77 

 DISTHIB. Aii endoiiiic plant. 



Hypericum Ascyron LINN. Sp. PI. ed-2, p. 783 ; DC. Frodr. I. p. 

 545 ; HANCE in Jonrii. But. (1880) p. 259 ; MAXIM, in Mel. Biol. XT. p. 

 162 ; FRANCHET PI. DAVID, p. 55 ; FORBES et HEMSL. Ind. Fl. Sin. I. p. 

 72 ; DIELS Fl. Centr. Cliin. p. 476 ; PALIBIN Coiispect. Fl. Korea) I. p. 

 44 ; MATSUM. et HAYATA Euum. PL Fornios. p. 40. 



HAD. Sekihisho. 



DISTMB. Eastern Siberia, China, Mongolia, Korea, North America. 



Hypericum subalatum HAYATA Materials for a Flora of Formosa p. 

 41. Branches smooth, tetragouous, subulate, wings 1 mm. broad. Leaves 

 opposite, oblongly-lanceolate, 6 cm. long. 13 mm. broad, obtuse or shortly 

 mucronate at the apex, gradually narrowed, sessile, dotted. Flowers solitary 

 at the apex of the axillary branches, pedunculate, bracts often 2-3 cm. long, 

 leaf-like but smaller, perulate at the base, perules scaly, lanceolate, 2 mm, 

 long. Sepals 5, oblong, 7 mm. long, 3 mm. broad, obtusely acute. Petals 

 5, strongly oblique. Ovary ovoid, 5-sulcate, styles connate. 



Hypericum formosanwn HAYATA in MAT.SUM. et HAYATA Enum. PI. 

 Formos. p. 41, pro parfce, (uon MlXiM.) 



HAB. Kusshaku. 



The present plant differs from H. formosanum MAXIM, by much longer 

 leaves. The leaves of the other species are always oblong and shorter than 

 those of this plant. 



Hypericum acutisepalum HAYATA (PI. XV.) Materials for a Flora 

 of Formosa p. 38. Branches slender, barks reddish, braiichlets alternate or 

 opposite. Leaves opposite, oblong or elongately oblong, obtusely mucronate, 

 shortly attenuate at the base, sessile, 3-4 cm. long, 12 mm. broad, dotted 

 with black points, more pallid beneath, primary lateral veins 5-7, incon- 

 spicuous, more or less arcuate. Flowers clustered at the axils of the leaves, 

 pedicellate, pedicels 1 cm. long, perulate at the base, perules 2-3-seriate, 

 subulate, or lanceolate, 1 mm. long. Sepals 5, inequal, oblong, acute, 1} 

 mm. long. Petals 5, inequal, oblique, obovate, 12 mm. long, 7 mm. broad, 



