252 xxi. ELATJNEJE. (W. T. Thiselton Dyer.) [Bergia. 



Throughout INDIA and CEYLON; in marshy places. DISTRIB. Affghanistan, Persia, 

 Tropical Asia, Africa, and Australia. 



Stems 3-12 in., erect or with the lower branches decumbent, smooth or thinly pubes- 

 cent-hispid, the stem-hairs often glandular-capitate. Leaves -f in., sessile, linear, 

 lanceolate or oblanceolate, tapering below, sharply serrate, acute. Flowers /._, in., 

 sessile or shortly pedicelled. Sepals 5, lanceolate, denticulate. Petal* and stamens 5. 

 Ovary oblong, deeply grooved. Capsule 3-6-celled ; valves with incurved edges, de- 

 hiscing from a central axis. Seeds numerous, ovoid. 



VAR. trimera ; Fisch. & Mey. in Linnsea, x. 74 (sp.) ; flowers trimerous. B. amman- 

 nioides /3 flor. triandr. ; Wiyht in Hook. Bot. Misc. iii. 93, t. 28, f. 1 and 2 ; Lechea 

 verticillata, Wittd. ex DC. Prod. i. 286. Western Peninsula and Ceylon. 



4. B. verticillata, Willd. ; Roocb. Fl. Ind. ii. 456; glabrous, stems 

 procumbent rooting, stamens 10. Thw. Enum. 23. Elatine (B) verticillata, 

 W. & A. Prodr. 41. B. aquatica, Roxb. Corom. PI. ii. 22, t. 142 ; Hoi**. /'/. 

 Orient, ii. 783. B. capensis, Linn. ; Rheede Hri. Ml. ix. t. 78. 



WESTERN PENINSULA, CEYLON and RANGOON. DISTRIB. Widely spread in the tropics 

 but absent from S. Africa. 



A glabrous rather succulent annual aquatic herb, -1 ft. Leaves 1-1 in., spreading, 

 elliptic-lanceolate, tapering at rith.-r ciul, acute, faintly crcnate-scrnitc- ; stipuk-s nar- 

 rowly deltoid, toot lied, acuje.. M.-pulx 5, narrow-lanceolate, obliquely acuminate, midrib 

 herbaceous. Petals 5. ( 'apxult- globose ovoid. Seeds minute, sliirhtly curved, ribbed 

 and transversely rugose. Not a native of the Cape, Linnseus's original name has there- 

 fore been suppressed. 



ORDER XXII. HYPERICINEJE. (By W. T. Thiselton Dyer, F.L.S.) 



Herbs or shrubs, rarely trees. Leaves opposite, often punctate with pel- 

 lucid glands or dark glandular dots, entire or glandular-toothed ; stipules 0. 

 Flowers solitary or cymose, terminal, rarely axillary. ,S'/y *//..- and /Huts each 

 5, rarely 4; petals contorted in bud. *S'A/ //*'//.< -c, or rarely definite, 3- or 

 5-adelphous, rarely free or all connate ; anthers versatile. Ovary 3-5-carpel- 

 lary, 1- or 3-5-celled ; styles as many, filiform, free or united ; ovules few or 

 QO, on parietal or axile placentas, anatropous, raphe lateral or superior. 

 Fruit capsular or baccate. Seeds exalbuminous ; embryo straight or 



mrved. DiSTRiB. Temp., and mountains of warm regions ; genera 8, species 



bout 210. 



TRIBE 1. Hyperlceee. Ccr^M^edehiscingsepticidally or at the placentas. 

 tfeeds not winged. 



Flowers 4-merous 1. ASCYRUM. 



Flowers 5-merous 2. HYPERICUM. 



TRIBE 2. Cratozylece. Capsule dehiscing loculicidally. Seeds winged. 



3. CKATOXYLON. 

 1. ASCYBUXK, Linn. 



Herbs or shrubs. Leaves small, entire. Flowers terminal, nearly solitary, 

 yellow, 4-merous. Sevak leafy, the 2 outer largest. Stamens slightly connate 

 or free. Ovary 1 -celled. Capsule 2-4-valved, dehiscing at the placentas. 

 DISTRIB. Except the endemic Indian species confined to N . Amer. and the 

 Antilles ; species 6. 



1. A. filicaule, Dyer. Hypericum filicaule, ff.f. & T. ms. 



TEMPERATE SIKKIM HIMALAYA ; Lachoong valley, alt. 12,000 ft., /. D. H. 



