372 IIO.Jr.TUS J AM AI GENS IS, 



HtLLlA 



its long, slender, flexile, and opposite branches to a.moclcrate distance. The. flowers . 

 are soroelimes impregnated with a smell perfectly like that of Kuvopean meadow-sweet; 

 bill tliis is not observed in every plant of tiie same species, nor con^iunt even in the 

 saiii(i blossoms. Bro-wm', 



12. IVCEFOLR'M. IVY-LEArFD. 



I.eaves narrow-lanceolate, three-nerved, f.ubserratc ; calyxes sq^arrose, many- 

 flowered, 



Stem sub-he.rbaceoiis, two feet high, erect, strict, branched, hispid ; branches 

 piurple, elongated; leaves petioled, opposite, somewhat rugged ; lower ones lan<;co- 

 late, longer, spreiuliiig. Peduncles terminating, and in the axils of the upper leaves, 

 opposite, filifonn, mostly trichptoniouSj but the last one-flowered; flowers small, blue*- 

 This i:? couuuon in Jamaica. S'w. 



IlERCtJLEsT^ei? Prickly Yrllow Wood. . 



No E)is'ush Name. niLI.IA; 



Cl. 6j on. 1. Ileiandria monogyriia. Nai. oR. Contorttc. 



Thisrvcas so named by Jacquin in honour of Sir John Hill, author of many lar^s 

 books on, botany. 



Gen. char.: Calyx a double perianth ; lower six-leaved, leaflets opposite, unequal, 

 oidong, entire; the two inner smaller, coiliracing the germ, deciduous, coloured ; 

 upper two or four-leaved ; leaUfits .lanceolate-acute, erect, permaueni ; corolla 

 otic-petaled ; tube cylindric, vcj-y, long, striated, towards the border venlricose ; 

 bortiei" six-cleft, clefts long, reflex, contorted, revolute ; stamens six very short 

 iilauients, inserted below the border into the belly of the lube; andiers oblong,, 

 two-celled, witliin tiie throat of the corolla ; the pistil has an inferior oblong germ, 

 obscurely six.-cornereil ; style filiform, thick, the length of the tube; stigma 

 tliickened,. compressed, bifid; the pericarp an elongated capsule, angular, two- 

 celled,, opening, longitudinally into two valves, crowned with the leaflets of the.- 

 upper calyx ; seeds numerou-^, pappose, round a linear receptacle ; dowiL.capil- 

 larv^ There ai=e two species, both natives of Jamaica. 



1. LONGIFLORA. LONG-FLOWERED.. 



Corollas six-cleft, clefts lanceolate, .revolute ; leaves ovate, acute.- 



Tliis is a shrub with an ascending stem, a fathom in height, branched, loose, smooth, 

 biittle, covered with an ash-coloured shining bark ; branches simple, leafy, round, 

 smooth, brittle. Leaves, opposite, decussated, . spreading, entire, scarcely nervedj^, 

 veinless, very smooth, somewiiat rigid, on round smooth petioles. Flowers terminat- 

 ing, sessile, solitary, very long, white, very sweet ; upper calyx two'-leaved, some-. 

 times but seldom four-leaved ; the lower has from four to six leaves ; tube of the co- 

 rolla three or four inches long, segments of the border an inch in length, anthers whit 

 .h\\; stigma .clammy, dark green j capsule from one to two indies long, tlightly hexa- 

 gonal^ 



