Hypericum. | Portulacacez. . Fg 
spathulate, glabrous, 4 in. long, 0-2 in. broad, in whorls at 
the nodes ; ‘stipules linear-lanceolate, mucronate, scarious ; 
flowers 4 in. long; bracts and sepals with a white scarious 
border, acute; petals smaller than the sepals, oblong, obtuse; 
capsule small, brown. 
‘“On one of the small islands off the coast of Jaffna... J. P. 
Lewis 8.xii.03.”’—Willis 1. c. 
This specimen is not now in the herbarium at Peradeniya. 
Also in India, Arabia, North Africa, and Australia. 
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XV.—PORTULACACE:: 
Ovary half-adnate . : j . : : : . PORTULACA. 
Ovary free : : ; . Talinum. 
TALINUM Adans. 
T. paTens Willd. Sp. Pl. II, p. 863 (1799). 
There is a specimen of this in Herb. Perad. labelled Colombo, W. 
Ferguson. There is also a cultivated species called Gas- or Rata- 
niviti. 
It is a native of Tropical America. 
face O1.— 
TAMARIXZ Linn. 
Stamens 5 ‘ : : ; ; : _~ E. GALLACA: 
Stamens 1o_ . : : . T. ericoides. 
T. ERICOIDES Rottl. in hoe hee Nat. Cur. Beral. IV, 21a tux 
(1803); Dyer in Fl. Brit. Ind. I, p. 249 (1872). 
This is known from “ Central India, Bengal, and the Western 
Peninsula.”’ 
Page 92.—For Bergia verticillata Willd. read: 
B. capensis Linn. Mant. I, p. 241 (1767); Gamble Fl. Madr. 
p. 69 (1715). B. verticillata Willd. Sp. PL. II, p. 770 (1779). 
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“he HYPERICUM Linn. 
Shrub; fis. large . : . : . I. H. MYSORENSE. 
Herbs: 
Leaves not punctate; ovary 1-celled; stem 
quadrangular : : . ' . 2. H. JAPONICUM. 
Leaves punctate; ovary SS stem 2- 
edged. ; ; ; H. humifusum. 
H. numirusum Linn. Sp. Pl. p-. 785 cay: Dyer in Fl. Brit. Ind. I, 
Pp. 254 (1872). H. rubum Wight ms. 
Dyer gives the distribution as: Nilghiris, Europe, Atlantic Isles, 
and S. Africa, but does not suggest that it is adventive in any of these 
localities. 
Part I. 
