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O ALYCIFI.OR/B . 
locular ; ovules numerous or solitary, anatropal 
or amphitropal ; style 1: stigmata usually 2. 
Fruit inferior 2-, or many-celled, dry or succulent : 
seeds 1 or many in each cell : albumen copious 
and hard. 
Trees shrubs or herbs, with simple, entire, opposite or 
whorled leaves, with interpetiolar stipules, or exstipulated. 
Tribe i. CIKCHONACEJE. 
Fruit capsular, 2-celled, with the cells many-seeded. Seeds 
ivinged. Albumen fleshy. 
I. Hillia. 
Calyx with the tube obovate ; the limb 2-4-par- 
tite, persistent : involucellum 2-4-leaved. Corolla 
with the tube long, terete ; throat ventricose ; 
limb 4-(5-part,ite. Stamens 4-0, included within 
the throat. Stigma thick, bifid. Capsule elongated, 
crowned with the limb of the calyx, 2-celled : 
placentae 2, central : seeds imbricated, termi- 
nating in a penicilliform tail ; embryo straight; 
albumen fleshy : radicle turned towards the 
hilum. 
Named by Jacquin in honor of Sir John Hill, author of 
several works connected with Botany and Natural His- 
tory, as well as with general Literature. 
I. Hillia tetrandra. Tetrandrous Hillia. 
Corolla 4-cleft, with the divisions ovate, sta- 
mens 4. 
Swartz, FI. Ind. Occ. G28. 
BAB. Higher mountains, on rocks and among the roots 
of trees. 
F L. July — September. 
A low straggling shrub, with the roots sending out long 
fibres, bearing small roundish fleshy ferrugineo- hirsute 
tubers. Branches smooth. Leaves obovate, rounded at 
the apex, wedge-shaped at the base, glabrous, rather thick, 
