478 MtiNOECU. 



justly associated with them by Schfebef, 

 though placed by Linnaeus in the Orde^ 

 Triandria, and this alteration is the more 

 fortunate, as one of its species isdiandrous. 

 Stercu/ia is best removed to the 11th Class, 

 next to Kleinhovia. 



9. Polyadelphia. If the system should be 

 preserved in its present state, without re- 

 gard to agreement or difference in the ac- 

 cessory parts of the barren and fertile 

 flowers, I conceive this Order might be 

 established for the reception of the Gourd 

 tribe, as already hinted under the 5th Or- 

 der. Their filaments are united, in 3 sets, 

 a character much more intelligible and 

 constant than the casual and irregular con- 

 nection of their anthers, which led Linnaeus 

 to reckon them syngenesious; for they 

 only afford an additional proof that union 

 of anthers is, in simple flowers, neither a 

 good natural nor artificial guide. If the 

 monoecious and dioecious Classes be re- 

 formed according to the plan to which I 

 have so often adverted, these plants should 

 go to the Class Vohjaddphia* 



