ANDRCBC1UM, OR STAMENS. 



249 



Infundibuliform, or Funnelform, such as the corolla of common 

 Morning-Glory (Fig. 482) , denotes a tube gradual!}' enlarging 

 upward from a narrow base into an expanding border or limb. 



Campanulate, or Bell-shaped (Fig. 477), denotes a tube of length 

 not more than twice the breadth, moderately expanded almost 

 from the base, the sides above little divergent. 



SECTION VI. THE ANDROECIUM, OR STAMENS IN PARTICULAR. 



453. The whole Stamen. For the general character and some 

 of the modifications of the stamens, see the first (301) and por- 

 tions of the succeeding sections of the present chapter. The 

 terms peculiar to these organs, and of common use in botanical 

 description, were nearly all coined by Linnaeus', and employed as 

 the names of classes in his sexual system. (672.) The sub- 

 stantive names of those classes which are characterized by the 

 number of stamens, and which were designated by Greek nume- 

 rals prefixed to andria (the Greek word for man being used 

 metaphorically for stamen), are put into adjective form, as 

 follows : 



Monandrous. for a flower with a solitary stamen ; Diandrous, 

 for a flower with two stamens ; Triandrous, with three ; Tetran- 

 drous, with four ; Pentandrous, with five ; Hexandrous, with six ; 

 Ileptandrous, with seven ; Octandrous, with eight ; Enneandrous, 

 with nine ; Decandrous, with ten ; Dodecandrous, with twelve ; 



483 484 485 



Polyandrous, with a greater or indefinite number, or Tcosnndrous 

 (meaning twenty-stamened) when a polyandrous flower has the 

 stamens inserted on the calyx, as in the Cherry (Fig. 337), 

 Pear, &c. 



FIG. 483. Biadelplious stamens (9 and 1) of a Pea. 484. Monadelphous stamens of 

 a Lupine. 485. Monadelphous stnmens. &c., of Mallow. 



FIG. 486. Five syngenesious stamens of a Composita. 47. The same, laid open. 



