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 (3o3e often few-flowered, sepals with one prominent nerve. H. foetidum, 



> Khasia Mt3., alt 5-6000 ft., Lohh^ &c.— Distrib. S. Africa, Lower Guinea/ 



Annual. Smell remarkably foetid, like bad orange-peel. Stems 6-18 in., slender, 

 fiimple, tufted. Leaves J in., or less, rather thick, faintly pellucid-punctate. Sepals 

 e^iptic-oblong. Sti/les 4 the length of the ovary.— Probably a variety ol H, japonkum, 

 but identical with the African plant. 



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Sect. IV. Elodeineaa, Spach. Stamens definite (9), cohering for | their 

 length into 3 bundles separated by (entire) hypogynous scales. 



19. H. breviflorum, Wall, Cat 4876; stems usually simple cylindric 

 A^Aver 3 bare, flowers in 1-3 short axillary cymes. 



&IA8IA Mts., alt. 5000 ft.; Silhet, Wallich. 



sterns 14 ft. Leaves narrow elliptic, black-dotted beneath. Flowers white. Sepat^ 

 ^ery short, ovate-linear, obtuse. Anthers vesicular-apiculate. Stxjles | the length of 

 ine ovary, recurved. Capsule J in., ovoid.— The allied H. petiolatum, Walt., of N. 

 Amenca and Japan has cylindric capsules. 



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3. CRATOXVXiOK, Blume. 



^bhrubs or trees. Leaves entire, usually papery. Inflorescence axillary or, 

 C^°^ ' ^y^^^^- Sepals and petals each 5. Stamens 3- or 5-adelpbo«s, with 

 s^r ^yPpSjnous glands alternating with the bundles. Ovary 3-celled ; 

 Sf ?^?*^"'ct ; • ovules 4- oo in each cell. Capsule 3-valved.— Distkib. Tro- 

 Pical Asia, species about 12. 



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^m^' i •^^^*^*rolobus, Spach, Petals subpersistent, inappendiculate. 

 ™«?i5 3-adelphous, hypogynous ; glands more or less cucullate. 



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'eUintf ■ P**^yantJium, Korth. Verhand. Nat. Geshh. Bot. 1 75, t. 36 ; leaves 

 J*^ls eU d 1^"^' ^^^^^^ 1-3-flowered axiUary or slightly supra-axillary, 



Bori^''^ *"^ *^® Eastern Peninsula.— Distkib. China [C. hiprurnf, Philippines, 

 A glabra 



PuncULtP """^ aromatic shrab, with compressed branchlets. Leaves 1-4 m., pllucid- 

 iin whp • <• •*'^'''°"^'i beneath. Flowers h in. diara., pink. Sepals i m. long, 

 i-i"in 1 ° "'*' ^^^'Ptic, obtuse. Hupom/nous glands Bomeimw!^ ohsrMs. Capsule 

 '^ J"- long, exceeding the sepals. SeeSs 3, k 'n. lung, with an obliciue unilateral 



acutrp fS'"*'7«"w, Blume Mus. Bot. ii. 16 (sp.); leaves narrowe.i at both ends 

 . • v.. lannp.i„*.,„ ,,. _ ., , , , . Q„ Ancistrolobus hgustnnus, 



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1858, i. 383. Hypericum 

 Kurz. 



'P- mnhfif.-' ^'- ^-c- 18 (sp.). Leaves broarlly oval mostly obtuse. Ancistrobbus, 

 Aottti iv Lq ^^^^- Hypericum horriJum, Wall. Cat. 4822. Elodea, sp., Grtff. 

 • •''W. lenasaerim, Mergui, G^rtj/^Jt; Tavoy, PTaMicA. 



Wes ';;,?®'***?,"ttM. ^wrzw Jouni. Asiat. Soc. Bmg. 1872,, pt. ii. 293; 

 %erirn ,!?^'^'?l""S sessile, cymes 3-flowered in a short terminal panicle 

 B,H«^^ ^^'■'^f^^^um, FFo/;. CW. 4824. . . 



* A strub 1 ft'r*' ?^y^*^/ Pegu, Prome bills, TTaW/cA / Chittaoono, 5^. /. «* T. 

 ^"'i^c 3 in T7 -^'^^^ 3-6 in., by f -I4 in., slightly cordate, tapenng to the apex, 

 •"rdly txc^^y-^^P^Oynous glands with the reflexed margin mucronate. Capsnle ] m 



i-eeaing the calyx.—Agrees otherwise with C. polyanthum and closely alhed 



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