﻿PLATE DT. 



H ELLEN I A ALLUGHAS, 



Ceylon Hellenia. 



CLASS I. ORDER I. 



MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. One Chive. One Pointal. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 

 lyx tubulosus, bifidus. Corolla tripartita, (I Empalement tubular, two-cleft. Blossom three- 



laciniarum apicibus cucullatis. Nectariura divided ; the points of the segments are 



quadrifidura. Capsula globosa, et trivalvis, hooded. Nectarium four-cleft. Seed-vessel 



septo duplici inclusa, polysperma. Sernina j round, and three-valved, enclosed in a 



arillata. double loculament, many-seeded. Seeds 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Hellenia foliis lanceolatis, vaginantibus : flo- II Hellenia with lance-shaped sheathing leaves, 



ribus in racerais terminalibus odoratissi- with terminal racemes of flowers, which 



mis. are very sweet-scented. 



Habitat in paludibus Zeylanicis. || Native of the marshes about Col umbo. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1 . The spathe. 



2. The sheath which crowns the seed-bud, cut open. 



3. A flower divested of the chives and nectary. 



4. The honey-cup. 



5. Seed-bud, chives, and pointal. 



6. The seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 



8. The same divested of its outer coat. 



g. A central branched cord that connects the lobes. 



10. One of the lobes of the seed-vessel. 



11. The same shown inside, with die seeds exposed and one 



12. A seed without its arillus, or skinny coat. 



This fine.Monandrous plant was named Hellenia by Willdenow, after his friend Professor Hellemus: 

 **J ■*» , : ' ins us that the Allughas grows abundantly 



J" J," | ' Y' | seed an oil is extracted that m 



\ I M ' '"'. ' ' il '"'*-. in the 8th vol. of the Linnaean Transactions, has ranked it 



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