462 GYNANDRIA. 



be expected in the family under considera* 

 tion. Vahl appears by the preface to his 

 Uniimeratlo Plant arum to have removed 

 the, Sciiaminece to Gi/nnndria, because the 

 stamen of Carina adheres to the style. 

 This, if constant, could only concern that 

 genus, for the rest of the Order are in no 

 sense gynandrous. 



2. Diandria. To this Order Cypr'ipedium^ 

 Engl. Bot. t. 1, must be referred, having 

 a pair of very distinct double-celled anthers. 

 See Tr. of Linn. Soc. v. I. f. 2, 3. Here 

 we find Forstera, so well illustrated by 

 Professor Swartz in Sims and Konig s An- 

 nals of Botany, v. 1. '291, t. 6; of which 

 genus Bhyllachne, t. 5 of the same volume, 

 is justly there reckoned a species. Of the 

 same natural order with For at era is Styll- 

 dium, but that having, I think, 4 anthers, 

 belongs to the fourth Order of the present 

 Class. Gunner a, placed by Linnaeus in 

 Gynandria Diandria^ is not yet sufficiently 

 well understood. 



3. Triandria. Salacia, if Linnoeus's descrip- 



