DIOECIA POLYANDRIA. LXXX1X 



Stigmas radiately 5-lobed. Stamens 2, or 3, in the perfect flower 

 (10 in the sterile). Fruit samara-like, oblong, tumid in the centre. 

 ORD. XXVI. XANTHOXYLACEAE. p. 42. 



[Gymnocladus. OED. XXXIV. LEGUMINOSAE. p. 69.] 



Order 1O. Polyandria. 



MENISPERMUM. Sepals and petals arranged in fours, in 2 or 3 

 (series. STAM. FL. Anthers 4-celled. PISTILL. FL. Ovaries 2 to 4, 

 superior, subpedicellate. Drupes roundish -reniform; nut lunate. 

 ORD. IV. MENISPERMACEAE. p. 10. 



SAHSBURIA. STAM. FL. in axillary filiform pedunculate aments. 

 FERTILE FL. terminal, solitary, or fasciculate, each consisting of a 

 naked ovule seated in a cupshaped disk, in the thickened apex of the 

 peduncle. Seed nut-like, its base embraced by the fleshy disk. 

 ORD. XCVIII. CONIFERAE. p. 296. 



[Clematis, and Thalictrum. ORD. I. RANUNCULACEAE. p. 2 & 3.] 



[Diospyros. ORD. LVI. EBENACEAE. p. 176.J 



[Arum. ORD. XCIX. ARACEAE. p. 297.] 



Order 11. Monadelpliia. 



TAXUS. STAM. FL. in axillary globose aments, exserted from the 

 scaly buds. FERTILE FL. scaly-bracteate at base, each consisting 

 of a naked ovule seated in a cupshaped disk, which finally becomes 

 pulpy, and incloses the lower half of the nut-like seed. ORD. 

 XCVIII. CONIFERAE. p. 295. 



JUNIPERUS. STAMINATE AMENTS axillary, or sub terminal, ovoid, 

 small. Filaments bearing an excentrically peltate connective, to 

 the lower edge of which the anther-cells are attached. FERTILE AMEXTS 

 axillary, globose, consisting of 3 to 6 fleshy, 1- to 3-ovuled, coales- 

 cent scales. Fruit drupe-like, small, tuberculate, umbilicate at apex, 

 scaly-bracteate at base. ORD. XCVIII. CONIFERAE. p. 295. 



CL.ASS XXI. CRYPTOGAMIA. 



-3~The Genera of this Class are all arranged in the Series of FLOWERLESS 

 PLANTS ; and will be found distributed in the natural orders to which they sever- 

 ally belong. 



