Tas. 6481. 
HYPERICUM aeoyvrrracun. 
Native of N. Africa and the Levant. 
Nat. Ord. HyPEricine®.—Tribe HYPERICER. 
Genus Hypericum, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 165.) 
Hyrericum (Triadenia) egyptiacum ; fruticosum, erectum v. decumbens, glaberri- 
mum, glaucum, foliis parvis oppositis ovatis acutis enerviis coriaceis superne 
concavis subtus subcarinatis, floribus ad apices ramulorum lateralium subsessili- 
bus parvis, sepalis oblongis obtusis eglandulosis, petalis obovato-spathulatis supra 
unguem medio tuberculatis, phalangis 3 staminum glandulis hypogynis alter- 
nantibus, carpellis 3 brevibus, stylis brevissimis, ovulis paucis. 
H. egyptiacum, Linn. Amen: Acad. vol. viii. p. 323, t. 8, f.3; DC. Prodr. vol.i. 
p- 549; Bot. Reg. t. 196. 
Triadenia microphylla, et thymifolia, Spach in Ann. Se. Nat. ser. 2, vol. v. p. 173, 
t. 4. 
T. egyptiaca, Boiss. Fl. Orient. vol. i. p. 783. 
The specific name of this pretty little shrub is unfor- 
tunate, for it has never, as far as at present known, been 
found in Egypt. It has however an extensive range in the 
Mediterranean islands and coasts; I have examined speci- 
mens from Lampedusa, Cephalonia, Zante, and Sphacteria, 
and it hence may possibly occur on the coast of Egypt 
westward of the Nile, which has never been explored by a 
botanist. Its western limit is Cape Agadir in Southern 
Morocco, on the shores of the Atlantic, where it has been 
discovered by a collector employed by M. Cosson in that 
district (which is impenetrable by Christians) since the 
publication of my fellow-traveller Mr. Ball’s “ Spicilegium 
Maroccanum.”’ It is difficult to believe that H. maritimum 
Sieber and H. Webbii Spach, which differ only in the length 
of the styles, are anything but sexual states of H. egyptia- 
cum: of these the first is a native of Crete, as well as of 
Malta, whence we have specimens from Mr. Duthie, and the 
latter of the Ionian Islands. , 
In its native state H. egyptiacum is a very low-growing, 
often prostrate, small shrub, with very woody stout trunk 
MARCH Ist, 1880. 
