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the singialar Cape plant Aphijteia, consisting of a 

 large flower and succulent fruit, springing irnme- 

 diatety from the root, without stem or leaves. On 

 this plant Linnasus published a dissertation in 1775. 

 Tamarindiis has lately been removed hither from 

 the third Class, perhaps justly. 



2. Pentandria. Er odium, Engl. Bot. t. 902, sepa- 

 rated, with great propriety, from Geranium by 

 L'Heritier; Hermannia, a pretty Cape genus, Curt. 

 Mag, t. 307; and a few other plants, more or less 

 akin to the Mallow tribe, compose this Order ; to 

 which also strictly belong some species of Linum, 

 Geranium, &c. Fassiflora, removed from Gynan- 

 dria, belongs most unquestionably to Pentandria 

 Trigynia, and by no means to this Class. 



3. Heptandria consists only of Pelargonium of L'He- 

 ritier, an excellent genus, comprising most of the 

 Cape Geraniums, and marked by its irregular flower, 

 seven stamens, and tubular nectary. 



4. Octandria contains Aitonia, Curt. Mag. t. 173, 

 named in honour of the excellent and universally 

 respected autlior of the Hortus Kezvensis. Pisiia 

 is, I believe justly, placed here by Schreber and 

 Willdenow. 



5. Decandria. Geranium, properly so called, EngL 

 Bot. ^.404, 405, 272, &c., is the principal genus 

 here. The late Professor Cavanilles, however, in 

 his Dissertationes Botanic(je, referred to this Order 



