TETRANDMA; 413 



Class 4. Tetrandria. Stamens 4. — Orders 3. 



1. Monogynia. A very numerous and vari- 

 ous Order, of which the Protectees make 

 a conspicuous part, consisting of Protect, 

 Bariksia, Lambertia, Embothrhim, &c. 

 See botany of New Holland, ^. 7— 10. 

 Scabiosa, Engl Bot. t. 659; Plant ago, 

 t. 1558, 1559, remarkable for its capsula 

 circumscissa, a membranous capsule, se- 

 parating by a complete circular fissure into 

 two parts, as in the next genus, Centim- 

 culus, t. 531 ; Rubia, t. 851, and others 

 of its natural order, of whose stipulation 

 we have spoken p. 219? are found here, 

 and the curious Epimedium, t. 438. 



2. Digynia. Buffonia, t. 1313. 



Cuscutu, placed here by Linnaeus, is 

 best removed to the next class. 



3. Tetragyxia. Ilex, t. 496, a genus 

 sometimes furnished with a few barren 

 flowers, and therefore removed by Hudson 

 to the 23d class, of which it only serves 

 to show the disadvantage ; Potamogeton, 

 t. 168, 3/6, and Buppia, t. 136, are ex- 



