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SAROTHRA. Jinn. 
Cal. profunde 5-partitus, persistens, segmentis lanceolatis, sub- 
inzequalibus, 3-striatis, erectis, appressis, acuminatis, Pe- 
tala 5, lineari-oblonga, lutea, erecto-patentia, obtusa vix 
unguiculata, striata, tenui-membranacea, persistentia, seg- 
mentis calycinis alternantia, siccitate ab apice involuta. 
"Estivatio spiralis. Stamina hypogyna, libera, definita ? 
5-20 (an plura?), persistentia. Filamenta gracilia pistilli 
longitudine. Anthere subrotunde, biloculares, longitudi- 
naliter dehiscentes. Pistillum solitarium. Germen ob- 
longum vel ovatum uniloculare obscure longitudinaliter 
3-sulcatum, superne praecipue. Styli 3, erecto-flexuosi, 
filiformes, demum reflexi, germine 4 breviores. Stigmata 
globosa. Capsula coriaceo-membranacea, oblonga vel 
. ovata, staminibus petalis calyceque persistentibus cir- 
cumdata, stylisque reflexis terminata, unilocularis, poly- 
sperma, semi-trivalvis. Semina 14-20 ad margines suturae 
longitudinaliter inserta, elliptica, pallide luteo-fusca, 
lineis elevatis punctisque intermediis notata, majuscula. 
Podospermum breve. Integumentum crustaceum. Albumen 
carnosum. Embryo centralis, immersus. Radiculaad hilum 
seminis versa—Herbz parve, annue, erecte, rigide, glan- 
duloso-punctate, punctis pellucidis, supra basin pluries dicho- 
tome ramose, Rami graciles, erecti, acute 4-anguli. Folia 
parva, linearia vel subulata, opposita. Flores in ramis 
vel in ramulis brevibus terminales ; nunc inter dichotomia 
ramorum. subsessiles. 
From this description, it will appear that Sarothra is, in 
many respects, closely allied to Hypericum, differing, how- 
ever, remarkably from the character hitherto given of that 
genus, in the internal organization of the capsule: and 
not only of that genus, but of the whole order, as detailed 
by DeCandolle, * Capsula bacca ve multivalvis multilocularis; 
loculi numero stylos sequantes, Placenta integra centralis seu 
multipartita margini introflexo valvularum adfixa." We were 
naturally led to examine if all the Hyperica had the “ central 
