450 SYNGENESIA, 



filaments inserted (In several parcels) into 

 the calyx. — To this Order Professor Will- 

 denow properly refers Melaleuca, Eaot. 

 Bot. t. 34 — 36, 55, 56, which had previ- 

 ously stood in Poh/andria, botanists hav- 

 ing only considered 7iumber and not in- 

 sertion in the Orders of Folyadelpkia, 

 whence a double mistake has arisen, con- 

 cerning Citrus on the one hand, and Me- 

 laleuca on the other. 



3. Tolyandria. Stamens very numerous, un- 

 connected with the calyx. This Order 

 consists of several genera. The most re- 

 markable is Hypericum, Engl. Bot. t. 109, 

 12^25 — 1227, Sec, whose stamensare united 

 into 3 or o parcels, corresponding with the 

 number of its styles. Munchhausia is a 

 Logerstromia, nor does it appear to be 

 polyadelphous at all. Linnseus seems to 

 have intended bringing Thea into this 

 Order. 



Class 19- Syngenesia. Anthers united into 

 a tube. Flowers compound. Orders 5. 



This being truly a natural Class, its Or- 

 ders are most of them equally so, though 



