Order I. 
OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
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5539 The only species. Flowers appearing before the leaves 
5540 Leaves scattered 3-cornered, Flowers in umbellate heads. Scales four bearded 
5541 Leaves scattered 3-quetrous linear acute : floral lin. lane, shorter than heads, Scales eight beardless 
5542 Leaves all linear acute. Flowers terminal sessile, Scales four and cor. smooth 
5543 Leaves scattered lane, smooth. Flowers capitate surrounded by bractes. Peduncle naked 
5544 Leaves opp. lanceolate tomentose. Flowers terminal. Scales 4 
5545 Leaves opp. ovate tomentose. Flowers terminal. Scales 8 
5546 Leaves ovate oblong imbricated hairy with naked nerves 
5547 Leaves opp. ovate smooth, Fl. terminal subcapitate 
5548 Leaves linear. Flowers axillary sessile 4-cleft 
5549 Leaves lin. convex imbricated in 4 rows. Branches downy 
5550 Leaves fleshy smooth outside, Stems downy 
5551 Leaves linear smooth, Fl. sessile in terminal filiform silky heads 
5552 Leaves linear smooth, Heads stalked downy 
5553 Leaves lin. opposite. Flowers term, solitary. Branches smooth 
5554 Quite smooth. Leaves oblong acute concave rugose outside, Fl. term, sessile solitary 
5555 Leaves ovate villous, Flowers lateral solitary 
5556 Leaves ovate scattered. Flowers capitate, Branches lax cernuous 
5557 Heads clustered, Leaves loose 
5558 Heads solitary woolly, Flowers imbricated in four rows 
5559 Leaves opp. imbricated 4 ways, Heads smooth 
5560 Leaves scattered elliptical ovate, Heads woolly 
5561 Leaves oval sessile very smooth, Fl. capitate woolly 
5562 Leaves opposite ovate acute. Racemes one-sided bracteate, Bractes shorter than peduncle, Fl. decandrous 
5563 Leaves opp. oblong hairy. Racemes numerous terminal one-sided 
DIGYNIA. 
5564 Erect shrubby, Leaves linear fleshy 
5565 Flowers loosely spiked very minute, Bractes lanceolate membranous 
5566 Leaves pinnate. Leaflets obovate crenate smooth 
5567 Leaves linear connate. Sepals flat the length of the stem-joints lanceol. acute 
and Miscellaneous Particulars. 
913. Stellera. So named by Gmelin, in memory of Georg. Wilh. Steller, adjunct of the academy at 
Petersburg, who collected plants in Kamtschatka, and died in Siberia, in 1746. An inconspicuous plant 
resembling the next genus and requiring the same culture. 
914. Passerina. From passer, a sparrow. Its seed has an appendage at the end like the beak of a sparrow. 
Young cuttings root freely under a bell-glass in sand. 
915. Lachncea. Derived from Xaxvrt, wool, on account of the woolly heads of flowers. 
916. Combretum. A naitiC employed by Pliny. The plant of the ancients could have no relation to the 
plant now called by this name, which is a genus of splendid climbing shrubs, with beautiful branches of 
flowers which are often crimson or purple, and sometimes white. A number of species are found at Sierra 
Leone. They are all stove plants. 
917. Galenia. So named by Linnaeus from the famous physician Claudius Galenus, born at Pergamus, 
133 years before the Christian aera. A coarse-looking shrub, with the leaves obscurely papillose or bladdery, 
and the stem round. 
918. Apkananthe. A name contrived from «, privative, <f>oe.ivoo, to be remarkable, and atvB-os, a flower : 
that is to say, a plant which is not remarkable for the beauty of its flowers. A curious little Brazilian weed. 
919. WeinTnannia. In honor of John William Weinmann, a German botanist, who published in 4 vols, 
folio, his Phytanthoza Iconographica, about the middle of the last century. Handsome shrubs, with pinnated 
leaves. 
920. Moehringia. So named by Linnasus, from Paul Henry Gerard Moehring, a physician, author of Hortus 
Proprius, 1736. A little inconspicuous weed-like plant. It suits very well for rock-work, or to be grown in 
small pots. 
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