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Herbs erect with Opposite Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 

 Leaf Margins Entire. 



Hypericum perforatum, 

 Common St. John's Wort, 



Bassant, dendlu. 

 Hypericaceje. 

 F. B. I. i. 255. 

 Himalaya, 3-8,000 ft. 

 Simla iir shady forest, 

 (Collett). 



Petals Ununited. 



medium size, perennial, stem 2-angled, lowest 

 branches rooting ; leaves f in. long, oblong or ovate, 

 blunt, dotted with translucent glands, pale below 

 with black dots, sessile ; flowers 1 in. diam., yellow 

 in terminal or axillary short-stalked clusters ; 

 sepals 5, g- in. long, united at the base, linear, short- 

 pointed ; petals 5, persistent, with black glandular 

 edges ; stamens many in 8 bundles ; anthers black- 

 dotted ; styles 3, as long as the stamens ; ovary 

 3-celled ; capsule 5 in. long, ovoid, seeds many, 

 small. 



Hypericum elodecides, 



Hyperioaceje. 

 F. B. I. i. 225. 

 Himalaya, 6-12,000 ft. 

 Simla, Narkanda in 

 j shady forest, 

 (Collett). 



medium size, perennial, stems round, lowest 

 branches rooting ; leaves 1-1-| ins. long, ovate, blunt 

 or lanceolate, short-pointed, base stem-clasping 

 margins black-dotted ; flowers f in. diam., in clus- 

 ters of branching racemes ; sepals 5, \ in. long, 

 narrowly lanceolate, black-dotted and streaked, 

 margins with gland-tipped teeth ; petals 5, persist- 

 ent, black-dotted and streaked ; in other characters 

 like the last species. 



Vahlia viscosa, 



Saxieragaue.cE. 

 F. B. I. ii. 399. 

 The Plains. 



small, annual or biennial, velvety with sticky 

 glands ; leaves ^-1 in. long, nearly sessile, oblong, 

 narrowed at both ends, short-pointed ; flowers g- in. 

 long, white, nearly sessile, in pairs or solitary in 

 nearly all the axils of the upper leaves, calyx tube 

 united to ovary and above it ; lobes 5, ovate and 

 short-pointed, persistent in fruit ; petals 5, 6 ni - 

 long, ovate with a broad tip united to the ovary ; 

 stamens 5 and styles 2, both £ in. long ; capsule 

 I in. diam., one-celled, nearly round, splitting at 

 the top between the styles ; seeds minute, many, 

 smooth. 



