80 HYPERICINEJE. 



Flowers axillary, solitary, opposite, pedunculate, (peduncles 1 cm. long), 2-4- 



bracteate, bracts opposite, very like leaves, but smaller, 8 mm. long, base 

 pernlate, parules scaly, acute, 1-2 nun. long. Sepals 3 mm. long, oblong, 

 obtuse or rounded at the apex. Petals .">, very iuequal, obliquely oblong, 

 rounded at the apax. Stamens psntadelphous, shorter than petals. Ovary 4 

 mm. long, ovoid, obtuse at the apex, 5-eelled. Styles entirely connate, 

 stigma subglobose, slightly 5-lobsd. Capsules elongately ovoid, 8 mm. long, 

 3j mm. bro.id, styles 5 mm. long, simply persistent. Seeds numerous, clavatdy 

 cylindrical, 1 mm. long, winged on one side, wing slightly produced on both 

 ends. 



HAB. Nok<3san, at the height of 0000 ft. Coll. T. KAWAKAMI and U. 

 MORI, June, 1908, (No. 4507). 



Near H. longisiylum OLTV. ; but differs from it in the apex of the style, 

 and in having smaller flowers, and acute, elongate leaves. Also near 77. 

 innervhnn HEMSL. from which it is distinguishable by the ovate capsules 

 and elongately oblong leaves. 



Hypericum Sampsoni HAXCE in Journ. Bot. (1895) p. 378, et (1870) 

 p. 275; HEMSL in Journ. Bot. (187(5) p. 207; DYER in HOOK. f. Fl. Brit. 

 Tnd. I. p. 255 ; MAXIM, in Mel. Biol. XT. p. 1C5 ; FORBES et HEMSL. Tnd. 

 Fl. Sin. I. p. 74; HENRY List PL Formos. p. 19; DIELS Fl. Centr. Chin, 

 p. 470 ; MATSUM. et HAYATA Enum. PI. Formos. p. 43. 



Hypericum dccfrocarpum MAXIM, "in Bull. Acad. Petersb. XIT. p. HO." 



HAB. Tamsui, Talhoku. 



DISTRIB. Khasia, Assam, Birma, Japan, eastern and southern China. 



Hypericum taisanense HAYATA Materials for a Flora of Formosa p. 

 41. Shrubby, stems erect or ascendent, terete, rulmsceut, simple, not 

 branched, 30-40 cm. high, leafy at the upper portions, quite leafless at the 

 lower portions. Leaves opposite, elougately ovate, sessile, obtuse at the apex, 

 cordate at the base, punctate 011 the blade and the margin towards the apex, 

 chartaceous, costas and primary veins impressed above, elevated beneath. 

 Cymes terminal, 2-4 cm. long, 3-4 cm. broad, bracts shorter. Sepals 5, 

 connate at the has?, ovately lanceolate, obtuse or acute, 2.! mm. long, 



