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ference in the accessory parts of the barren and fer- 

 tile flowers, I conceive this order might be established 

 for the reception of the Gourd tribe, as already hinted 

 under the 5th Order. Their filaments are united, in 

 3 sets, a character much mere intelligible and con- 

 stant than the casual and irregular connexion of their 

 anthers, which led Linnaius to reckon them syngen- 

 csious ; 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 reformed according to the plan 

 to which I have so often adverted, these plants should 

 go to the Class Polyadelphia, 



10. Gynandria is scarcely tenable, being paradoxical in 

 its character, and the two Linnxan genera which 

 compose it, Andrachne and Agyneia, seem most 

 properly, even as the system stands at present, to be- 

 long to the 8th Order, to great part of which they 

 are, moreover, naturally related. 



Class 22. Dioecia. Stamens and Pistils in separate 

 flowers, situated on two separate plants. Orders 8. 



The foregoing remarks on the Orders of Monoecia 

 apply also to those of this Class. I shall therefore 

 only briefly mention some genera properly illustrative 

 of each Order, more particularly specifying such as 

 require to be placed elsewhere. 



1, Monandria. Brosimwn of Swartz, and Ascarina of 

 Forster, seem, by their descriptions, to be well placed 

 here. Pandanus {Athrodactylis of Forster) is more 



