GENERA OF CLASS X. DECANDRIA. 19 



CHAP. XIII. ' 



OF THE TENTH CLASS, DECANDRIA. 



THIS class consists of such plants as bear bisexual flowers, 

 furnished with ten stamina. The orders are five, containing one 

 hundred and twenty genera, viz. 



Order 1. Monogynia, comprehends such plants as have one style. 

 This order contains fifty -six genera, distinguished into, 1. Such 

 as have flowers polypetalous, irregular, of which there are nine- 

 teen genera, viz. Sophora ... Anagyris ... Cercis (Judas 3 tree) 

 ...Bauhinia (mountain ebony).., Parkinsonia... Cassia... Cjesal- 

 pinia...Basiletto... Guilandina (bonduc or neckar tree) ... Dic- 

 tamnus (fraxinella) ...Podalyria... Pultentea... Hymen^ea (lo- 

 cws^-zree^) ...Myroxylon...Toluifera...CubjEa... Hyperanthera... 

 G^rtnera...Gomphia...Rhodora. 2. Flowers polypetalous, equal, 

 of which there are thirty-eight genera, viz. Ruta (rue) ...H^ma- 

 toxylon (log-wood) ... Adenanthera...Melia (bread-tree). ..Tri- 

 chili a . . ,Z ygoph yllu m ( bean-caper ) . . .Quassia . . .Fagoni a.. .Tri- 

 bulus (V«/*/^sJ...Thryallis...Murraya...Monotropa (yellow 

 bird's-7w$t)...JussiEVA... Limonia... Melastoma... Ledum... Quis- 

 qualis...Bergera...Bucida...Clethra...Pyrola (winter-green).., 

 Prosopis... Heisteria...Turr2ea ... Dion&a (Venus 's fly-trap) ... 

 Ekeeergia...Cynometra...Schotia...Cadia...Gilibertia...San- 

 doricum ...Sweitenia ( mahogany ) . . ,Gu ai acu m (lignum-vitce) 

 Zwingera...Ceratopet alum.. .Sckousboza... Pet aloma...Cookia 

 ...Meriania. 3. Flowers monopetalous, equal, containing twelve 

 genera, viz. Panzera... Nicandra...Codon...Inocarpus...Stri- 

 cilia.. .Andromeda. ..Rhododendron. ,.Kalmia«,.Epig£a, Gu- 

 altbrla... Arbutus.,. and Styrax, 



