Dicotyledons with Polypetalous Flowers. 
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Natural Order 
HYPERICINEAL Tab. 13. 
Diagnosis.— Herbs or shrubs with opposite leaves. Flowers regular. 
Stamens hypogynous, indefinite. Pistil syncarpous. Ovary wholly or 
partially 3-5-celled. Seeds exalbuminous. 
Distribution.— A small Natural Order, generally diffused throughout the Temperate and Tropical 
zonesi St. Johns Wort ( Hypericum ), the only genus represented in Europe, includes considerably 
more than one-half of the Order. 
One British Genus ; Species, 9. 
LEAVES frequently dotted with translucent glands. 
FLOWERS yellow, regular, usually in terminal cymes. 
Sepals 5-4, distinct, frequently bordered, as are the Petals, with minute black glands. 
Petals 5-4, imbricate, often oblique. 
Stamens more or less distinctly united below in 3 or 5 bundles. 
Fruit a capsule. 
USES, &c.—None of the Order possess much economic importance. Several are resinous, and a few American 
species have been used in medicine. Shrubby species of St. John’s Wort from South Europe and the Atlantic 
Islands are frequently grown in shrubberies. 
Natural Order 
TERNSTRCEMIACETi. Tab. 14. 
.—An extra-European ligneous Natural Order nearly allied to 
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