Ascyrum.} xxu. HYPERICINE^E. (W. T. Thiselton Dyer.) 253 



A perennial herb. Stems 3-6 in., slender, cylindric, faintly 2-edged, rooting at the 

 base. Leaves in. or less, subsessile, broadly elliptic, obtuse, pellucid-punctate, mar- 

 gins wavy. Flowers \ in. diam , solitary. Sepals oblong, obtuse, outermost exceeding 

 the petals. Styles 3, ^ in., rather shorter than the ovary. 



2. HYPEHICU2WE, Linn. 



Herbs, shrubs, or small trees. Leaves usually sessile. Flowers cymose, 

 yellow, terminal, or axillary. Sepals 5. Petals 5, usually oblique. Ovary 

 1-celled with 3 or 5 parietal, or 3-5-celled with axile placentas ; styles free 

 or united ; ovules oo , rarely few. Capsule septicidal, or dehiscing at the 

 placentas. DISTRIB. Temperate regions ; species 160. 



H. calycinum, L., from S. Europe, occurs as a garden plant. 



H. chmense, L. ; H. rnonogynum, Willd.; fioxb. f'l. 2nd. iii. 400, is said to be known 

 only as a cultivated plant. It is found in Indian gardens ; the leaves are elliptical and 

 obtuse, and the styles united throughout. Hypericum salicifolium, Sieb. & Zucc., of 

 Japan is probably not distinct from this. 



SECT. I. Androsaemineae, Spach. Sepals 5, unequal. Petals deciduous. 

 Stamens 5-adelphous at the base. Ovary 5-celled. (Commonly shrubs with 

 few and large flowers.) 



* Styles longer than tJie ovary (unknown in 1). 



1. XX. Griffith!!, H.f. & T. ms.; leaves ovate subcordate, cymes corym- 

 bose, sepals small narrowly deltoid, styles 5. 



BHOTAN, Dimree-nuddee, alt. 6400 ft., Griffith. 



A shrub, young branches terete. Leaves 2-4^ in., obtuse, younger lanceolate acute, 

 firm, glaucescent below with prominent reticulate nerves. Sepals in. long, acute. 

 Capsule g-4 in. long. Flowers unknown ; habit that of H. grandifolium, Choisy. 



2. H. mysorense, Heyne in Wall. Cat. 4808 ; leaves oblong-lanceolate 

 decussate approximate, sepals ovate, styles exceeding the stamens. H. myr- 

 tifolia, Spach Suit. Buff. v. 428? Norisca mysorensis, Wight Ic. t. 56. 



WESTERN PENINSULA ; on the hills from the Concan to the Pulneys, alt. 3-4000 ft. 

 CEYLON, Walker, &c. 



A glabrous shrub 4-6 ft. high (Gardner) ; young branches 4-angled. Leaves 1-2 in., 

 tapering to an amplexicaul base, with slender ascending veins and pellucid striae. 

 Cymes terminal, 3-flowered; flowers 2-2f in. diam. Sepals 4 in-> acute. Petals 

 obliquely oblanceolate, twice the length of the stamens. Styles twice as long as the 

 ovary. Cupsule about in. The allied Abyssinian H. gnidicefotium, Eich., has styles 

 | united. 



3. K. cernuum, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 59 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 400 ; leaves 

 elliptic to ovate-lanceolate, glaucous beneath, sepals ovate, styles slightly 

 exceeding the stamens. CamJb. in Jacq. Voy. Bot. t. 23. H. oblongifolium, 

 Choisy Prodr. Hyp. 42, t. 4. H. speciosum, Wall. Cat. 4803. H. Gova- 

 nianum, Wall. Cat. 4815 (sepals linear-lanceolate). 



WESTERN TEMPERATE HIMALAYA ; from Kumaon to Sirmur, alt. 5-7000 ft. 



A glabrous shrub, 3-6 ft. ; branches cylindric, glaucous when young. Leaves 1-3 in., 

 sessile, minutely dotted. Cymes terminal, 3-5-tiowered; flowers 2 in. diam., white, 

 then yellowish. Sepals % in., acute. Petals obovate, longer than the stamens. Styles 

 twice the length of the ovary. Capsule 4 in., conical. 



4. K. cordifolium, Choisy in DC. Prodr. i. 545 ; leaves oblong-lanceo- 

 late cordate coriaceous glaucous beneath, sepals lanceolate. H. bracteatum, 



Wall. Cat. 4604 ; PI. Asiat. Rar. t. 220. H. acutum, Wall. Cat, 4807. 



