. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Botany. STUDIES IN THE GENUS HYPERICUM L. apical internode, often with 1-3-flowered branches from middle of stem; pedicels 3-7 mm long; bracts narrowly oblong, deciduous. Flowers 15-30 mm in diam., ± deeply cyathiform; buds broadly ovoid to globose, obtuse to rounded. Sepals 3-5-6(9) x (1)2-5(6-5) mm, free, imbricate, subequal or unequal, erect in bud and fruit, oblong or elliptic to obovate-spathulate, rounded or very rarely obtuse, with margin entire, narrowly hyaline; midrib not or scarcely distinct, veins not or rarely slightly promin- ent
. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Botany. STUDIES IN THE GENUS HYPERICUM L. apical internode, often with 1-3-flowered branches from middle of stem; pedicels 3-7 mm long; bracts narrowly oblong, deciduous. Flowers 15-30 mm in diam., ± deeply cyathiform; buds broadly ovoid to globose, obtuse to rounded. Sepals 3-5-6(9) x (1)2-5(6-5) mm, free, imbricate, subequal or unequal, erect in bud and fruit, oblong or elliptic to obovate-spathulate, rounded or very rarely obtuse, with margin entire, narrowly hyaline; midrib not or scarcely distinct, veins not or rarely slightly promin- ent; laminar glands linear, numerous. Petals golden to deep yellow, not tinged red, incurved, 9-18 x 5-12 mm, 2-5-3 x sepals, broadly obovate to subcircular, with apiculus lateral to subterminal, rounded to obscure; margin entire, without infra- marginal gland dots. Stamen fascicles each with 40-60 stamens, longest 4-6(8) mm long, 0-25-0-5 x petals; anthers golden to deep yellow. Ovary 3-5 x 2-5-3 mm, broadly ovoid to globose; styles 2-5-4-5 mm long, 0-6-0-9(1) x ovary, erect and ± divergent near apex or wholly outcurving; stigmas narrowly capitate. Capsule 7-11(13) x 7-11 mm, subglobose (or more rarely broadly ovoid) to globose. Seeds dark brown, 0-4-0-6 mm long, cylindric-ellipsoid, scarcely carinate, shallowly linear- foveolate. 2n = 20. In dry, open habitats (grassy or rocky slopes, open woodland, pastures, cliff edges), and sometimes in thickets and by streams; 1500-3600 m. China (Xizang [Tibet]), Burma (Kachin, Chin), India (Manipur, Mizoram?, Naga- land, Meghalaya), Bhutan and Himalaya west to Pakistan (Sarghoda). Maps 23,24. CHINA. Xizang [Tibet]: Senge Dzong, nearTawang, 2700 m, , Bailey 12 (E); Rima, 1500 m, 1 1950, Kingdon Ward 20121 (BM). BURMA. Kachin: Bhamo, 1908, , (E); Adung Valley, vicinity of Tahawndam, , Kingdon Ward 10153 (BM). Chin: Mt. Victoria, Old Kanpelet, , Cooper 5922A (E, SING). INDIA. Manipur: Kho
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