XX. nYPERICACE^. 75 



4—^ in., obloiig-lauceolate, acute, entire, glabrous, with pellucid striae, 

 tapering to au ainplexicaul base with very small auricles. Flowers 

 bright golden-yellow, 2-2^ in. across, in terminal 1-3-flowered cymes ; 

 pedicels short. Sepals i- in. long, oblong-ovate, acute persistent. Petals 

 1-j in. long, elliptic-oblong, very oblique, twice as long as the stamens. 

 Stamens very numerous, in 5 groups, spreading. Ovary o-lobed, tapering 

 into 5 long, persistent styles ; ovules numerous on 5 axile placentas ; 

 styles longer than the ovary. Capsules ^ in. long ; valves 5, with long 

 beaks. Seeds cylindric. Fl. B. I. v. l,"p. 253 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 1, 

 p. 93. Norysca mysorensis, Wight, Icon. t. 56. — Flowers all the year. 

 On hills iu the Koukan ; rave. Konkan : Sfocks ! 



2. Hypericum japonicum, Tlmnh. Fl. Jap. (1784) p. 295, t. 31. 



An annual herb, erect or procumbent ; stem 6-12 in. long, 4-angled, 

 dichotomously branched above. Leaves -^-^ by ^—y^ in., amplexicaul, 

 elliptic or ovate, obtuse at both ends, pellucido-punctate. Flowers 

 ■^-■l in. across iu elongate dichotomous cymes ; pedicels \ in. long ; 

 bracts linear-lanceolate. Sepals lanceolate, acute, entire, persistent, 

 pellucido-punctate at the margin. Petals yellow, as long as the sepals, 

 persistent. Stamens not very numerous ; filaments slightly connate at 

 the base. Ovary 1-celled, with 3 parietal placentas ; styles 3 (rarely 4), 

 one third the length of the ovary. Capsules ovoid, equalling the per- 

 sistent sepals, 3-valved. Seeds oblong, ribbed. Fl. B. I. v. 1, p. 256; 

 Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 1, p. 93. — Flowers all the year. 



Rare. S. M. CoUxVtry : Castlerock, Gammie. — Distrib. Japan, China, Java, Aus- 

 tralia, New Zealand. 



Order XXI. GUTTIFER^. 



Trees or shrubs, abounding in yellow or greenish juice. Leaves 

 opposite, coriaceous or membranous, often decussate, rarely whorled, 

 usually exstipulate. Flowers axillary or terminal, solitary, fascicled, 

 subracemose or panicled, regular, dioecious, polygamous or hermaphrodite. 

 Sepals 2-6, imbricate. Petals 'l-d (rarely more or 0), hypogynous, 

 usually much imbricate or contorted. Male flowers : Stamens usually 

 indefinite, hypogynous ; filaments free or rarely connate, monadelphous 

 or in as many bundles as there are petals ; anthers various. Female 

 FLOWERS : Staininodes various. Ovary 2-many- or (rarely) 1-ceIled ; 

 ovules 1-many, axile or erect from the base of the cavity ; stigmas as 

 many as the cells of the ovary, free or connate, sometimes peltate, entire, 

 sessile, subsessile or with a more or less elongate style. Fruit usually 

 baccate, indehiscenfc, with a fleshy or pulpy pericarp. Seeds large ; 

 albumen ; embryo with a large radicle {tu/ellus) with small or obsolete 

 cotyledons, or of thick consolidated or free cotyledons and veiy short 

 inferior radicle. — Distrib. Throughout the tropics, chiefly in America 

 and Asia, rare iu Africa ; species 250. 



Stigma sessile or subsessile; embryo of a solid tigellus with minute 

 cotyledons or 0. 



Calyx of 4 or 5 sepals 1. Garcinia. 



Calyx closed in bud, bursting into 2 valves 2. Ochrocarpos. 



