254 XXIT. HYPERICINEJE. (W. T. Thiselton Dyer.) 



CENTRAL HIMALAYA; Nipal, Wallich: Kumaon, at Ramari, alt. 4500ft Strach. 

 & Wint. 



A glabrous shrub, 1-2 ft. ; branches long, slender, brown ; branchlets subtetragonous. 

 Leaves 1-2 in., coriaceous, opaque with translucent lines, penninerved with one or two 

 lateral veins and midrib darkly marked below. Cyme* many-llowered ; How. TS I. 1 , in 

 diam. Sepals -{ in. Petals obliquely obovate. Stamens equalling the styles, | the 

 length of the petals. Styles l times as long as the ovary. 



5. H. lysimacliioides, Wall. Cat. 4817; leaves ovate subsessile glau- 

 cous beneath with dark veins, sepals linear-lanceolate. H. coriaceum, Koyte 

 III. 131. 



WESTERN TEMPERATE HIMALAYA ; from Kumaon, alt. 8-9000 ft., to Wardwan, 

 alt. 5-6500 ft., Stewart. 



A glabrous shrub, branchlets subtetragonous. Leave* -1 ',' in ., acute or rather 

 obtuse, penninerved, the veins connected marginally, pale and black-dotted be.nrath. 

 Cymes loose, leafy, 2-3-chotomous ; flowers 1 in. 1 diam. Sepals ^ in. Hiaf* lanceo- 

 late. Styles slightly longer than the ovary, not exceeding the stamens, t 

 about 4 in. 



** Styles not longer than the ovary. 



6. H. Hookerianum, W. <(- A. Pm<1r. 0!) ; branches terete, leaves 

 ovate to ovate-oblong, si-pals obovate, styles recurved exceeding the stamens. 

 Wiy/it Ic. 949. H. oblongifolium, tiooi ttnl. M<KJ. t. ID \ :>. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 8-12,000 ft, /. D. 11. : MISH.MI, (.f ninth ; KHAHIA Mm, alt. 

 4--6000 ft., Lobb., &c. ; NIMJIIIKIS, Wiyht, &c. 



A glabrous shrub 6-8 ft. ; branches red-brown. Leaves 1-4 in., sessile or very 

 shortly stalked, obtuse, inncronate, lirm. r rusty beneath. faintly pellucid- 



punctate. C7ym few-flowered OT COr.rmbom, Icaty-l.racJcate ; Mowers ahmit - J in. iliain., 

 troldeit-TelloW. /v /////.- \-h in. /V/r//.s (ibliquely-nl.ov.iti-, 1 .ii-erthaii th" s'ani'-ns. >V// '' -' 

 ^ in., shorter thai, the ovary, ('ni^nl.- , : in., obtusely (onical to eux r -shaped. 



\'.\i:. Li-m-lit inniltii, Chnisy in !>('. I'rodr. i. 1 \'t (>p.); I>eless. Ic. Sel. iii. t. xxvii. ; 

 sepals acute. H. tritlorum, altune, /'/. \n/. Ind. l rj. 11. oblongifoliam, Wall. Cat. 

 4810 (not of CV/n/x,/). II. ('linisiaiiuni, Hall. Cut. 4805. Nipal, \\allich; 

 alt. 8000ft.', J. 1>. II. iMsiuiu. .la%a. 



7. K. patulum, TInml>. /'/. J/\ i'!)."., t. 17 : branches spreading ]yra- 

 midally j-ed^-d. leaves elliptic-lanceolate, sepals cllip: 



ceedin/? the stamens. \\'nil. Cut. -iMi!) ; HooL J>t. M,I>I. ;>(;IK; ; l)nn l'r<ir. 

 81& I!. I Tralnni, /A////, ex Don I.e.- l't. .}/,/. t. 2375; 1>C. Prodr. ^H. 

 H. obi im, I/V//7. . Kar. t. 244 nt ofChoisy in \Y<dl.. Cat.}. 



Throughout the TKMP. HIMALAYA (Sikkim excepted); alt. 3-7000 ft., from Hhotan, 

 GriJ/ltk, to Simla, Lady />at/iuu*ie, and Chamba, Stewart. KHASIA .M re., alt. 5-6000 ft.; 

 YUNAN, ./. Anderton. DISTBIB. .lapau, Kor: 



A glabrous shrub, 1-3 ft., with brownish bark and numerous red, stiffly patent 

 branches. Leaves 1-2^ in., distichous, very shortly pi-tioled, acute, black-dotted and 

 glaucescent or rusty beneath, pellucid punctat- and striate, margins n-llexcd. CI/H/I-* 

 tew-Howered, terminal; peduncles 'J-bracteute ; flowers 1 in. diam. .Vr/^/.v \ in. 

 orbicular, twice the 'length of the stamens. Styles equalling the ovary. <'<ip*uh !, in., 

 obtusely conical. Nearly allied to 11. Hookerianum but smaller, more rigid, and with 

 smaller flowers. 



VAB. attenuatum, Choisy in DC. Prodr. i. 545 ; more slender in every part. 



8. H. tenuicaule, //. /. & T. ms. ; branches diffuse slender terete, 

 leaves elliptic or ovate pellucid striate, flowers solitary or geminate, sepals 

 elliptic, styles not exceeding the stamens. 



TEMPERATE SIKKIM HIMALAYA ; Lachen valley, alt. 8000 ft., /. D. H. 



A glabrous shrub. Leavca 1-14 in., taperiug below, subacute, pale and glandular-dotted 



