253 XXI. ELATiNE^. (W. T. Thiselton Dyer.) [Bergia. 



Thrcyughout India and Ceylox ; in marshy places. — ^Distkib. Affghanistan, Persia, 

 Tropical Asia, Africa, and Australia. 



Stems 3-12 in., erect or with the lower branches decumbent, smooth or thinly pubes- 

 cent-hispid, the stem-hairs often glandular-capitate. Leaves J-f in., sessile, linear, 

 lanceolate or oblanceolate, tapering below, sharply serrate, acute. Flowers yV ™-i 

 sessile or shortly pedioelled. Sepah 5, lanceolate, denticulate. Petals and stamens 5. 

 Ovary oblong, deeply grooved. Capsule 3-6-celled ; valves with incurved edges, Je- 

 hi.scing from a central axis. Seeds numerous, ovoid. 



Vak. trimera ; Fisoh. & Mey. in Linnsea, x. 74 (sp.) ; flowers trimerous. B. ammau- 

 nioides /3 flor. triaudr. ; Wight in Hook. Bot. Misc. iii. d3, t. 28, f. 1 and 2 ; Leohea 

 verticillata, WiJld. ex DC. Prod. i. 286. — Western Peninsula and Ceylon. 



. 4. B. verticillata, WiUd. ; Roxh. Fl. Ind. iL 456 ; glabrous, stems 

 procumbent rooting, stamens 10. Thw. Enwm. 23. Elatine (B) verticillata, 

 W. <Se A. Prodr. 41. B. aquatica, Moxb. Carom. PL ii. 22, t. 142 ; Boiss. Ft. 

 Orient, ii. 783. B. capensis, Linn. ; Rheede Hort. Mai. ix. t. 78. 



Westekn Peninsdi.a, Cbyloh and RAKflooN. — Distrib. Widely spread in the tropica 

 but absent from S. Africa. 



A glabrous rather succulent annual aquatic herb, 4-1 ft. Leaves l-lj in., spreading, 

 elliptic-lanceolate, tapering at either end, acute, faintly crenate-serrate ; stipules nar- 

 rowly deltoid, toothed, acute. Sepals 5, narrow-lanceolate, obliquely acuminate, midrib 

 herbaceous. Petals 5. Capsiile globose ovoid. Seeds minute, slightly curved, ribbed 

 and transversely rugose. — Not a native of the Cape, Lianaeus's original name has there- 

 fore been suppressed. 



Oedee XXII. HYPi:RICI]VE.a:. (By W. T. Thiselton Dyer, F.L.S.) 



Herbs or shrubs, rarely trees. Leaves opposite, often punctate with' pel- 

 lucid glands or dark glandular dots, entire or glandular-toothed ; stipules 0. 

 Flowers solitary or cymose, terminal, rarely axillary. Sepals and petids each 

 5, rarely 4 ; petals contorted in bud. Stamens qo , or rarely definite, 3- or 

 5-adelphous, rarely free or all connate ; anthers versatile. Ovary 3-5-carpel- 

 lary, 1- or 3-5-celled ; styles as many, filiform, free or united ; ovules few or 

 00, on parietal or axile placentas, anatropous, raphe lateral or superior. 

 Fruit capsular or baccate. Seeds exalbumiiious ; embryo straight or 



rarved.^DiSTKiB. Temp., and mountains of warm regions ; genera 8, species 



ibout 210. 



Tkibe 1 . Kypericese. Capsule dehiscing septicidally or at the placentas. 

 Seeds not winged. 



Flowers 4Tmerous 1. AacTBnM. 



Flowers 5-merous 2. Htpeeicum. ' 



Tkibe 2. Cratoxylese. Gapside dehiscing loculicidaUy. Seeds winged. 



3. Ckatoxylon. 

 1. ASCYRUBI, Linn. 



Herbs or shrubs. Leaves small, entire. Flowers terminal, nearly solitary, 

 yellow, 4-merous. Sevals\%a,iy, the 2 outer largest. Stamens slightly connate 

 or free. Ovary 1-celled. Capsule 2-4-valved, dehiscing at the placentas. — 

 DisTEiB. Except the endemic Indian species confined to N . Atner. and the 

 Antilles ; species 6. 



1. A, fillcaule, Dyer. — Hypericum filioaule, H.f. & T. ms. 

 Temfebate SlKKlM HiMAiATA ; Lachoong valley, alt. 12,000 ft., J. D. S. 



