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tion be right, is properly placed here ; but 

 Jussieu doubts it, nor does my dried spe- 

 cimen serve to remove the uncertainty. 

 Stilago proves to be merely the barren 

 plant of Antidesma alexiteria, and belongs 

 to Dioecia ; as Sisyrinchium and Ferraria 

 do to Monadelphia, the tubular united sta- 

 mens of the two last having been mistaken 

 * for a solid style. Rhopium of Schreber 

 {Meborea of A ubiety t. 323,) seems there- 

 fore the only certain genus of the Order 

 under consideration ; unless Lamarck be 

 right in referring to it Jacquin's Strumpfia, 

 upon which I have not materials to form 

 any opinion. The original discoverer at- 

 tributes to this plant 5 stamens with united 

 anthers ; hence it found a place in the 

 Syngenesia Monogamia of Linnaeus. La- 

 marck merits attention, as he appears to 

 have had an authentic specimen. See his 

 t. 731. 



4. Tetrandria. Nepenthes, of whose extra- 

 ordinary kind of leaf mention is made 

 p. 197, is the only genus of this Order in 

 Linnteus, but very erroneously placed here, 



