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HYPERICUM eegypticum. 
Egyptian St. John’s-wort. 
POLYADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. Hyrrrica. Jussieu gen. 254. : 
HYPERICUM. Cal. 5-partitus equalis, Pet. 5. Stam. varié poly- 
adelpha. Styli 3 aut 5 aut rariis 2; stigmata totidem. Caps. (bacca in 
Androsemo) loculis et valvis totidem. Herb: aut frutices suffruticesve; 
caules cylindracet aut ancipites aut 4-goni; folia opposita sepe punctato- 
pellucida ; flores oppositi nonnunguadm cymosi, pleriimque corymbost pedun- 
culis sepe trichotomis 3-floris terminalibus aut et axillaribus. Juss. 
Div. Trigyna, calycibus integerrimis. 
H. egypticum floribus trigynis, nectariis petalorum lanceolatis, caulibus 
__ suffruticosis compressis. Linn. sp. pl. 2. 1103. 
Hypericum xgypticum, Linn. amen.‘acad. 8. 323. tab. 8. fic. 3. Hort. 
Kew. 3.105. ed. 2. 4, 429. Lamarck encyc. 4. 160. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 
1467. 
Fruticulus erectus subpedalis, prope de basi brachiato-ramosissimus, flori« 
bundus ; rami teretes patuli, juniores toti foliati ramulisque solitariis brevibus 
axillaribus subsexfoliatis apice unifloris uno terminali decussato-paniculati. 
Folia sessilia, decussata, patentia, coriaceo-crassa, glauco-pruinata, subbili-~ 
nearia, ovato-elliptica, acuta, plana, avenia, non pellucido-punctata, inter- 
nodiis sublongiora. Flores parvuli, erecti, solitarii, terminales, lutei. Calyx 
inter bracteas foliaceas 2 oppositas ipsi duplo breviores sessilis, viridi-lutescens, 
| Sepius rubore tinctus, connivens, equalis unguibus petalorum, persistens ; 
foliola ovata, convexa, acutula integerrima, duriuscula. Cor. campanulata, 
Slava, pellucido-lineata viz % partem uncie alta; pet. spathulato-oblonga, 
- inferne in tubum conniventia superné recurvo-patentia, obtusa, squamuld 
lineari-oblongaé ob marginis attenuati inflectionem concava uniuscujusque ungue 
longitudinalitér intis adnatd. Staminum phalanges 3, erect, dbo tarts 
longiores, pede tubuloso compresso pallido supra in filamenta distincta ipst 
breviora secedente: anth. subrotunde, flave, introversa.  Pistillum pallidum, 
pedibus stamineis brevius, ovato-oblongum, trilobo-trigonum angels rotunda= 
tis; styli 3 loborum totidem rostratim continui, brevissimi, replicati, stigma- 
tibus totidem papuloso-convexis pariim latioribus terminati. Corpuscula 3 
intra calycem hypogyna subrotunda lutea lobos germinis basi intercipientia. 
Deflorata corolla arcté connivet calyzx. 
, 
In Willdenow’s Species Plantarum, in the late edition 
of the Hortus Kewensis, and indeed in all the recent enu- 
merations of plants, this species has been deposited in a 
section of the genus intended for those with serrately and. 
glandularly edged bractes and calyx, while it really belongs 
to that which comprises such species as have bractes 
and calyx with a glandless and entire edge: a mistake 
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