334 MONADELPHIA. 



a vast number of genera, never before suspected to 

 belong to it, as Bnnriistena, Malpighia, Turraa, 

 Md'iOj &c., on account of some fancied union of 

 their filaments, perhaps through the medium of a 

 tubular nectary; which principle is absolutely inad- 

 missible ; for we might just as well refer to Mona- 

 ddphia every plant whose filaments are connected 

 by insertion into a tubular corolla. Some species of 

 Oxalis, see p. 323, belong to this Order ; as do 

 several papilionaceous genera, of which we shall 

 speak under the next Class. 



6. Endecandria contains only the splendid South- 

 American genus Brownea, the number of whose 

 stamens is different in different species. 



7. Dodecandria, Stamens mostly fifteen, is composed 

 of some fine plants allied to the Mallows, as Ptero- 

 spermum, Curt. Mag. t. 620, Pentapetes, &c. 



8. PolyanHria, a very numerous and magnificent 

 Order, comprises, among other things, the true 

 Columnifera or Malvaceae, as Malva, Engl. Bot. 

 t. 671, 754, Altha?a,t. 147, Hibiscus, Spicil. Bot. 

 t. 8, Gossypium the Cotton-tree, Alcea the Holly- 

 hock, c. Stately and beautiful plants of this 

 Order, though not Malvaceae, are Carolinea, whose 

 angular seeds are sold in our shops by the name of 

 Brasil nuts; Gusttivia, named after the late King of 

 Sweden, a great patron of botany and of Linnaeus; 

 Camellia, Curt. Mag. t. 42, whose splendid vane- 



