34» DIABELPHIA, 



sr/pium, the cotton-tree, .^Icea the Hollyhock, Sec. 

 Stately and beautiful plants of this Order, though not 

 Malvace^j are Carolinea, whose angular seeds are 

 sold in our shops by the name of Brasil nuts ; Gusta- 

 via, named after the late King of Sweden, a great pat- 

 ron of botany and of Linnaeus ; Camellia, Curt. Mag, 

 t. 42, whose splendid varieties have of late become 

 favourites with collectors ; Stuartia, Exot. Bot. t, 

 110 ; and Barringtonia, the original Com7nersonia^ 

 Sonnerat Voy. a la A'owv. Guineej t. 8, 9. 



Class 17. Diadelphia. Stamens united by their fila- 

 ments into 2 parcels, both sometimes cohering at the 

 base. Orders 4, distinguished by the number of 

 their Siamens. — Flowers almost universally papiliona- 

 ceous. 



1. Pmfandria. The only genus in this Order is Mon- 

 mena, Lamarck, t. 596, a rare little South American 

 plant, whose natural order is uncertain. It has a rin- 

 gent corolla, ternate leaves, a simple bristly pubes- 

 cence, and is besprinkled with resinous dots. 



2. Hexandria. Saraca, in this Order, is as little 

 known as the Monnieria, except that it undoubtedly 

 belongs to the leguminous family. It seems most alli- 

 ed to Brownea, Jonesia, Afzelia, &c. Fumaria, the 

 only genus besides, is remarkable for the great varie- 

 ty of forms in its seed-vessel, whence botanists who 

 make genera from technical characters, without regard 

 to natural principles, have injudiciously subdivided it. 

 See EngLBoU U 588—590, 943, 1471* 



