126 NOTICES OF NEW OR RARE GARDEN PLANTS. 



with five styles, said to be a branched shrub two to four feet 

 high, inhabiting wet places in the valleys, may possibly be this. 



Hypericum oblongifolium. 



In general appearance the plant resembles H. elatum ; but it has 

 very large rich reddish-yellow flowers, and firm sessile ovate 

 acute coriaceous leaves, slightly marked with transparent dots, 

 some of which are minute and circular, others larger, long, and 

 linear. The flowers appear at the ends of the brandies in forked 

 cymes, having oval leafy bracts recurved at the point. The 



