. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Botany. STUDIES IN THE GENUS HYPERICUM L. Icon: Milne-Redh. in Curtis's hot. Mag. 157: t. 9345 (1934). Shrub 0-5-1 m tall, spreading, with branches pendulous to somewhat prostrate. Stems red, 4-lined and ancipitous when young, becoming 2-lined, eventually terete; internodes 10-45 mm long, shorter than to equalling leaves; bark grey-brown. Leaves petiolate, with petiole 0-5-1-5 mm long; lamina 23-55(-60) x (6-)12-29 mm, elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate to lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, subacute or apiculate- obtuse to rounded, margin plane, bas
. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Botany. STUDIES IN THE GENUS HYPERICUM L. Icon: Milne-Redh. in Curtis's hot. Mag. 157: t. 9345 (1934). Shrub 0-5-1 m tall, spreading, with branches pendulous to somewhat prostrate. Stems red, 4-lined and ancipitous when young, becoming 2-lined, eventually terete; internodes 10-45 mm long, shorter than to equalling leaves; bark grey-brown. Leaves petiolate, with petiole 0-5-1-5 mm long; lamina 23-55(-60) x (6-)12-29 mm, elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate to lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, subacute or apiculate- obtuse to rounded, margin plane, base broadly cuneate to rounded, paler or ± glaucous beneath, chartaceous; venation: 4-5 pairs main laterals, with midrib obscurely branched distally, with scarcely visible tertiary reticulum; laminar glands dots and short to longish streaks, ventral glands sparse or absent. Inflorescence (l)3-c. 22-flowered, from 1(2) node(s), subcorymbiform; pedicels 8—12 mm long; bracts foliar to narrowly lanceolate, deciduous? Flowers 40-50(-60) mm in diam., stellate; buds narrowly ovoid, acute to subacuminate. Sepals 7-10 x 2-4-5 mm, free, imbricate, equal, ± erect in bud and fruit, lanceolate or narrowly elliptic, acutely acuminate to shortly aristate, with margin entire; midrib conspicuous, veins not prominent; laminar glands linear, c. 10. Petals golden yellow, not tinged red, spreading, 20-25 x 12-20 mm, 2-5-3 x sepals, obovate, with apiculus subterminal, acute; margin minutely glandular denticulate towards apex or entire. Stamen fas- cicles each with 30-35 stamens, longest 10-15 mm long, 0-35-0-5 x petals; anthers golden yellow. Ovary 5-6 x 3-3-5 mm, ± broadly ovoid; styles 7-9 mm long, c. 1-5-1-8 x ovary, free, erect, outcurved at apex; stigmas small. Capsule 7-11 x 5-6 mm, ovoid. Seeds dark orange-brown, narrowly cylindric, scarcely carinate, ± shallowly linear-reticulate. 2n = ? Cliffs and thickets; (6007)1000-1750 m. China (W. Hubei, E. Sichuan and possibly Jiangsu; also record
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