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viscid woolly leaves, and red and wliite flowers. Native of 
round. (Fig. 165.) 
? Flowers nearly all tlie year 
A* viscida; undique pilis viscidis tomentosa, foliis ovatis oblongisque crenatis, cymis pedunculatis axillaribus pauci. 
floris, corolla basi supeme gibbosa tubo rectiusculo limbo 5-lobo laciniis rotundatis subeequalibus, ovario hix'suto. 
In what work the name which this plant bears in the gardens has been proposed we have failed to discover. It was 
imported from the continent, and is believed to be one of Linden's plants, but can hardly be the Achimenes atrosanguinea 
of Morren. A half inferior ovary, a complete narrow annulus, a fifth abortive 
stamen in addition to the four perfect ones^ and the nearly equal limb of the 
corolla, seem to pronounce the plant an Achimenes, although the habit is 
more that of an Isolome. It is a soft and not handsome hothouse plant, from 
two to three feet high, closely covered with long, slender, delicate hairs, from 
whose points a green viscid substance is continually exuding. The calyx is 
regularly five-lobed; the corolla of a uniform deep crimson, with the inside of 
the tube, and the orifice of the throat, nearly white; at the base 
of the tube is a circular swelling which is more considerable on 
the upper than the under side, and upon the inner face of this 
swelling stand five stamens with broad fleshy bases, the fifth of . 
which is generally straight and sterile, but sometimes as perfect 
as the others. 
The stigma is slightly two-lobed— the lobes 
expanding right and left as m other species of Achimenes. 
330. HiLLiA PARASITICA. Jacqutn. 
longiflora Swartz,) A handsome hothouse creeper, 
with 
long 
trumpet-shaped, cream-coloured. 
Belongs to Cinchonads. Native of the West Indies. 
(Fig. 166.) 
Jacquin, who fii'st discovered 
this plant overrunning trees and 
old walls in the dense damp woods 
of Mount Calebasse, in Martinique, ' 
called it a Parasite. It however 
deserves that name no more than 
ivy, to which it may be compared 
as to its habit ; striking roots 
into soil, or clinging to rotten 
bark when it comes in contact 
with it, or rising feebly from tlie 
ground if there is nothing to cling 
to. It is very rarely seen in gar- 
dens ; and yet it is one of the 
easiest of plants to cultivate, re- 
quiring the same treatment as 
would suit the now common Ste- 
phanote. Its leaves are firm, 
rather fleshy, dejep green, and 
handsome. The flowers are four 
inches long, with a slender tube, 
and six reflexed divisions; towards the mouth the tube of the corolla becomes inflated like the mouth of a trumpet- 
they are a delicate cream-colour when first opened, but soon acquire the peculiar yellow tint observed hi Gardenia 
Fortum, and other species of that genus. According to De CandoUe, this is found not only m Martinique, but in 
Guadaloupe, Jamaica, Cuba, and the hot parts of Mexico. 
