Hypericum.'] xxi. hypericinej: (oliver). 157 



nearly to the shortly 5-fi(l apex. Seeds oblongr-cylindricnl, sliortly npiculate 

 at each end. 



Nile I«and. Abyssinia, in rocky mountainous places, Schiinperl Petit! 



Var. 3. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, 2^ in. by 1 in. Flowers in a bruad cyme. 



Ankober, Abyssinia, Roth ! 



Var. 7. Sepals 2-3 lines. Petals broader. 



laower Guinea. Huilla, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch ! 



Distinguished by its small sepals. 



7. H. gnidiaefoliuniy Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. 98. A glabrous shrub with 

 terete extremities. Leaves approximate, oval-lanceolate, acute, narrowed 

 slightly to the base, glabrous, rather glaucous beneath, with numerous trans- 

 lucent, often linear glands, 1-1|- in. long, \-\ in. broad, rarely larger on the 

 flowering branches. Flowers about 1^ in. across in 3-5-flowered terminal 

 cymes. Sepals, outer ovate, inner broadly oval, subacute or rather obtuse, 

 with or without dark intramarginal immersed glands ; the inner about 4 

 lines long. Petals narrow oval. Styles 5, united three-fourths of their lengtii 

 or rather more. 



Nile Ijaud. Abyssinia, Lillon and Petit ! 



H. mysorense, Wt. and Arn., of India, is closely allied, but generally has the stamens 

 nearly or quite free. 



8. H. chrysostictum, Webb, Frag. Fl. Mhiop. 54. Yirgate glabrous 

 undershrub ; extremities slender, ancipitous. Leaves sessile, oblong, obtuse, 

 apiculate, glabrous ; margin slightly crisped, subrevolute. Cymes few- 

 flowered. Sepals linear-oblong, narrowed above, mucronulate, glabrous, one- 

 third as long as the narrow petals. Ovary ovoid, glabrous, reticulate with 

 white lines. Styles 3, divaricate. 



Nile Land. Sennar? {Schweinf. et Asch. Enum.). 

 1 have not seen a specimen. 



2. ENDODESMIA, Benth. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. 106. 



Sepals 5. Petals 5, glabrous or nearly so, contorted in aestivation. Sta- 

 mens very numerous, in 5 phalanges, which are connate in a cylindrical 

 nearly entire or 5-toothed tube, closely lined with the subscssile or stipitate, 

 apiculate anthers. Pistil monocarpellary ; ovary 1-celled, witli a single pen- 

 dulous ovary, narrowed into the subulate-filiform .style. Fruit drupaceous, 

 indehiscent with a rather thin pericarp. Seed pendulous, exalbuminous ; 

 cotyledons oblong, plano-convex, thick and fleshy ; radicle minute. — A shrub 

 or small tree. Leaves coriaceous, opposite, without a connecting inter- 

 petiolar line, entire, acuminate, glabrous, impunctate, with transverse, closely 

 parallel lateral veins. Flowers yellow, in terminal corymbose cvmes. 



But a single species is knoA\ni, confined to equatorial W. Africa. 



1. E. calophylloideSy Benth. in Gen. VI. i. 166. Branches iereir, 

 smooth, with an evanescent glaucous bloom. Leaves oval- oi lanceolate- 

 oblong, with a slender, rather obtuse, acumen, 2-3^ in. long, \-\\ in. broad ; 

 petiole about 2 lines. Flowers about \ in. when expanded, on pedirrU .-t 



