Hijpericum. polyadelpiiia polyandria. 401 



H. mirenm. Lourier. Cochin Cli. 578. 



Chin. Keeinsee-jau-taino-. 



H. vinnof/}i7tnm. J\Iilier\s Figures, t. 151. y. 2. Curt. Bot, 

 JIacf. J^\ 3-U. 



A low, but famous shrub, growing in the Company's Bota- 

 nic garden, originally from China. In flower and seed great 

 part of the year. 



Stem none, but branches innumerable. Bark pretty 

 smooth, brown. Leaves approximate, opposite, decussate, 

 sessile, and nearly stem-clasping, horizontal, linear-oblong, 

 obtuse, entire, smooth on both sides ; from one to two inches 

 long. Stipules none. jFlowers terminal, from one to so many 

 as form a small umbel, short-peduncled, large, of a bright yel- 

 low. Calyx five-leaved ; leaflets smooth, oblong, green. Pe- 

 tals five, obliquely wedge-formed as in the monodelphous 

 flowers. Filaments from thirty to fifty, in five phalanges, 

 nearly as long as the petals. Anthers oval, incumbent. Style 

 single, as if composed of five, being five-grooved, as long as 

 the stamens. Stigma five-cleft. Capsules five-partible, five- 

 celled, opening from the apex. Seeds many. 



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