80 HYPERIC'INE/E. 



Flowers axillary, solitary, opposite, pedunculate, (peduncles 1 cm. long\ 2-4- 

 bracteate, bracts opposite, very like leaves, Imt smaller, S mm. long;, base 

 perulate, psrnles scaly, acute, 1-2 mm. long. Sepals 3 mm. long, oblong, 

 obtuse or rounded at the apex. Petals 5, very inequal, obliquely oblong, 

 rounded at tlie apex. Stamens pentadelphous, shorter than petals. Ovary 4 

 mm. long, ovoid, obtuse at the apex, 5-celled. Styles entirely connate, 

 stigma subglobose, slightly 5-lobed. (Capsules elongately ovoid, 8 mm. long, 

 3i mm. broad, styles 5 mm. long, simple, persistent. Seeds numerous, clavatdy 

 cyliudrica], 1 mm. long, winged on one side, wing slightly produced on both 

 ends. 



HAB. NOkosan, at the height of 0000 ft. Coll. T. KAWAKAMI and IT. 

 MORI, June, 1908, (No. 4507). 



Near 77. lonrjisiylum OLTV. ; but differs from it in the apex of the style, 

 and in having smaller flowers, and acute, elongate leaves. Also near 77. 

 trinervinm HEMSL. from which it is distinguishable by the ovate capsules 

 and elongately oblong leaves. 



Hypericum Sampson! HANCE in Journ. Bot. (1895) p. 378, et (1870) 

 p. 275; HEMSL in Journ. Bot. (1870) p. 207; DYER in HOOK. f. Fl. Brit. 

 Ind. I. p. 255 ; MAXIM, in Mel. Biol. XI. p. 105 ; FORBES et HEMSL. Tnd. 

 Fl. Sin. I. p. 74 ; HENRY List PI. Formos. p. 19 ; DIETX Fl. Centr. Chin. 

 p. 470 ; MAT-SUM, et HAYATA Enum. PI. Formos. p. 43. 



Hypericum elecfrocarpum MAXIM. " in Bull. Acad. Petersb. XII. p. 00." 



HAD. Tamsui, Taihoku. 



Khasia, Assam, Birma, Japan, eastern and southern China. 



Hypericum taisanense HAYATA Materials for a Flora of Formosa p. 

 41. Shrubby, stems erect or ascendent, terete, ruljesceut, simple, not 

 branched, 30-40 cm. high, leafy at the upper portions, quite leafless at the 

 lower portions. Leaves opposite, elongately ovate, sessile, obtuse at the apex, 

 o >rdate at the base, punctate on the blade and the margin towards the apex, 

 chartaceous, costas and primary veins impressed above, elevated beneath. 

 Cymes terminal, 2-4 cm. long, 3-4 cm. broad, bracts shorter. Sepals 5, 

 connate at the base, ovately lanceolate, obtuse or acute, 2-1 mm. long, 



