322 DECANDRIA. 



CLASS 10. Decandria. Stamens 10. Orders 5. 



1. Monogyrtia. A numerous and fine assemblage, 

 beginning with a tribe of flowers more or less cor- 

 rectly papilionaceous and leguminous, which differ 

 very materially from the rest of that natural order in 

 having ten stout, firm, separate stamens. See Cassia, 

 Curt. Mag. t. 107, 633, and Sophora, t. 167 ; also 

 Exot. Bot. t. 25 27, and Annals of Botany, v. 1. 

 501. 



The Ruta, Rue, and its allies, now become very 

 numerous, follow. See Tracts on Nat. Hist. 287. 

 Dictamnus, vulgarly called Fraxinella, is one of 

 them. Dioncea Muscipula, see p. 133, stands in 

 this artificial order, as do the beautiful Kalmia, 

 Rhododendron, Andromeda, Arbutus and Pyrola, 

 Engl. Bot.t. 213,&c. 



2. Digynia. Saxifraga, remarkable for having the 

 germen inferior, half inferior, and superior, in diffe- 

 rent species, a very rare example. See Engl. Bot. 

 t. 167/440, 663, lOOp, 500, 501. Dianthus, the 

 Pink or Carnation tribe, and some of its very distinct 

 natural order, Garyophyllca, conclude the Decan- 

 dria Digynia. 



3. Trigynia. The Caryophyllece are here continued, 

 as Cucubalus,*. 1577, Silene, t. 465, 1398, Are- 

 naria t t. 189, 512, very prolific and intricate genera 

 in the Levant. Malpighia and Bamsteria, beautiful 

 plants of the Maple family, which next occur, have 

 no affinity to the foregoing. 



