. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. Cratoxylon] XIII. tamaeicacej: 2. MYRICARIA, Desv.; M. Brit. Ind. i. 249. Fl. bisexual, pink or wMte, in long racemes. Stamens more or less united in a tube. Species 10, Europe, Central Asia, China. 1. M. germanica, Desv.; Brand. F. M. t. 8.—Syn. i/. bracteata, Eoyle 111. t. 44. Vern. Homhu^ Umhu, North-West Himalaya, A gregarious shrub. Leaves sessile, linear-lanceolate, generally crov^ded, less than I in. long. El. pink, on short pedicels, in
. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. Cratoxylon] XIII. tamaeicacej: 2. MYRICARIA, Desv.; M. Brit. Ind. i. 249. Fl. bisexual, pink or wMte, in long racemes. Stamens more or less united in a tube. Species 10, Europe, Central Asia, China. 1. M. germanica, Desv.; Brand. F. M. t. 8.—Syn. i/. bracteata, Eoyle 111. t. 44. Vern. Homhu^ Umhu, North-West Himalaya, A gregarious shrub. Leaves sessile, linear-lanceolate, generally crov^ded, less than I in. long. El. pink, on short pedicels, in dense cylindrical racemes often 12 in. long. Bracts longer than pedicels, ovate-lanceolate, with broad membranous lacerate margins, caducous. Abundant in the inner arid regions of the Himalaya from Iskardo to Sikkim, between 5,000 and 10,000 ft., occasionally to 15,000 ft. Chiefly in sandy stream beds, where it often covers large areas. Fl. July, Aug. Also in Tibet, Afghanistan, western and northern Asia, and on the mountains of Europe. 2. M. elegans, Eoyle; Kunawar, Spiti, Lahaul, Ladak and Zanskar, often associated with M. germanica. Leaves larger, oblanceolate, ii. white. Obdbb XIV. HYPERICACEiE. Qen. PL i, 163. {Hy^eHcinece.) (Included under GiitUferm^ Engler n, Prantl, iii 6. 205.) Herbs or shrubs, rarely trees. Leaves opposite, often punctate, entire in the species here described, stipules 0. FL bisexual, regular, cymose or solitary sepals and petals each 5, sepals imbricate, petals contorted in bud. Stamens 00 in 3 or 5 bundles, anthers versatile. Ovary of 3-5 carpels, 1- or 3-5-celled, styles filiform, free or united, ovules on parietal or axile placentas. Seeds without albumen. Capsule opening loculicidally, seeds winged . .1. Obatoxyi-on, Capsule opening septicidally or at the junction of carpels, seeds not winged .... ... Hypericum (p. 48). 1. CRATOXYLON, Blume ; M. Brit. Ind. i. 257. M. in axillary or terminal cymose panicles, sepals persistent. Fleshy hypogynous
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