Hypericum.] xxn. HYPERICINEJE. (W. T. Thiselton Dyer.) 257 



close often few-flowered, sepals with one prominent nerve. H. foetidum, 

 H.f. &T. ms. 



KHASIA MTS., alt. 5-6000 ft., Lobb, &c. DISTRIB. S. Africa, Lower Guinea. 



Annual. Smell remarkably foetid, like bad orange-peel. Stems 6-18 in., slender, 

 simple, tufted. Leaves in., or less, rather thick, faintly pellucid-punctate. Sepals 

 elliptic-oblong. Styles 4 the length of the ovary. Probably a variety of H. japonicum, 

 but identical with the African plant. 



SECT. IV. Elodeineee, Spach. Stamens definite (9), cohering for -| their 

 length into 3 bundles separated by (entire) hypogynous scales. 



19. H. breviflorum, Wall. Cat. 4876 ; stems usually simple cylindric 

 lower f bare, flowers in 1-3 short axillary cymes. 



KHASIA MTS., alt. 5000 ft. ; SILHET, Wallich. 



/Stems 14 ft. Leaves narrow elliptic, black-dotted beneath. Flowers white. Sepals 

 very short, ovate-linear, obtuse. Anthers vesicular-apiculate. Styles f the length of 

 the ovary, recurved. Capsule \ in., ovoid. The allied S. petiolatum, Walt., of N. 

 America and Japan has cylindric capsules. 



3. CRATOXYLON, Blume. 



Shrubs or trees. Leaves entire, usually papery. Inflorescence axillary or, 

 terminal, cymose. Sepals and petals each 5. /Stamens ?>- or 5-adelpbous, with 

 fleshy hypogynous glands alternating with the bundles. Ovary 3-celled ; 

 styles distinct ; ovules 4-oo in each cell. Capsule 3-valved. DISTRIB. Tro- 

 pical Asia ; species about 12. 



SECT. I. Ancistrolobus, Spach. Petals snbpersistent, inappendiculate. 

 Stamens 3-adelphous, hypogynous ; glands more or less cucullate. 



1. C. polyanthum, Korth. Verhand. Nat. Gesch. Bot. 175, t. 36 ; leaves 

 elliptic to oblong, cymes 1-3-flowered axillary or slightly supra-axillary, 

 petals glandular- veined. 



BIRMA and the EASTERN PENINSULA. DISTRIB. China (C. liflorum), Philippines, 

 Borneo. 



A glabrous aromatic shrub, with compressed branchlets. Leaves 1-4 in., pellucid- 

 punctate and black-dotted beneath, flowers \ in. cliam., pink. Sepals in. long, 

 ^ in. when in fruit, elliptic, obtuse. Hypogynous glands sometimes obsolete. Capsule 

 ^-\ in. long, exceeding the sepals. Seeds 3, j in. long, with an oblique unilateral 

 wing. 



VAR. 1. ligustrinum, Blume Mus. Bot. ii. 16(p.); leaves narrowed at both ends 

 acute. C. lanceolatum, Hiq. J?L Ned. Ind. Supp. i. 500. Ancistrolobus ligustrinus, 

 Spach, Suit. Buff. v. 361. A. brevipes, Turcz. Bull. Mosc. 1858, i. 383. Hypericum 

 pulchellum, Wall. Cat. 4821. Pegu, Malacca, S. Andamans, Kurz. 



VAR. 2. Wightii, Bl. I.e. 18 (sp.). Leaves broadly oval mostly obtuse. Ancistrolobus, 

 sp. Wight lU. i. 111. Hypericum horridum, Wall. Cat. 4822. Elodea, sp., Griff. 

 Notul. iv. 569. Tenasserim, Mergui, Griffith; Tavoy, Wallich. 



2. C. neriifolium, Kurz in Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. 1872, pt. ii. 293 : 

 leaves narrow-oblong sessile, cymes 3-flowered in a short terminal panicle 

 Hypericum neriifolium, Wall. Cat. 4824. 



BIRMAH, Teiyet, Griffith; Pegu, Prome hills, Wallich; CHITTAGONO, H. f. & T. 



A shrub, 10 ft. Leaves 3-6 in., by f -1| in., slightly cordate, tapering to the apex. 

 Panicle 3 in. Hypmjynous glands with the reflexed margin mucronate. Capsule \ in., 

 hardly exceeding the calyx. Agrees otherwise with C. polyanthum and closely allied 



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