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tion be riglit, is properly placed here ; but 

 Jussieu doubts it, nor does my dried spe- 

 cimen serve to remove the uncertainty, 

 Stilago proves to be merely the barren 

 plant of Antidesma alexiteria^ and belongs 

 to Dioecia ; as Sisi/rinchlufn and Ferrarla 

 do to Mo7iadelp/iia, the tubular united sta- 

 mens of the two last having been mistaken 

 for a solid style. R/iopium of Schreber 

 (Meborea of Aublet, t. 323,) seems there- 

 fore the only certain genus of the Order 

 under consideration ; unless Lamarck be 

 right in referring to it Jacquin^s Strumpjia, 

 upon which I have not materials to form 

 any opinion. The original discoverer at- 

 tributes to this plant 5 stamens with united 

 anthers ; hence it found a place in the 

 Syngencsia Monogamia of Linn-ccus. La- 

 marck merits attention, as he appears to 

 have had an authentic specimen. See his 

 /. 73L 



A. Tetrandria. Nepenthes, of whose extra- 

 ordinary kind of leaf mention is made 

 p. 197j is the only genus of this Order in 

 Linnaeus, but very erroneously placed here. 



