SS AN INTRODUCTION 



ORDER I. PENTANDRIA, comprehending such 

 plants as have Jive stamina in each set. Of this or- 

 der are two genera, viz. Theobroma and Abroma. 



ORDER II. DODECANDRIA, comprehending such 

 plants as have twelve stamina in each set. Of this 

 order there is one genus, viz. Monsonia. 



ORDEH III. ICOSANDRIA, comprehending such 

 plants as have twenty stamina in each set. Of this 

 order there is but one genus, viz Citru?. 



ORDER IV. POLYAND'RIA, comprehending such 

 plants as have many stamina in each set. This or- 

 der contains eight genera, viz. Melaleuca, Hopea, 

 Durio, Glabraria, Munchausia, Symplocus, Hyperi- 

 cum and Ascyrum. 



CHAP. XXII. 



OF THE NINETEENTH CLASS SYNGENESIA. . * 







THIS Class consists of such plants as have compound 

 flowers. We have already paved the way for un- 

 derstanding this class, by the account given of com- 

 pound flowers in Part I. Chap. 19. and the explana- 

 tion of the titles of the class and its orders in Chap. 

 2. and 3. What is farther necessary here, is to give 

 the character of the flowers. Compound flowers ad- 

 mit of a double description, viz. 1. Of the whole 

 flower in its aggregate state, which is termed the 

 flosculose flower : and 2. Of iheJloscuK,, florets, of 



* This class of compound flowers is a natural one, if we 

 except the last order, which, upon the systematic principles 

 assumed, could not be refused an admittance into it. Its 

 plants are commonly bitter and stomachic. 



