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PLANTS INDIGENOUS TO 
[Hypericinece. 
Comesperma ciliatum of S.W. Australia is nearly allied to our species, but has very small and ciliated 
leaves, shorter capsules and seeds which are regularly and closely wrinkled near the edges, whilst the middle 
ridges of the testa are even. The testa is equally as in C. volubile destitute of short hair and villose at the 
margin only. C. integerrimum, also from S.W. Australia, the only other allied plant, will at once be recog¬ 
nized by its yellow flowers. 
IX.— GUTTIFEBJE. 
Calyx in prtefiorescence imbricate. Corolla involute or imbricate in bud. Sta¬ 
mens more frequently indefinite than definite, often concrete into bundles. Placen- 
tation central, rarely sutural. Albumen usually wanting. Embryo mostly straight. 
Order HYPERICINEiE. 
Juss. Gen . 254. 
Elowers bisexual. Calyx consisting of 5, rarely 4, sepals or lobes, two of which 
exterior, all persistent, rarely calyptrate-colierent and deciduous. Petals 5, rarely 
4, alternate with the sepals, equal, convolute or involute in bud. Stamens indefinite , 
united into 3 or 5 bundles , rarely monaclelphous or free. Anthers clorsifixed, bicelled, 
opening with introrse longitudinal dehiscence. Ovarium perfectly or incompletely 
3-5-celled, very seldom 6-12-celled. Ovules indefinite, rarely definite. Styles 3-5, 
rarely 6-12, free or imperfectly connate. Stigmas free. Emit capsular, dry or fleshy, 
completely or imperfectly 3-5-celled, rarely 6-12-celled, opening by septicidal rarely 
by loculicidal dehiscence. Seeds without strophiole. Placentae central or attached 
to the edge of the septa or of the valves. Albumen none or very scanty. Embryo 
straight, seldom curved. Radicle next to the hilum. 
Herbs, shrubs or trees, not seldom resin&us, dispersed over the temperate and 
warmer parts of the globe, more frequent in the temperate parts of the northern 
hemisphere and within the tropics of America, than in tropical Asia or Africa, very 
rare in Australia. Stipules wanting. Leaves usually opposite, sometimes verticillate, 
always simple, often dotted with pellucid glands. Inflorescence prevailingly cymose 
or paniculate. Petals unequilateral, usually yellow. Seeds almost always numerous 
and minute, sometimes winged. Septa formed by the indexed valves.— Choisy, Prodr. 
Hypericin. 1821; Lindl. Veg. Kingd. ed. iii. 405 ; Spach, in Suites d Buffon, v. 335, 
and in Nouv. Annal. Scienc. Nat. 349 ; Payer, Traite d' Organog. comp. 1-8, tab. i. 
This order, although standing in nearest relationship to Clusiacese, may also in 
many regards be compared to Lineae. The Tasmanian Eucryphia is restricted to 
that island. Besides this and Hypericum no other genera are known from Australia. 
