2 OSBECK'S VOYAGE. 



lip is without incifions, oval, with reflected 

 Ikies : the lower-lip is bifid, with defle&ed 

 fides : the month is elevated : the neclarium 

 conical : the capfule is egg-fhaped, and is de- 

 hifcent on the fides : xht feeds are numerous : 

 the plant in length is an hand's breadth : the root 

 is fibrous and ramofe: the brafleazrevery fmall, 

 oval, alternate : the peduncles grow alternately, 

 and are compreffed : the flower s are fmall and 

 yellow. It grows in wet places. 



Phyllanthus Niuri. The corolla is mono- 

 petalous, fexdentated, and white: the capfule 

 is fixlocular : the root is fibrous : the Jlem is 

 erected, undivided. 



Hypericum Chinenfe differs from the Hypericum 

 quadrangulum in the following particulars : 

 Hypericum Chinenfe is much lefs, and lies on 

 the ground. The fegments of the calyx have 

 five veins, and are fomewhat longer than the 

 flowers: the petals are narrow, lanceolated, 

 excavated, erect, and of the length of the 

 calyx : the 1 3 filaments are filiform : the an- 

 them globofe and very fmall : the germen is 

 eo-g-fiiaped, and with three filiform Jlyli : the 

 fligma is obtufe ; and the capfule egg-fhaped : 

 the feeds are numerous, oblong, and fmall : 

 the leaves are oval, coming out of the filem 

 from the angles : the peduncles bear but one 



flower 



