352 GYNANDRIA. 



3. Triandria. Solatia > if Linnagus's description be 

 right, is properly placed here ; but Jussieu doubts 

 it, nor does my dried specimen serve to remove the 

 uncertainty. Stilago proves to be merely the bar- 

 ren plant of Antidesma alexiteria, and belongs to 

 Dioecia ; as Sisyrinchium and Ferraria do to 

 Afonddetphidy the tubular united stamens of the two 

 last having been mistaken for a solid style. Rho- 

 pium of Schreber (Meborea of Sublet, t. 323,) seems 

 therefore the only certain genus of the Order under 

 consideration ; unless Lamarck be right in referring 

 to it Jacquin's Strumpjia, upon which I have not 

 materials to form any opinion. The original dis- 

 coverer attributes to this plant five stamens with 

 united anthers ; hence it found a place in the Syn- 

 genesia Monogamia of Linnaeus. Lamarck merits 

 attention, as he appears to have had an authentic 

 specimen. See his t. 731. 



4. Tetrandria. Nepenthes, of whose extraordinary 

 kind of leaf mention is made p. 150,, is the only 

 genus of this Order in Linnaeus, but very erroneously 

 placed here, for it belongs to Dioecia Monaddphia. 

 The Order however must be retained for the sake 

 of Stylidium, a New Holland genus, related, as 

 above mentioned, to Forstera. This is my Vente- 

 natia, Exot. Bot. t. 66, 67 ; but another genus 

 having previously, without my knowledge,, received 

 the latter denomination, that of Stylidium, under 



