hypericine^:. in 



A yellow, resinous juice occurs in this Order, and the pellucid dots of the leaves contain 

 ethereal oil. 



1. MARILA, Sw. 



Sepals 4-5. Petals as many, imbricative. Stamens oo : anthers erect, with a terminal 

 gland. Style single, short, or none. Capsule 4(-3) -celled, septicidal and loculicidal -. seeds 

 indefinite, margined. — Woody plants; leaves opposite, petioled, dotted: veins costale, joined 

 by arches near the margin ; flowers in terminal and axillary racemiform cymes : bracts 

 abortive ; pedicels long, spreading. 



1 . M. racemosa, Sw. Glabrous ; leaves oblong-lanceolate, dotted with pellucid lines 

 and points; racemes simple ; sepals 5, shortly exceeded by the petals ; anthers oblong ; style 

 very short : stigma capitate ; capsule siliquiform, incurved : seeds ciliate, chiefly at both 

 ends. — Sw. Fl. t. 19: anal. Mem. Mus. 16. t. 17 A. — Bonnetia, Sw. Capparis commu- 

 tata, Sieb., Mart. 304 !— A shrub, 15'-20' high ; leaves 10"-4" long, 3"-l" broad, pointed 

 at both ends ; pedicels 6'", sepals 4'" long ; petals greenish-white. — Hab. S. Kitts, Mont- 

 serrat, Dominica !, Imr.; S. Vincent !, Guild. ; Trinidad ! 



2. M. grandiflora, Gr. (n. sp.). Branchlets and peduncles flattened, rusty with 

 short down, or glabrate ; leaves oblong, glabrous, dotted with pellucid points, without lines; 

 racemes lax, somewhat compound below ; sepals 4-5, rusty-tomentose externally ; anthers 

 linear ; style none : stigma 4-globose ; capsule oblong : seeds fringed with very short or ob- 

 solete hairs on the margin. — Leaves 18" long, 5" broad, bluntish at the base, tapering 

 towards the obtusely pointleted top : primary veins prominent beneath, 5"'-6'" distant from 

 each other: petiole 1" long ; pedicels 1"-1£" long, subreflexed ; sepals 5"'-6"' long, ovate, 

 exterior bluntish, interior very blunt, exceeded by the stamens ; petals caducous, as long as 

 the sepals in the bud ; stamens very numerous : anthers narrow, 2|'"-3'" long, about i'" 

 broad, with a minute, whitish, terminal gland ; ovary originally unilocular, with four pla- 

 centiferous laminas, which soon cohere in the axis : stigma sessile ; capsule 4-valved : the 

 valves at length reflexed from the central, 4-lobed, placentiferous column, which exceeds the 

 persistent stamens : seeds oblong, minute, margined with a very narrow membrane. — Hab. 

 Trinidad!, Or. 



2. VISMIA, Vand. 



Sepals 5-4. Petals as many, villous within. Stamens oo, 5-adelphous, the bundles 

 hairy, alternating with hypogynous scales : anthers roundish, incumbent. Styles 5, distinct. 

 Pericarp baccate, 5-celled : seeds indefinite. — Woody plants ; leaves opposite ; cymes corym- 

 biform or paniculate, terminal and axillary ; petals dotted with black glands. 



3. V. ferruginea, Kth. Branchlets tetragonal, rusty-tomentose, at length glabrate; 

 leaves ovate-oblong or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate or pointed, usually rounded or subcor- 

 date at the base, with a minute, evanescent, rusty down and glandular dots beneath, devoid 

 of pellucid points : primary veins costate, prominent beneath ; cymes rusty-tomentose, co- 

 rymbiform ; buds obovate-globose ; sepals rusty-tomentose externally, ovate, bluntish, half 

 the length of the petals ; hypogynous scales roundish, short. — V. macrophylla, Salzm. PI. 

 Bah.! : Kunth's homonym and V. latifolia, Kth. (non Chois.), are probably mere forms of 

 the same. V. angusta, Miq.: our narrow -leaved form. V. panamensis, Wp.l (formerly 

 referred erroneously to V. guianensis, Aubl.). — A shrub or low tree; leaves petioled, 12"-3" 

 long, 3i"-l" broad : petiole 6"'-8'" long, rusty-puberulous ; petals 4'" long, greenish-white. 

 —Hab. S. Vincent!, Guild.; Trinidad!; [Panama! to Brazil!]. 



4. V. cayennensis, Pers. Glabrous ; branchlets cylindrical ; leaves elliptical or ellip- 

 tical-lanceolate, pointed at both ends, with black dots beneath, devoid of pellucid points : 

 veins reticulated ; cymes few-flowered, corymbiform; buds globose; sepals glabrous, ovate, 

 bluntish, half the length of the petals ; hypogynous scales oblong, pubescent. —Hypericum, 

 L. — A low tree, or shrub, about 20' high; leaves petioled, 5"-3" long, 24"-l" broad: 

 petiole 4"'-2'" long ; petals 4'" long. — Hab. Trinidad !, Lockh., Cr., common in dry 

 grounds ; [Guiana !, equatorial Brazil !]. 



3. ASCYRUM, L. 



Sepals 6, exterior small, distant. Petals 4, contorted. Stamens oo, subdistinct: anthers 



