OllDEIl I. 
DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
5971 Leaves obovate serrate beneath pubescent, llaceme simple bracted 
5972 Leaves cuneate obovate acute upwards finely serrated beneath white with down 
5973 Leaves broad cuneate obovate acute coarsely serrated rough on each side 
5974 Leaves lanceolate obovate serrated smooth. Panicle narrow bracted 
5975 Leaves oval acuminate smooth on each side glaucous beneath. Racemes white with down 
5976 Leaves oblong acuminate serrated smooth. Racemes panicled, Peduncles hairy 
5977 Leaves cuneate lanceolate acute. Racemes spiked terminal 
5978 Stamens ascending. Style declinate. Raceme many-flowered 
5979 Stamens straight. Style declinate long. Peduncle twisted. Raceme many-flowered 
5980 Stamens and styles straight. Flowers racemose spreading 
5981 Raceme 1-sided 
5982 Stamens and styles straight. Flowers racemose closed. Petals rounded obtuse, Peduncle straiglit, 
5983 Peduncle 1-flowered 
5984 Peduncles 2-flowered 
5985 Peduncles umbelled 
5985 The only species 
5987 Leaves ovate beneath villous, Racemes simple shorter than the leaf 
5988 Leaves obovate villous beneath, Lower peduncles axillary solitary 1-flowered 
5989 Leaves subsessile oval or obovate beneath powdery, Fl. axill. and term, in threes on short stalks 
5990 Leaves oblong smooth on each side. Peduncles axillary 1-flowered solitary or twin 
5991 Root creeping, Stems erect with peduncles and calyxes villous. Lower leaves spatulate upper lanceol.itc 
5992 Erect villous. Flowers tetrapetalous octandrous stalked 
5993 Erect, Flowers tetrapetalous octandrous stalked. Caps, many-valved. Leaves lanceolate 
5994 Erect smooth. Flowers tetrapetalous octandrous sessile 
5995 Flowers tetrapetalous octandrous. Stem erect angul. hairy, Leaves oblong hairy 
5996 Leaves opposite ovate, Flowers panicled, Bractes lanceolate 
aromatic taste ; is stimulant, and in some degree expectorant. It was formerly much prescribed in asthma, 
catarrh, phthisis, and menstrual obstructions 3 but it is now scarcely ever employed, except as an adjunct on 
account of its fragrance. 
Benzoin is obtained from the S. Benzoin, by wounding the bark near the origin of the lower branches. The 
tree is never wounded under six years of age ; and cannot sustain these annual incisions above twelve years. 
{Thomson's London Dispensatory, 525.) 
As shrubs this genus affords some plants that may be considered pretty and desirable, on account of their 
small size and free flowering. They grow best in sandy loam, are commonly propagated by layers, and may 
dlso be increased by seeds, which they occasionally ripen. 
1026. Jiissicea. An obscure and most uninteresting genus of plants, selected, not very happily, to com- 
memorate the family of the Jussieus, which has for more than a century and a half been at the head of 
botanical science. Antoine de Jussieu, born in 1686, and died in 1758, was professor of botany at the Jardin 
du Roi, and member of the academy of sciences. He published various papers upon exotic plants, and a 
discourse upon the progress of botany. He also edited the v/orks of Barrelier. Bernard de Jussieu, his 
brother, born in 1698, died in 1777, was professor at the same garden, and member of the same academy. He 
also was author of various papers upon plants, a second edition of Tournefort's History of the Plants growing 
near Paris, and an arrangement of the plants growing in the garden of Trianon, which was published by his 
nephew. Joseph de Jussieu, a third brother, born in 1704, and died 1779. He was sent to South America by 
Louis XV., and remained there for six and thirty years. He made many discoveries, and brought home many 
new plants. Lastly, Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, their nephew, born in 1748, and still living, as demonstrator 
of botany at the Jardin du Roi, member of the Institute and of every learned body in Europe. He brought, 
m his Genera Plantarum, published in 1789, to a degree of extraordinary perfection, that system, the outlines of 
which liad been traced by the hand of Tournefort, and partially filled up by his uncle Bernard. That system 
nas now superseded, among men of science, all others, and if as yet inapplicable to merely popular purposes, 
can never be dispensed with in all philosophical investigations. 
1027. Getonia. A Malabar plant, the meaning of whose name has not been explained. Cuttings root 
freely m sand, under a hand-glass, and plunged in heat. 
and Miscellaneous Particulars. 
