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Hypericum.] HYPERICINEA. 243 
119. Beroia verticiuata Willd.; F. I. ii. 456: F. B. 1. i, 262, 
Rice-fields and river-banks ; occasional. 
A small annual weed. Vernac. Lal-keshuriya 
120, Berara amManniorpes Roxb.; F. I. ii. 457; F. B. Li. 251, 
Rice-fields and river-banks; common. 
A small annual wee 
Order XIX. HYPERICINEZ. 
Herbs, shrubs or, rarely, trees. Leaves opposite, rarely whorled, 
frequently gland-dotted; stipules 0. Flowers regular, he rmaphrodite, 
terminal ita ose or solitary, rarely axillary. Disk 0, or repre- 
sented by hypogynous glands between the staminal bundles. 
Sepals 5, rarely 4, free, imbricate. Petals 5, rarely 4, hypogynous, 
often contorted-imbricate. Stamens many, rarely few, but never 
isomerous with _ filaments usually connate in 3 or 5 
bundles, rarely free or all connate; anthers versatile, rarely 
innate, 2-celled; Peete longitudinal lateral. Carpels 3-5, 
United in a superior 1-locular, or more or less perfectly 3-5-locular 
ovary, rarely carpel solitary; styles as many as carpels, free or 
united, stigmas terminal, capitate or truncate; ovules many to 
parie 
dehiscent capsular, or berry-like and indehiscent, rarely breaking 
up into cocci. Seeds ial straight ; albumen 0; embryo straight 
or curved. 
Capsule bursting septicidally ; seeds not winged ; a herb....-. Hypericum. 
Capsule bursting loculicidally ; seeds winged ; a shrub ..--.- Cratoxylon. 
75. Hypericum Linn. 
Herbs, shrubs, or small trees; leaves sessile, gland- -dotted. 
ers yellow, in terminal or axillary cymes. Sepals 5, im- 
neate. Petals 5, usually oblique. Stamens numerous, free or 
shortly connate below in 8-8 bundles without intervening glands, 
ypogyn 
tween, or all connate at the base. Ovary 1-locular, with 3-5 
ietal aca or — with axial placentas ; styles free 
es rous. Fruita thee capsule, 
- dehiseing nee the ror Seeds not winged, 
