464 GYNANDRIA. 



for it belongs to Dioecia Monadelphia* 

 The Order however must be retained for 

 the sake of Sty Helium, a New Holland 

 genus, related, as above mentioned, to 

 For st era. This is my Ventenatia, Exot* 

 Bot. t. 66, 67 ; but another genus having 

 previously, without my knowledge, re- 

 ceived the latter denomination, that of 

 St ■?/ Helium, under which I had, some time 

 ago, communicated this genus to the French 

 botanists*', and which they have adopted, 

 becomes established. See La Billardiere's 

 excellent work on New Holland plants, 

 where several species of it are figured. 



5. Pentanclria. The original genera of this 

 Order, Ayenia, Glut a, and Passifiora, 

 Exot. Bot. t. C 2S, most unquestionably have 

 nothing to do with it, their stamens being 

 inserted below the germen, merely on a 



* I was not aware of Loureiro's Stylidium, a plant, 

 according to his description, of the 7th Class; FL 

 Cochinck. v. 1. 221 ; but this can scarcely interfere with 

 ours, heing probably, as it grows about Canton, some 

 well-known shrub that happened to have a 7-cleft flower. 

 It should seem to belong to the Ruliacece, notwithstand- 

 ing some points in the description. 



