14. HYPERICACEiE . 
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It is however, speaking generally, an early, regular and abun- 
dant bearer: a tr. not above 4 or 5 ft. high yielding two or 
three score of fr. ; and it is moreover particularly exempt from 
blight whether of Insects or Fungi. — The large-fruited var. a. 
major (Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 608), with fr. sometimes 5 in. in diam., 
is the famous Mandarin Orange of China. It does not occur in 
Madeira. 
Order XIV. H YPERIC ACEiE . 
The St. John’s Wort Family. 
Sep. 4 or 5 distinct or partly connected mostly persistent 
often unequal glandular-dotted, imbricate in the bud. Pet. 4 
or 5 often glandular-dotted, twisted in the bud. Stam. mostly 
indefinite numerous and polyadelphous or united in 3-5 sets or 
bundles ; fil. filiform ; anth. bilocular versatile. Styles 2-5. 
Carpels 2-5. Fr. capsular rarely fleshy 2-5-celled 2-5-valved. 
Seeds minute numerous ; embryo straight mostly exalbuminous. 
— L. without stip. entire mostly opposite and sprinkled with 
pellucid dots. FI. mostly y. and cyrnose. 
1. Hypericum. Sep. 5 often unequal and more or less 
united at the base. Pet. 5. Stam. many polyadelphous 
at the base. Styles 3-5. Caps, more or less completely 
3-5-celled. FI. always y. 
1. Hypericum L. 
St. John’s Wort. 
* Shrubby. Sep. very unequal. Pet. deciduous. Styles 3-5. 
I. H. grandifolium Chois. Malforada, i. e. Milfurada. 
Smooth ; branches round horizontal or declining ; 1. regularly 
2- ranked in one plane ovate-oblong , at first acute, then obtuse 
or even retuse, heart-shaped amplexicaul or sessile pellucid- 
reticulate not dotted ; cymes few-jl. ; ped. short 2-bracteate ; 
sep. very entire oblong-lanceolate somewhat acute much shorter 
than the cor. presently rejlexed ; styles 3-4. — DC. i. 544. 
II. erectum Buch ! 196. no. 324. Androscemum Webbianum 
Spach in Ann. Sci. ser. 2. v. 362 ; WB. ! i. 50, 51. t. 4 E. — 
Shr. per. Mad. reg. 2, 3 ; ccc. Rocks everywhere chiefly above 
1000 ft. Sum.-Aut., but at almost all seasons. — Shr. 2-4 ft. 
high, the branches reddish or cinnamon-brown sparingly di- 
vided elongated declining or loosely spreading horizontally with 
handsome regularly distichous foliage. L. large 1-2 in. long, 
1-li in. broad very entire slightly glaucous beneath. FI. rather 
large but in small bunches. Sep. very unequal and entire 
slightly punctate 3 or 4 times shorter than the deciduous pet. 
