CLASS VIII. 

 O C T A N D R I A, 



ORDER I. 

 MONOGYNIA. 



* Flowers superior. 



266. Rhexia. 268. Gaura. 



267. CEnothera. 269. Epilobium. 



270. OxYCoccus. 



* * Flowers inferior. 



271. Menziesia. 273. Dirca. 



272. Acer. 273. Jeffersonia. 



266. RHEXIA. L.—R, BrownA 



Calyx urceolate, 4 — 5 -cleft. Petals 4, inserted 

 upon the calyx. Anthers incumbent, attached to the 

 filaments behind, naked at the base. Capsule setige- 

 rous, 4-ceiied, free in the ventricose calyx ; receptacles 

 lunulate, pedicellate. Seech numerous. D. Don III. 

 JVat. Fam. Melast. in Wern. Trans. IV. p. 

 Gen. pi 636. Nu 1 1. Gen. I. p. 243. Ju s s. p. 

 330. L a 7n. Ig. t. 283. Nat. Ord. Mex astomace^ 

 Juss. 



1. R. virginica L, : stem with winged angles, somewhat 



f Rhexia, as now characterized by H. Brow n, and D. D o n, '\s a 

 North-American genus; nearly all the South- American species resembling' 

 MEtASTOMA formerly referred hither, being excluded, and now forming 

 the genus ABTOROSTEaiMA oi' Fav on, and oi Don. 

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