. GYN 
3- | Tetrandria. Stam 
ens four. Has only ieee 
- curious New Holland 
enus, ‘the Ventenatia of Sm. Exo 
Bot. t. 66, 67. fiyle is highly irritable, fptindting 
over from one fide of the flower to the other, on the 
flighteft touch, wad which its pollen is thrown with vio- 
lence on the ftigma 
he author of the ako article has, fuggefted, In- 
trod. to Bot. 465, that this clafs might receive a rein 
forcement from the natural order 
h they agree 
ar property = prejetlitig thee whole mafs 
of pln rom each cell of an anther, entire on any extra- 
M 
wn has e 
Afclepiadee, and has found that in them, as in the Orchi- 
dea, the pollen: i is fully formed or fecreted in the cells of 
the anthers, and, whe 
fituated on the ftyle, whofe thick, Solummar, oblique figure 
is sy pecu 
Vahl has referred ‘the whole sasteaal order of Scitam 
nea, Monandria, to which they truly and indifput. 
ably belong, to Gyna merely becaufe he faw in one 
{pecies of Canna a lateral cohefion between the flat fta- 
men and ftyle. But there is nothing of the fort in 
nuine a and it looks as if this ——— author 
was a defire to put off 
Monoecia a 
i of one er of the organs of 
— and therefore untenable as well as para- 
GYNDES, Forum-rxL.SALeu, in Geogr of 
Afia, E. of the bi esis into ore it difch edt “itlelé a 
little to the N. of A 
GYNOPLEURA, a Le Raley, fo named by Cavanilles, 
mAtvex, the fide, on account of 
= Joferton ot ake the Pons or female organs, into the fides 
not into its top. Cavan. Ic. v. 
Clie ae order, Pentandria Trigynia. Nat. Ord. Salica- 
ak Ch. Cal. Perianth inferior, tubular, of one leaf, 
fomewhat inflated, with tes upright marginal fegments, 
_permanent. Pe » equal, inferted 
into the rim of the calyx, 
alternate with its teet 
peli of ten blunt ithin 
Fit. Ccuroa. Ser aed Si 
St C 
urd 
or inferted a little below the top of the n, into 
middle of each of its valves, thread- inpet sha 
of the filaments ; ftigmas —, peltate. Peric, 
fule ovate-oblong, © one cell, burfting at the hp into 
three valves, united at their lanes part. Seeds num 
{mall, ovate, inferted ——e and uprightly into a Ii. 
wee 2 ‘receptacle along the centre of each valve 
h. Calyx pe mg fA ta Petals five, inferted 
nto ‘a rim. Styles lateral. Capfule of one cell, and three 
Seeds numerous, ranged along the middle of each 
valve. 
Obf. By Cavanilles’ own account this appears ta be 
~ fame genus, and the firft the. fame {pecies, with Ma- 
bia e the Flora Peruviana, notwithitanding the dif. 
erences he mentions in the defcription of the latter. We 
have not _ work in queftion to examine, and 
retain his genus, the name of which is certainly the molt 
= is thc two, both os ee nd and fenfe. 
ubulofa. Cavan. Ic. _— Leaves lanceolate, 
: G. 37 
cana toothed. Calyx-teeth very fhort. Petals acute, 
ich —Native dry fituations in the country at fome dif- 
tance >be Lima. Whether the /em be herbaceous be 
fhrubb we cam ce but its branches are round, full 
eaves — {cattered, two 
toothed, 
Fishes 
ribbed, WY) « 
and rather Ghee Pes 
Germen {lender and) 
— Leaves —— efe’ 
flowers and feed in March and April. 
alternately branched, hairy. Leaves alternate, feffile, lineat, 
or fomewhat lan a ob entire, wny, aus 
ricled at the bafe: er ones longer and inl fer- 
rated. Flowers scillney on terminal. Calyx funne! 
ribbed, downy, its om bluntifh and as long as 
Petals yellowith-w < 
GYNOPOGO ON, from yur, @ woman, a munya, 4 
beard, becaufe of the fuppofed bearded fligm "Fort 
Nov, Gen. 18. t. 1 Mr. Brown, +p found e che deferip- 
tion of this genus very erroneous, and its name falfe, there 
being faccely ss fpecies, out of cieeee which he has _ 
examined, that has really ab igma, a for ity 
worn oa 
10ns, fect on wikietis ee Prod. 
469.—C “= and —— Pentandria Digynia. Nat« Ord 
oval ered naked at the mouth. i 
luded eng ae few-feeded. Styles im 
rie 
serfely coherin ring. Stigma obtufe. 
them occafi 10nally abortive, ris ake 
elfe compound like a necklace, with an im 
celled coat divided. Albumen eroded, horny: 
Emb ni ight. 
Th ie righ Leaves wrote’ 
— 
affording a very — clacsbicns bet rc 
