334 MONADELPHIA. 



a vast number of genera, never before suspected to 

 belong to it, as Bmunsteria^ Malpighia, Turrcea, 

 Alelia, &c., on accoant of some fancied union of 

 their filaments, perhaps through the medium of a 

 tubular nectary; which principle is absolutely inad- 

 missible ; for we might just as well refer to Mona- 

 delphia every plant whose filaments are connected 

 by insertion into a tubular corolla. Some species of 

 Oi'alis, see /;. ^9.S, belong to this Order ; as do 

 several papilionaceous genera, of which we shall 

 speak under the next Class. 



6. Endecandria contains only the splendid South- 

 American genus B7'ow?iea, the number of whose 

 stamens is different in different species. 



7. Dodeca?idria,SiSimensmosi]y fifteen, \s composed 

 of some fine plants allied to the Mallows, as Ptero- 

 spermum. Curt. Mag. t. 620, Pentapetes, &c. 



8. Polyandria, a very numerous and magnificent 

 Order, comprises, among other things, the true 

 ColiiinnifercB or Malvacece, as Malva, E)igJ.. Bot, 

 t.67\, 754, Althcea^t. 147, Hibiscus, Spicil. Bot. 

 t. 8, Gossypium the Cotton- tree, Alcea the Holly- 

 hock, &c. Stately and beautiful plants of this 

 Order, though not Malvacece, are Carolinea, whose 

 angular seeds are sold in our shops by the name of 

 Brasil nuts; Gustavia, named after the late King of 

 Sweden, a great patron of botany and of Linnaeus ; 

 Camellia, Curt. Mag. t. 42, whose splendid varie- 



