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ORDER XXVIII. HYPERICACEZ, 
Herbaceous plants, trees or shrubs, with resinous juice: 
leaves usually opposite, entire, without stipules: sepals 4-5; 
distinct or cohering, often unequal, dotted with glands, imbri-- 
cated in xstivation: petals hypogynous, 4-5, often dotted with 
black glands, unequal sided, twisted in estivation: stamens 
hypogynous, indefinite, sometimes distinct, almost always poly- 
adelphous: anthers 2-celled, opening lengthwise: ovary solitary: 
styles several, occasionally cohering at the base: stigmas capi- 
tate or simple: fruit baccafe or capsular, with several valves 
and many cells, sometimes 1-celled: seeds small, numerous, or 
1-3 in each cell: albumen none. 
GENUS I. NORYSCA. 
Polyadelphia Polyandria. Sex: Syst: 
Gen. Cuan. Sepals coriaceous, nearly equal, erect after flow- 
ering: petals somewhat knife-shaped, obliquely acuminated,: deci- 
-duous : ovary 5-celled: styles 5, often united to near the apex: 
capsule 5-celled, somewhat coriaceous. 
(1) N. Mysorensis, (Arn) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 99. 
Syn. Hypericum Mysorense, Herb. Madr. 
Engrav. Wight’s Icon. t. 56. 
Srzc. Cuar. Shrub: young branches 4-angled: leaves oppo- 
site, crowded, oblong-lanceolate, acute, upper ones half-stem-clasp- 
ing: lateral veins running almost straight and parallel to each other, 
nearly to the apex of the leaf: pellucid dots roundish, oblong and 
-long-linear : black dots none: flowers solitary at the extremities of 
1-8 short, leafy branchlets: sepals ovate, unequal, almost quite dis- 
. tinct, without black dots: petals not dotted: flowers yellow. 
Neilgherries and mountainous districts in the Southern Frovinces, 
*Mysore. Flowering in the hot season, 
(2) N. Hooxeriana. (W. § A.) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 99. 
Syn. Hypericum Hookerianum, W. & 4. 
Eagrav, Wight’s Icon. t. 959, 
