Hypericum. | POLYADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. 401 
H. aureum. Lourier. Cochin Ch. 578. 
Chin, Keemsee-jau-taing. : 
H. monogynum. Miller’s Figures, t. 151, f. 2. Curt. Bot. 
Mag. N. 334. 
A low, but ramous shrub, growing in the Company’s Bota- 
nic garden, originally from China. In flower and seed great 
part of the year. ; 
Stem none, but branches innumerable. Bark pretty 
smooth, brown, Leaves approximate, opposite, decussate, 
sessile, and nearly stem-clasping, horizontal, linear-oblong, - 
obtuse, entire, smooth on both sides; from one to two inches 
long. Stipules none. Flowers terminal, from one to so many 
as forma small umbel, short-peduncled, large, of a bright yel- 
low. Calyx five-leaved ; leaflets smooth, oblong, green. Pe- 
tals five, obliquely wedge-formed as in the monodelphous 
flowers. Filaments from thirty to fifty, in five phalanges, 
nearly as long as the petals. Anthers oval, incumbent. Style 
single, as if composed of five, being five-grooved, as long as 
* the stamens, Stigma five-cleft. Capsules five-partible, five- 
celled, opening from the apex. Seeds many. 
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