35^ GYNANDRIA. 



3. Triandria. Salaciay if Linnagus's description be 

 right, is properly placed here ; but Jussieu doubts 

 it, nor does my dried specimen serve to remove the 

 uncertainty. Stilago proves to be merely the bar- 

 ren plant of Antidesma ale.viteria, and belongs to 

 Dioecia ; as Sisi/rinchium and Ferrari a do to 

 Monadelphia, the tubular united stamens of the two 

 last having been mistaken for a solid style. Rho- 

 piuni of Schreber (^Meboixa oiAiiblet, t, 323,) seems 

 therefore 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 dis- 

 coverer attributes co this plant five stamens with 

 united anthers ; hence it found a place in the Syn- 

 genesia Monogamia of Linnasus. Lamarck merits 

 attention, as he appears to have had an authentic 

 specimen. See his ^.731. 



4. Tetrandria, Nepenthes, of whose extraordinary 

 kind of leaf mention is made p. 150^ is the only 

 genus of this Order in Linnaeus, but very erroneously 

 placed here, for it belongs to Dioecia Monadelphia. 

 The Order however must be retained for the sake 

 of Stylidiwn, a New Holland genus, related, as 

 above mentioned, to Forstera. This is my Vente- 

 natia, E.vot. Bot. t. 66, 67 ; but another genus 

 having previously, without my knowledge, received 

 the latter denomination, that of StijUdium, under 



