[Illustration: _Vol. =III.=_ _of the_ Botanists Repository _Comprising, Colour’d Engravings_ of _New and Rare Plants_ ONLY With Botanical Descriptions, &c. ----_in_---- _Latin and English, after the_ Linnæan System. _by H. Andrews_ _Botanical Painter Engraver &c._ ] PLATE CXLV. HILLIA LONGIFLORA. _Long-Flowered Hillia._ CLASS VI. ORDER I. _HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA._ Six Chives. One Pointal. GENERIC CHARACTER. CALYX. Perianthium hexaphyllum; foliolis oblongis, acutis, erectis. COROLLA monopetala; tubus cylindricus, longissimus; limbus sexfidus; laciniis oblongis, planis. STAMINA. Filamenta sex, brevissima. Antheræ oblongæ, erectæ, intra faucem corollæ. PISTILLUM. Germen inferum, oblongum, obsolete hexagonum. Stylus filiformis, longitudine tubi. Stigma capitatum. PERICARPIUM oblongum, compressum, biloculare. SEMINA numerosa, minima. EMPALEMENT. Cup six-leaved; leaflets oblong, sharp pointed and upright. BLOSSOM one petal, tube cylindrical, very long; border six-cleft; segments oblong, flat. CHIVES. Threads six very short. Tips oblong, upright, within the mouth of the blossom. POINTAL. Seed-bud beneath oblong, slightly six-sided. Shaft thread-shaped, the length of the tube. Summit headed. SEED-VESSEL oblong, flattened and two celled. SEEDS many, very small. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Hillia corollis sexfidis, laciniis lanceolatis, supra convexis; foliis ovatis, acutis, glabris. Hillia with blossoms six cleft, segments lance-shaped, convex above; leaves egg-shaped, pointed and smooth. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. A flower cut open, to expose the number and situation of the Chives. 2. The Shaft and its summit, natural size, placed by the flower, to shew its proportional length to the tube. 3. The Seed-bud, with the leaflets of the Empalement attached, cut transversely, to shew the division of the cells in the center.