450 SYNGENESIA. 



filaments inserted (in several parcels) into 

 the calyx. — To this Order Professor Will- 

 denow properly refers Melaleuca, Exot> 

 Bot. t. 34 — 36, 55, 56, which had previ- 

 ously stood in Polyandria, botanists hav- 

 ing only considered number and not in- 

 sert io?i in the Orders of Polyadelphia, 

 whence a double mistake has arisen, con- 

 cerning Citrus on the one hand, and Me- 

 laleaca on the other. 



S. Polyandria. Stamens very numerous, un- 

 connected with the calyx. This Order 

 consists of several genera. The most re- 

 markable is Hypericum, E?igL Bot. 1. 109? 

 1225 — 1227? &c, whose stamens are united 

 into 3 or 5 parcels, corresponding with the 

 number of its styles. Munchhausia is a 

 Lagerstromia, nor does it appear to be 

 polyadelphous at all. Linnaeus seems to 

 have intended bringing Thea into this 

 Order. 



Class 19- Syngenesia. Anthers united into 

 a tube. Flowers compound. Orders 5. 



This being truly a natural Class, its Of«? 

 ders are most of them equally so, though 



