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mina. Of this Order there is only one 
Genus, viz. *Brownea. 
Oaver VII. DODECANDRLA, com- 
prehending fuch Plants as have ¢we/ve Sta- 
mina. ‘This Order contains only one Ge- 
nus, viz. Penfapetes. 
OrveER VIL. POLYANDRIA, com- 
prehending fuch Plants as, have many Sta- 
mina. ‘This Crder contains twenty-one 
_ Genera, viz. Bombax, Sida, Adunfonia Al- 
thea, Alcea, Malva, Lavatera, Malope, 
Urena, Gofypium, Hibifcus, Stewartia, Ca- 
mellia, Morifonia, Mefua, Malachra, Gordonia, 
Guftavia, Carolinea, Barringtonia, and Sol- , 
andra. 
CHAP. XX. 
Of the feventeenth Glafs, DIADELPHIA *, 
HIS Clafs confifts of fuch Plants as 
h bear Hermaphrodite Flowers, furnifh- 
* The Plants of the Clafs, Diadelphia, are the Papilic- 
naccous, Butter fly-/haped Plants, of Tournefort ; irregular te= 
trapetalous of Rivinus; and leguminous of Ray's Hitt. 
Pant. 883. Of all the Claffes, this is the moft natural, 
and has its Flowers of the moft fingular Stru@ture. The 
Calyx, though hitherto little attended to, is of great 
Moment for fixing the Genera. TheLegumen was held 
of confeauence by other Syftematifls ; but by Linnaeus it 
is made of leis Account. The Leaves of thefe Plants are 
Food for Cattle, and the Seeds alfo for Quadrupeds of 
the fame Kind; the latter are accounted flatulent. 
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