PLATE CXLV. 
“HILLTA LONGIFLORA. 
Long: flowered Hilla. 
CLASS VI. 
HEXANDRLA MONOGYNL4. Six Chives. 
ORDER I. 
One Pointal. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Catyx. Perianthium hexaphyllum; foliolis ob- 
longis, acutis, erectis. 
CoroLta monopetala; tubus cylindricus, lon- 
giffimus; limbus fexfidus; laciniis oblongis, 
nis. 
Sramina. Filamenta fex, breviffima. Antherz 
oblonge, erectz, intra faucem corolle. 
EmpaLeMent. Cup fix-leaved; leaflets oblong, 
fharp pointed and upright 
Bossom one petal, tube cylindrical, very long; 
border fix-cleft; fegments oblong, 
Cuives. Threads fix very fhort. Tips oblong, 
upright, within the mouth of the bloffom. 
Pistittum. Germen inferum, oblongum, ob- Ponta. Seed-bud beneath oblong, flightly 
folete hexagonum. Stylus filiformis, lon- fix-fided. Shaft thread-fhaped, the length 
of the tube. Summit headed. 
gitudine tubi. Stigma capitatum. 
Pericarrium oblongum, compreffum, bilocu- 
lare. ‘ 
__ Semiva numerofa, minima. 
Po . 
SEED-vEssEL oblong, flattened and two celled. 
Sexps many, very {fmall, 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Hillia with bloffoms fix cleft, fegments lance- 
fhaped, convex above; leaves egg-fhaped, 
pointed and {mooth. 
Hillia corollis fexfidis, laciniis lanceolatis, fupra 
convexis; foliis ovatis, acutis, glabris. 
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
?. A flower cut open, to expofe the number and fituation of the Chives. 
. 2. The Shaft and its fummit, natural fize, placed by the flower, to thew its 2 Manager 
length to the tube. 
3. The Seed-bud, with the leaflets of the Empalement attached, cut iransvertely! to fhew 
— divifion of the cells in the center. 
Paci of Hillia was firft introduced to our gardens in the year 1789, from the Ifland of Bar- 
» fent in plants, by Mr.J. Elcock, to Meffrs. Lee and Kennedy, Hammerfmith. Originally 
fhrab was fpecifically termed, parasitica by profeffor Jacquin, when he firft formed, and titled 
the Genns, after Dr. J. Hill, of voluminous memory ; from a fuppofition that it was to. be found 
ae _-Srowing; only, upon fome other plant; a circumftanee, which being denied by Swartz, he has altered 
BS to longiflora, We have followed the latter name that ours may go in unifon with the author of 
~ the laft Species plantarum now publifhing by Willdenow, as well as profeffor } Martyn, who in his 
edition of Miller’s DiGtionary has followed Swartz; they appearing to be the moft accurate, as well as 
the moft read and followed of any modern Botanical authorities. It is a tender hot-houfe plant, ftrikes 
eafily from cuttings, thrives in rich mould and flowers about the end of February. To the Right 
Hon. Lord Vifcount Valentia we are indebted, for the [pecimen from which our figure was taken, 
_ fent from his Lordfhip’s famed collection at Arley near “ogee tare where, we believe, it 
~ has flowered for the firft time in England. 
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