Hypericum lanceolatum Lam.

Much branched evergreen glabrous shrub or tree, 1–12 m. high, with scaly bark.. Young stems 4-angled, but soon becoming woody and terete.. Leaves lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, ranging from 11 x 2.5 mm. to 37 x 10 mm, acute, narrowed to a clasping base, furnished with pinnate venation and longitudinal interrupted linear, often translucent, glands and inconspicuous translucent (rarely opaque black) marginal glandular dots.. Flowers solitary at the ends of the branches.. Bracts (if any) leaflike, with black opaque marginal dots.. Sepals unequal, ovate, rather concave, obtuse, with black opaque marginal dots.. Petals (1.5) 2.5–3.0 cm. long, yellow, without black marginal dots.. Stamens in 5 bundles of about 30 each.. Styles 5, united in the lower part.. Capsule 5-valved.