110 ILLUSTRATIONS QF INDIAN BOTANY. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE 42. 
ramignya monophylla, R.W. (Micromelum ? mo- 5. The 5-celled ovary cut transversel 
1. Pa y. 
nophyllum)—natural size. 6. The same cut vertically, showing the ovules super- 
2. An expanded flower. 0 
sed. 
3. The same, the calyx partially separated and the 7. A portion of a leaf magwiified, to show the pellucid 
petals and stamens removed, to show the cup-shaped dots. 
plaited torus, ovary, style, and stigma. ; 
4. Stamens and anthers, filament compressed, subulate 
at the apex. 
XXXIT.—HYPERICINEA. 
In proportion to the extent of its distribution over the surface of the earth this is a small 
order, about 160 or 170 species being all that is yet known, though found in every quarter of 
the globe. Its forms are about as varied as its distribution, consisting of herbs, shrubs, and 
trees. The juice is usually resinous, often yellow, resembling that of the Guttifer@: the 
stem in most, and the branches in nearly all, have swollen articulations, and are 4-sided in the 
intervals between the joints, The leaves are opposite, simple, entire, or crenulated; with mar- 
ginal glands; sessile, or attenuated into the petiols, for the most part perforated with pellucid 
glandular points, the margins sometimes marked with black o aque dots. ‘The flowers are 
regular, bisexual, often forming terminal dichotomous cymes, aid asustts yellow. 
alyx persistent of 4-5 sepals imbricated in wstivation. Petals hypogynous, twisted in 
wstivation, obliquely veined, as many as the sepals, alternate with them,- usually withering, 
becoming, after anthesis (blowing) variously twisted or involute on the margin in different 
. Species. Stamens indefinite 3-5 adelphous, rarely monadelphous, or quite distinct. Anthers 
versatile, dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary solitary, consisting of 3-5 anited carpels, 3-5 celled, 
cells with numerous ovules. Styles as many as the carpels, distinct or connate. Stigmas simple or” 
capitate. Fruit baccate, or capsular with several valves, and a septicidal dehiscence, usually 
several celled with the placente in the axis, sometimes l-celled with the placenta, parietal, 
Seeds minute, indefinite, or few, in each cell, albumen none. Embryo straight, radicle next the 
hilum, 
_. Geoerapuicat Distrisution, Few orders of the same extent have an equally general 
distribution over the surface of the globe; every quarter partaking more or less extensively. 
India, and the adjoining islands, judging from Wallich’s list participating, with the exception of 
is the number set down for the whole of North America, and 19 for Europe. The Peninsular 
grounds, to two distinct genera, Vorysca and Brathys, the former including our Hypericum 
mysurense and Hookerianum, the latter H. japonicum and Wightianum, which for the fature will: 
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