GENERA OF CLASS VIII. OCTANDRIA. 77 



CHAP. XL 



OF THE EIGHTH CLASS, OCTANDRIA, 



THIS class consists of such plants as bear bisexual flowers, 

 furnished with eight stamina. The orders are four, viz. 



Order 1. Monogynia, comprehending such plants as have but 

 one style. Of this order there are fifty -three genera, arranging 

 under two heads ; 1. Flowers complete, which contains forty-two 

 genera, viz. Mimusops... Cupania... Dimocarpus...Trop;£ohjivi 

 ( Indian cress). ..B;eckia...Ephielis...Molin;ea...Honckenya... 

 Hagenia...Memecylon...Combretum...Roxburghia..,Epilobi- 

 um (tui//ou;-/ier^...G aura... Oenothera ( tree primrose ) . . . Vitman- 

 nia,..Rhexia...Osbeckia...Tetratheca...Grislea...Koelreute- 

 ria. . .Persoon ia. . .G u area. . .Corre a. . . Antichorus. . . Allophylus 

 ...Ornithrophe...Jambolifera...Xylocarpus...Zimenia...Law- 



sonia...Melicocca...Amyris... Melicope...Gnidia... Fuchsia... 



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Hedwigia ... Michauxia.. Chlora (yellow centaury) ...Vaccini- 

 um (bilberry, whortleberry, craw^7Ty^)...MENZiEsiA...ERiCA (heath). 

 2. Flowers incomplete, which contains eleven genera, as, Ophira... 

 Grubbia... Buginvilijea... Lachn^ea... Dirca... Daphne (meze- 

 reon, spurge-laurel, tyc.) ...Passerina... Stellera... Dodon^ea... 

 Valentinia...Cedrota. 



Order 2. Digynia, comprehending such plants as have twcr 

 styles. This order contains five genera, viz. Galenia...Wein- 



MANNIA... McEHRINGIA...ScHMEIDELIA...and CoDIA. 



Order 3. Trigynia, comprehending such plants as have three 

 styles. This order contains seven genera* viz. Polygonum,,. 



