156 XXI. HYPERiciNE^ (oliver). \_HypericHm. 



liower Guinea. Hiiilla, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch! 



A Cape species. The Himalayan H.foetidum, Hook. f. and Thorns, mss., appears to me 

 identical. 



4. H. lanceolatuxn. Lam. Encycl. iv. 145. A shrub or small tree of 

 20-30 feet, wholly glabrous; the young leafy twigs angular or at first very 

 narrowly winged. Leaves numerous, spreading, often rather crowded, 

 narrowly oval or linear-oval, acute or mucronate, impunctateor with scattered 

 or intramarginal translucent dots, venation often subtranslucent, \-\ in. 

 long, 1-2 (occasionally 3-4) lines broad. Flowers 1^-2 in. across, solitary, 

 terminating the leafy, often very numerous, branchlets. Sepals broadly 

 ovate-elliptical or -rotundate, obtuse or obtusely apiculate, thinly bordered 

 with minute glands and often dark intramarginal dots, \-\ in. Petals much 

 exceeding the sepals, obliquely oblanceolate-oblong or obovate. Stamens 

 very shortly and often indistinctly connate at the base, in 5 phalanges. 

 Ovary glabrous, ovoid. Styles 5, united from one-third to three-quarters 

 from the base, rarely nearly free. Seeds very numerous, linear-elongate, 

 often variously curved. — H. angustifolium, Lam. 1. c. ? H. leucopfychodes, 

 Steud. ; Rich.'Pl. Abyss, i. 96. 



Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, 7000-10,000 ft., and Camaroons mountain, 4000- 

 8000 ft. (the latter with deeply divided styles), Mami ! 



Nile Iiand. Abyssinia, various mountainous localities, Schimper ! Roth ! 

 Mozanxb. Distr. Manganya hills, Dr. Meller ! 



Occurs also in Bourbon ; some specimens from whence have leaves 1^-2 in. long, and 

 the sepals less broadly ovate and more acute, but the ordinary continental form grows also 

 in the island. 



5. H. Quartinianum, T^j'c^. Fl. Abyss. \.^1. A glabrous, rather glau- 

 cous shrub. Leaves oblong-elliptical, rather acute, sessile, with a narrowly 

 or scarcely amplexicaul base, usually with scattered, scarcely translucent dots 

 and black intramarginal glands, 1-3 in. long, -^1 in. broad. Flowers 2-2| 

 in. diam., in few- or many- flowered corymbose or terminal cymes. Sepals 

 ^1 in. long (or sometimes very little longer), ovate-lanceolate or -oblong, 

 rather acute, with intramarginal black dots and sometimes glandular serra- 

 tures. Petals ample, much exceeding the sepals. Styles 5, united through- 

 out; stigma capitate, 5-lobulate. Ovary 5-celled. — H. affine, Steud. ms. 

 in Herb. Rich. H. Roeperianum, Schimp. ; Rich. 1. c. 96. 



Nile Iiand. Abyssinia, Schimper ! Dillon and Petit ! 



H. Rxperianum appears to be a form with the oval -lanceolate leaves more narrowed to 

 the base, and scarcely or not at all amplexicaul. Other specimens in the Richardian Her- 

 barium of Count Franqueville indicate this to be a variable species in the size and form of 

 the leaves and sepals. 



6. H. Schimperi, Hochsl. ; Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. 97. A glabrous shrub. 

 Leaves oblong-elliptical or elliptic-lanceolate subacute or rather obtuse, nar- 

 rowed or rounded to the base, which is very narrowly amplexicaul, but not 

 cordate, with numerous translucent often linear glands, pfiler beneath, 1^-3 

 in. long, I. to nearly 1 in. broad. Flowers 1-2 in. diam., in terminal cymes. 

 Sepals very short, 1-2 (-3) lines, triangular-ovate, acute or rather obtuse, 

 with black glandular dots within the margin. Styles 5, elongate, united 



