MONADEXPHIA. 43& 



Hortus KewensLs. Phtia is, I believe justly, 

 placed here by Schreber and Willdenow. 



5. Decandria. Geranium^ properly so caffed, 

 Engl Bot. t. 404, 405, 272, &c, is the 

 principal genus here. The late Professor 

 Cavanilles, however, in his Dissertationes 

 Bofanictf, referred to this Order a vast 

 number of genera, never before suspected 

 to belong to it, asBdnnisterih, Malpig&ia, 

 Turrcca, Melia, &c, on account of scfene 

 fancied union of their filaments, perhaps 

 through the medium of a tubular nectary ; 

 which principle is absolutely inadmissible ; 

 for we might just as well refer to Mona- 

 delphia every plant whose filaments are 

 connected by insertion into a tubular co- 

 rolla. Some species of Oxalic see p. 424, 

 belong to this Order ; as do several pa- 

 pilionaceous genera, of which we shall 

 speak under the next Class. 



6. Endecandfia contains only the splendfd 



South-American genus Bvppynect, trie num- 

 ber of whose stamens is different in differ- 

 ent species. 



7- Dodccandriu, Stamens mostly 15, is cdm- 



