Hypericum. : HYPERICINEJE, 99 
rescent plants, variously and copiously dotted with glands, and having 
a resinous juice. Leaves usually opposite and entire, without stipules. 
Flowers generally yellow. 
I. HYPERICUM. Linn. ; Lam, ill. t. 643. 
Sepals 5, more or less connected at the base. Petals 5. Stamens usually 
very numerous, united at the base into 3-5 bundles, rarely somewhat distinct. 
Styles 3-5, distinct or rarely combined, persistent. Capsule unilocular or 
_ With several cells. Membranaceous, 3-5 valved, many-seeded. Seeds round- 
ish ; seed-coat double: albumen none: embryo with semicylindrical cotyle- 
dons.—Herbaceous or shrubby plants. Leaves opposite, or very rarely (in 
H. alternifolium, Vahl, Wall. L. n. 4806) alternate, sessile or nearly so. 
Flowers either solitary, in threes, cymose, corymbosely panicled, or umbel- 
late, usually yellow. 
345. (1) H. mysurense (Herb. Madr.:) glabrous, shrubby: stem terete ; 
young branches 4-angled : leaves opposite, crowded, oblong-lanceolate, ta- 
pering at both ends, acute, upper ones semi-amplexicaul, lateral nerves very 
slender, unbranched, springing from the midrib at a very acute angle, running 
almost straight and parallel to each other nearly to the apex of the leaf ; pellu- 
cid dots roundish, oblong, and long-linear ; black dots none: flowers (large) 
solitary at the extremities of 1-3 umbellately placed very short leafy branchlets: 
* sepals ovate, unequal, entire, almost quite distinct, without black dots: pe- 
tals not.dotted : stamens numerous : styles 5, distinct, overtopping the sta- 
mens, longer than the ovary: stigmas slightly capitate: capsule 5-celled.— 
| Wall.! L. n. 4808 ; Wight ! cat. n. 331.—— Mysore ; Heyne. Neelgherries ; 
Notan. Mountainous districts in the southern provinces. 
346. (2) H. Hookerianum (W. & A.:) glabrous, shrubby, diffuse: stem 
terete ; young branches compressed : leaves opposite, somewhat distant, ob- 
hg, obtuse with a muero, contracted at the base with a kind of very short 
Petiole ; lateral nerves arching, and anastomosing ; pellueid dots round and 
oblong ; black dots none : flowers (large) solitary at the ends of the branches : 
sepals roundish-obovate, obtuse, entire, without black dots: petals not dot- 
ted: stamens very numerous: styles 5, distinct, overtopping the stamens, 
shorter than the ovary : stigmas obtuse : capsule 5-celled.— Wight ! cat. n. 332. 
Southern Provinces. 
347. (8) H. Japonieum (Thunb.:) perennial, herbaceous, glabrous, decum- 
t: stems 4-angled, slender: leaves opposite, sessile, oval, obtuse, 3- 
herved at the base; pellucid dots roundish ; black dots none: flowers (very. 
small) in a leafy cyme with its branches elongated, simple or once or twice 
forked : pedicels slender in the forks of the inflorescence, and alternately in 
the axils of the leaves: sepals foliaceous, equal, oblong, entire, 3-nerved, 
Without black dots ; pellucid dots in the upper part roundish, in the lower 
long-linear : petals free from dots, equal to the calyx: styles 3, clavate, 
Spreading : capsule 3-celled.— Thunb. fl. Jap. p. 295. t. 31; DC. prod. 1. 
P: O49 ; Spr. syst. 3. p. 345 ; Wall.! L. n. 4811 ; Wight! cat. n. 333, 334, 335. 
Closely allied to H. humifusum of Europe, having the same appearance 
inflorescence, and occupying a very wide range in the East ; specimens 
are before us from China and Nepal. 
348. (4) H. Wightianum (Wall. :) herbaceous, glabrous, decumbent : stems 
terete, slender: leaves ied Mk teas elliptical, crowded below, rather dis- 
tant above, fringed at the base and the floral leaves along the margins with 
my Tocesses tipped with glands; pellucid dots roundish ; black dots 
none: flowers (small) corymbose : sepals €— acute, equal, 
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