356 &YNANDRIA. 



merits attention, as he appears to have had an authen- 

 tic specimen. See his t. 731. 



4, Tetrandria. Nepenthes^ of whose extraordinary 

 kind of leaf mention is made/?. 162, is the only genus 

 of this Order in Linnseus, but very erroneously plac- 

 ed here, for it belon gs to Dioecia Monadelphia. The 

 Order hovvever must be retained for the sake of StylU 

 dium^ a New Holland genus, related, as above men- 

 tioned, to Forstera. This is ni) Ventenatia, Exot. 

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

 without my knowledge, received the latter denomina- 

 tion, that oi Stylidium, under which I had, some time 

 ago, communicated this genus to the French botan- 

 ists*, and which they have adopted, becomes estab- 

 lished. See La Billardiere's excellent work on New 

 Holland plants, where several species of it are figured. 



5, Pentandria. The original genera of this Order, 

 Ayenia, Gluta^ and Passijlora, Exot. Bot. t. 28, most 

 unquestionably have nothing to do with it, their sta- 

 mens beine inserted below the cjcrmen, merely on a 

 columnar receptacle. The learned Schreber there- 

 fore removed them to the 5th Class. 



But this Older may receive a reinforcement from, 

 the Linnaean Pentandria Digynia, Several of the 



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

 to his description, of the 7th Class ; Fl. Cochinch. i). 1. 221 ; but 

 this can scarcely interfere with ours, bcine probably, as it grows 

 about Canton, some well-known shrub that happened to have a 

 7-clefi flower. It should seem to belong to the Rubiacece, not- 

 v/ithstanding some points in the description. 



