HYPERICUM BONAPARTE^. 



PRINCESS CHARLOTTE'S HYPERICUM. 



Polyandria Di-pentagynia, Linn. Hypcrica, Juss. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Calix 5-parted, segments equal. Petals 5. Sfamhw numerous, scarcely united at the 

 base. Capsule roundish ; cells equal with the number of the styles j 1, 2, 3, and 5. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Stem erect, ancipital immediately below each pair of leaves, roundish towards the 

 root. Leaves opposite, closely sessile, lanceolate-obtuse, finely punctuated 

 with pellucid dots; leaves of the branches numerous, crowded, sub-linear, 

 obtuse. Cymes crowded with small acute leaves; flowers terminal and axil- 

 lary, monogynous, petals obtuse, entire. Capsules sub-conoid — B. Comp. 

 PL Ph. 



SYNONYM. 



Hypericum, No. 6. Bart. Prod. Fl. Ph. p. 74. 

 vol. nr. 26 



