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Shrubs or perennial herbs, glabrous, usually glandular. Steins 
erect. Leaves opposite, sessile or nearly so, simple, entire ; 
stipules none. Flowers regular, 2-sexual, yellow, in cymes or 
corymbs, usually terminal, sometimes combined in panicles. 
Sepals and petals 5 each, free, imbricate. Stamens numerous, 
united at the base in 3 or 5 distinct bundles, anthers 2-celled, 
versatile. Ovary 3- or 5-celled ; ovules many ; styles 3 or 5, 
simple, distinct. Capsule opening from the top by 3 or 5 valves. 
Seeds numerous, small. 
Shrubs. Stamens in 5 bundles. Styles 5. 
Petals rather longer than the stamens. Styles twice 
as long as the ovary. 
Branches terete. Flowers 2 in. diam. Sepals ovate 1 . H. cernuum. 
Branches 4-angled. Flowers 1-1^ in. diam. 
Sepals lanceolate . . . . 2. H. lysimachioides. 
Petals twice as long as the stamens. Styles not 
longer than the ovary . . . . 3. H. patulum. 
Perennial herbs. Stamens in 3 sets. Styles 3. 
Stems 2-angled. Sepals entire . . . . 4. H. perforatum. 
Stems terete. Sepals fringed with stalked glands . 5. H. elodeoides. 
1. Hypericum cernuum, Roxb. ; FI. Br. Ind. 1. 253. A shrub, 
3-6 ft., branches terete. Leaves ovate about 3 X 1 J in., or oblong- 
lanceolate 1J-3 x 2~1 in., each pair of leaves placed at right 
angles to the next pair above or below it. Flowers 2 in. diam., in 
