MONADELPHIA. 439 



JTortus Kt'xcensh. Fistia is, I btTK-vr justly, 

 placed here by Schreber luul Willdciiow. 



5. Dccandria. G t'/v/ ///*/////, proprcly socallrd, 

 Engl. But, t. 404, 405, 272, eS:c., i^ the 

 principal genus here. The late Professor 

 Cavanilles, however, in his Disstrtationts 

 Bota/iic(e, referred to this Order a vast 

 number of genera, never before suspected 

 lo belong to il, as Banimteria, Malpighiaj 

 Turned, Mclia, kc, on account of some 

 fancied union of their filaments, perhaps 

 throuiih the medium of a tubular nectary ; 

 which principle, is absolutely inadmissible ; 

 for \ve might just as well refer to Alona- 

 ddphia every plant whose filaments are 

 connected by insertion into a tubular co- 

 rolla. Some species of Oralis, see p. 424, 

 belong to this Order; as do several pa- 

 pilionaceous genera, of which we shall 

 speak under the next Class. 



6. Bndccandria contains only the splendid 

 South-American genus Bro:.-nca, the num- 

 ber of whose stamens is dilTerent in difler- 

 ent species. 



7. DodecaiuJria, Stamens mostly 1 5, is com- 



