NAT. ORDER. 
Rotacce. 
HYPERICUM MONOGYNUM. CHINESE ST. JOHN'S-WORT 
Class XVIII. Polyadelphia. Order III. Polyandria. 
Gen. Char. Calyx, five-parted. Petals, five. Filaments, many 
connected at the base into five bundles. 
Spe. Char. Stem, ancipital. Leaves, blunt, with pelucid dots. 
This species of the Hypericum generally grows to the height 
of about a foot and a half ; the root is perennial, ligneous, divided 
and sub-divided into numerous small branches, and covered with 
a straw-colored bark ; the stalks are round, smooth, of a light 
color, and towards the top send off many opposite floriferous 
branches ; the leaves are without footstalks, and placed in pairs ; 
they are entire, oval, and beset with a great number of minute 
transparent vesicles, which have the appearance of small perfora- 
tions through the disc ; the Jloivers are numerous, pentapetalous, 
terminal, of a deep yellow color, and grow in a corymbus, or in 
clusters, upon short peduncles ; each petal is of an irregular oval 
shape, and, on the under side, nea,r the apex, is marked with many 
blackish spots ; the calyx consists of five persistent acute leaves ; 
the stamens are numerous, and most generally are found united at 
their base into three portions, or bundles ; the anthers are yellow, 
and marked with a small black gland ; the styles are three ; and 
the capsules have three cells, which contain many small oblong, 
brownish seeds. It grows most common in woods, and uncultiva- 
ted grounds ; and flowers in July. 
Of this genus one hundred and thirty-four are enumerated, 
Vol. iii. —33. 
