CI. 13.] HYPERICA. 143 



winged Fruit; Malpighia, fig. 222, a simple berry, 

 or Drupa, with 3 bony Nuts. Trigonia Aubl. and 

 Erythroxylum are considered doubtful, as having 

 each a simple Style, and the former a long Capsule 

 of 3 valves, with numerous woolly Seeds; the latter 

 alternate Leaves, double Petals like the Sapindi, and 

 a Drupa with 1 Seed, whose Cotyledons are not 

 folded or reflexed at the base. 



These ambiguous generahowever form no link with 

 the following Order, nor do we perceive a real ap- 

 proach towards that Order, in any characters of the 

 Malpighice, though the learned author is commen- 

 dably solicitous to indicate such, in the opposite 

 Leaves, 3 Styles, and 3-celled Fruit. 



Ord. 68. Hyperica. "Calyx in 4 or 5 deep seg- 

 ments. Petals as many. Stamens numerous, united 

 at the base into several sets. Anthers roundish. Ger- 

 men simple. Styles several, with as many Stigmas. 

 Fruit generally capsular, the number of it's cells and 

 valves corresponding with the Styles, the partitions 

 formed of the inflexed edges of the valves. Seedsvery 

 minute, attached to a Receptacle in the centre of the 

 Fruit, either simple, or split into as many parts as 

 there are valves. Embryo straight. Albumen none? 

 Stem herbaceous, or more or less woody. Leaves op- 

 posite. Flowers oppositely corymbose, often ter- 

 minal." 



Ascyrwn, Brathys, and Hypericum, fig. 48-50, are 



