462 GYNANDiKlA. 



be expected in the family under considera- 

 tion. Vahl appears by the preface to his 

 E/iumerajAMi! ant arum to have removed 

 the ScitavUfite to Gynandria, because the 

 stamen of Canna adheres to the style. 

 This, if constant, could only concern that 

 genus, for the rest of the Order are in no 

 sense gynandrous. 



2. Diandria. To this Order Cypripedimn, 

 Engl. Bot. t. 1, must be referred, having 

 a pair of very distinct double-celled anthers. 

 See Tr. of Linn. Soc. v. 1 , t. 2, 3. Here 

 we find Forstera, so well illustrated by 

 Professor Swartz in Sims and Roni^s An- 

 nak of Botany, i).l. 291, t.6; of which 

 genus Phyllachne, t. 5 of the same volume, 

 is justly there reckoned a species. Of the 

 same natural order with Forstera is Styli- 

 dium, but that having 4 anthers, belongs 

 to the fourth Order of the present Class. 

 Gunnera, placed by Linnaeus in Gynandria 

 Diandria, is not yet sufficiently well un- 

 derstood. 



3. Triandria. Salacia, if Linnaeus's descrip- 



