Silhet, Birma ; Eastern and Western Peninsula and i^»* 



DiSTRiB. New Zealand, Australia, Japan, China, Java. 

 Annual, ^ems 1-15 in., tufted or prostrate, glabrous, 4-angled. 

 less, stem-clasping, oval or ovate, pellucid-punctate. Flowers \ 



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BratU ^n^ sepals linear-lanceolate, entire, acute, glandular and pehucid-p"DCt ^^ 

 the apex. Petals equalling the calyx. Styles i the length of the ovary. ^?P^J^Ii 



Seeds ribbed and transversely striate.— IT, humifitsum is distinguished by its 

 steins, 3 celled ovary, and leaves with intra-marginal black dots. 



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 leaves approximate below appressed with revolute maroins Mxerveuj J 



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