JACK’S MALAYAN PLANTS, 373 
terminal, foliose, the lower divisions being axillary; oppo- 
sitely branched and rigid. Flowers dark red or purple. 
Bracts minute. Calyx five-leaved, persistent, leaflets ovate, 
smooth, the outer ones smaller. Corolla cup-shaped, 
longer than the calyx, five-petaled; petals subrotund; 
unguis naked, without pore or scale. Nectaries three, yellow, 
inserted below the corolla, and half as large as the petals, 
subrotund, doubled backwards upon themselves in such a 
manner as to form a sack which opens behind near the base. 
Stamina numerous, their filaments united for about half 
their length into three phalanges, which are inserted alter- 
nately with the three nectaries; they are a little shorter than 
the corolla; anthers yellow, two-celled. Ovary oblong, 
three-celled, many-seeded. Styles three, diverging. Stig- 
mata three, subrotund. Capsule oblong, three-celled, each 
cell containing several seeds as long as the cell and attached 
to the bottom of the central column; they are thin and flat, 
disposed regularly one within the other forming concentric 
. circles, which are particularly apparent in the transverse 
section of the capsule. 
Oss. This curious arrangement of the seeds is not a little 
remarkable; they lie one within the other like skins of an 
onion, each occupying the full length and breadth of the 
cell, but diminishing regularly in size from the outermost to 
the middle in proportion to the different radius of the circle 
which is described round the common centre. They are 
attached one above the other to the bottom of the cell at its 
inner angle. The leaves are destitute of pellucid dots, and 
have their lateral nerves strongly and distinctly marked. 
The nectaries which alternate with the stamina are very 
peculiar, being saccate, apparently by being doubled back- 
wards. This species differs from the following and those of 
America in having no scales at the base of the petals, and 
from the latter in having numerous stamina. It appears 
to be nearly related to Loureiro's Hypericum Cochinchinense, 
which, as already observed, belongs to this genus. 
