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NATURAL ARRANGEMENT. 



74. Tribe 1. Sile\\e;e. 

 lig. 1. herb. 315. f 1 ft. ; £34|ft. 



1384 GysophilaZ. 0 28 



1386 DianthusZ. 0 *93 



1385 Saponaria L. *11 



1387 Cucabalus L. 0 *1 



1388 Silene L. 0 *153 

 1415 .Lychnis L. 0 *28 



802 Velez ? a W. 0 1 



901 Drypis L. 10 



75. Tribe 2. Alsi'ne.e. 

 lig. 0. Aerd. 177. £ 16 ft. ^Uft. 



114 OrtegzaL. 0 2 



406 Buffbma W. 0 *2 



416 Sag-inaZ,. 0 *6 



12u8 Moehring?a L. 0 2 



1223 Ratine L. 0 *2 



1419 B£rgi« L. 0 1 



295 MollCigo L. 0 1 



S06 Phamaceww W. 0 1 



290 Holosteum L. 



0 



*2 



1418 Spergula L. 



0 



*9 



1417 Larbrea Hil. 



0 



*1 



903 Drymaria W. 







1389 Stellaria L. 



0 



*21 



902 yllsine L. 



0 



*3 



1390 Arenariai. 





*7l 



1416 CerastiumZ. 



0 



*49 



1391 Cherlena Hal. 



0 



*1 



1402 Spergulastrum Mx. 



0 





76. Order XXVII. LI'NEiE. 



Genera 2, Species 43 ; Hot -house Species 0 ; Green-house Species 6 ; Hardy Ligneous Species 2 ; 

 Hardy Herbaceous Species 35. £ 3 feet ; £ 12 feet ; ± 0 feet. 



Separated by M. Decandolle from Caryophyllea?, from which it is well distinguished by its fruit having 

 several cells, or in the language of the botanist just named, being formed by the cohesion of several carpella. 

 Most of the species are pretty plants, bearing yellow, blue, or white flowers. They are of immense import- 

 ance in the world, on account of the tenacity of their fibres when made into flax. The seeds of common flax 

 are between mucilaginous and oily ; the leaves of Zlnum catharticum and L. selaginoides, the latter a native 

 of Peru, are purgative. Cuttings, division, or seeds. 



921 Zlnum Bauh. *2 34 | 419 Radiola Dil. 0 *1 



77. Order XXVIII. MALVA^CEiE. 



Genera 22, Species 391 ; Hot-house Species 203 ; Green-house Species 97 ; Hardy Ligneous Species 8 ; 

 Hardy Herbaceous Species 83. f 28| feet ; j£ 25 feet ; =*= 0 feet. 



Before this order was dismembered of Bombaceae and Byttneriaceas, it contained most of the grandest flowers 

 in nature. Even now, the splendor of the various species of Malva, /Hthae^a, to which the hollyhock belongs, 

 and Hibiscus, renders it one of the most remarkable groups of plants. With the exception of the numerous 



fenus Sida, nearly all Malv&cese are objects worthy of the gardener's care, particularly those which are hardy, 

 n stoves or green-houses, the softness of their branches and leaves renders them peculiarly liable to the attacks 

 of the red spider, mealy bug, and scale, from which few collections are free; a circumstance which makes 

 them less generally esteemed than the surpassing beauty of many of them merits. The greater part of the 

 order is clothed with stellate pubescence, and a reniform one-celled anther is a character common to the whole. 

 These two peculiarities, together with the alternate stipulate leaves, distinguish Malvaceze from all the rest of 

 Dichlamydea?. All the species abound in a nutritive mucilage; a quality which renders the young heads of 

 the Ochro, or Hibiscus esculentus, an object of great value within the tropics, as an ingredient in soups. In 

 Brazil, the Abhtilon esculentum serves the same purposes. The emollient properties of Jltha^a officinalis, 

 or Guimauve of the French, are well known to physicians, as a remedy for catarrhs and pulmonary complaints. 

 A decoction of the leaves of Sphasralcea cisplattna is used for similar objects in Brazil. A species of PavbmYi 

 is employed in the same country as a diuretic in the form of a decoction. The straight shoots of Sida 

 micrantha are employed as rocket sticks at Rio Janeiro. The chewed leaves of Slda carpinifblia allay the 

 inflammation occasioned by the stings of wasps. The tough fibres of many Malvaceae are manufactured 

 into cordage. Their petals are astringent; whence those of Hibiscus rbsa sinensis are used in China to 

 blacken the eyelashes and the leather of shoes. The fibrous threads in which the seeds of Gossj'pium are 

 enveloped furnish the valuable cotton, an article of immense importance to the world ; these threads, when 

 examined by the microscope, will be seen to be finely toothed, which explains the cause of their adhering 

 together with greater facility than those of Bombax and several Apoc^nese, which are destitute of teeth, and 

 which cannot be spun into thread without an admixture of cotton. Division, cuttings, or seeds. 



78. Division 1. Calyx double. 



2003 ilfalope L. 



0 



1 



2004 Malva L. 



0 



*38 



2005 Nuttalha Dick. 



0 



2 



2006 Kitaibeli'a W. 



0 



1 



2007 ^lthai'a L. 



0 



*16 



2008 Lavatera L. 



0 



*12 



2009 3/alachra L. 







2010 Urena L. 



2011 Pavbnm Cav. 



2012 Malvaviscus Dil. 



2013 Lebretbma Schrank 



2014 Hibiscus L. 8 7 



2015 Thespesia Corr. 



2016 Gossypium L. 



2017 Redouts Ven. 



2018 Lopimia Mart. 



79. Division 2. Calyx simple. 



2019 Palavfa Cav. 0 2 



2020 Cristaria Cav. 0 1 



2021 A'noda Cav. 



2022 Periptera Dec. 



2023 Slda L. 0 3 



2024 Lagunea Cav. 



80. Order XXIX. BOMBA^CE^. 



Genera II, Species 28 ; Hot-house Species 27 ; Green-house Species 1 ; Hardy Ligneous Species 0 i 

 Hardy Herbaceous Species 0. { 0 feet ; j£ 0 feet ; =4= 0 feet. 

 Distinguished from the last by the imbricate a?stivation of the calyx, and the arrangement of the stamens in 

 five sets, or, in Linnean language, brotherhoods. The species are mostly fine trees with large showy flowers, 

 and natives of the tropics. Some of them are among the largest trees in the world ; Adansbm'a, the Baobab 

 of Senegal, has been seen with a diameter of twenty-five feet, and specimens of B6mbax Ceiba and Erioden- 

 dron anfractubsum are not uncommon an hundred feet in height. The wood of all the species is light and 

 soft, as in Malvaceas, from which this order probably does not differ in its medical properties. Cuttings or 

 seeds. 



1993 Helicteres L. 

 2031 Myrbdia Schreh. 

 2002 Plagianthus Forst. 

 2028 Adansbnfa L. 



1995 Monteziim« M. & S. 

 2027 CarolineaL. 

 2029 Bombax L. 

 20S0 Eriodendron Dec. 



1921 Ochrbma Swt. 



2177 Durio L. 



1934 Cheirostemon H. 8,-B. 



81. Order XXX. BYTTNERIA % CEjE. 



Genera 28, Species 151 ; Hot-house Species 78; Green-house Species 73; Hardy Ligneous Species 0; 

 Hardy Herbaceous Species 0. $0 feet ; j£ 0 feet ; ^ 0 feet. 

 Much the same kind of plants as those of the two last orders, from which they were not formerly dis- 

 tinguished ; and from which they scarcely differ, except in their bilocular anthers. Many of the Sterculias 

 are fine umbrageous trees, the seeds of which are large and eatable; especially those of the famous Kola, 

 which possess the property, being chewed, of rendering bad water pleasant to the palate. The seeds of the 

 Chicha, another and very noble species of the genus, are highly esteemed in Brazil for the dessert. Astrapa^a 

 and several other genera related to it are among the most beautiful in the world. The flowers of a species of 

 Pentapetes, called by the Indians Machucunha, give out a mucilaginous refrigerant juice, which is employed 

 in gonorrhoea. Guazuma wlmifblia has its fruit filled with a pleasant mucilage, which is sweet and very 

 agreeable ; an extract of the bark of the same plant is used in Martinique to clarify sugar ; its old bark is 

 employed, in the form of a strong decoction, as a sudorific. Walth£r?'« Douradinha contains a great deal 

 of mucilage, and is employed by the Brazilians as an antisyphilitic. Cuttings or seeds. 



