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NATURAL HISTORY. 
the splitting of the former cylindraceous filament, incumbent on it, 
answering to it in situation, simple and gradually shorter ; its base is 
detached from the rest, and prepares an outlet for the honey on each 
side. The anther® reckoned all together are ten, one on the uppei 
filament, and nine on the lower, each of the radii being furnished 
with a single oue ; they are small, all of one size, and terminate 
the radii. 
PISTILLUM. — Single, growing out of the receptacle, within the 
calyx. The gerrnen oblong, roundish, lightly compressed, straight, 
of the length of the cylinder of the lower filament which involves it. 
The style subulate, filiform, ascending, having the same length and 
position as the radii of the filament among which it is placed, and 
withering. The stigma downy, of the length of the style from the 
part turned upwards, and placed immediately under the anther®. 
PKRICARPIUM. — A legumen, oblong, compressed, obtuse, bi- 
valved, with a longitudinal suture both above and below; each suture 
straight, though the upper one falls near the base, and the lower one 
rises near the top. The legumen opens at the upper suture. 
SEEDS. — A few, roundish, smooth, fleshy, pendulous, marked 
with an embryo that is a little prominent towards the point of in- 
sertion. When the ova are hatched, the cotyledons preserve the 
form of the halved seed. 
RECEPTACLE. — The proper receptacles of the seeds are very 
small, very short, thinner towards the base, obtuse at the disk that 
fastens them, oblong, inserted longitudinally in the upper suture o- 
the legumen only, but placed alternate : so that when the Valvulse 
have been parted, the seeds adhere alternately to each of the valves. 
The ordinary situation of the flowers is obliquely pendulous ; that 
is, at an acute angle from the perpendicular. The orders are four, 
viz. 
Order I. PENTANDRIA, comprehending such plants as have 
five stamina. Of this order there is only one genus, viz. Monnieria. 
Order II. HEXANDRIA, comprehending such plants as have 
six stamina. This order contains two genera, viz. Fumaria, Fumi- 
tory, and Saraca. 
Order III. OC fANDRIA, comprehending such plants as have 
eight stamina. This order contains three genera, viz. Polygala, 
Milkwort, Securidnca, and Dalbergia. 
Order IV. DECANDRIA, comprehending such plants as have 
ten stamina. This order contains fifty genera, distinguished into, 1. 
Such as have monodelphions* filaments; of which there are seventeen 
viz. Nissolia, Erytbrina, Coral Tree, Piscidia, Borbonia, Spartium, 
Broom, Genista, Single-seeded Broom, Aspalathus, African Broom, 
Amorpha, Bastard Indigo, Crotolaria, Ononis, Root Harrow, Anthyl- 
lis. Kidney Vetch, or Lady’s Finger, Ebcnus, Ebony of Crete, Abrus, 
Pteiocarpus, Ulex, Furze, Whins, or Gorss Arachis, Ground Nut, 
and Lupinus, Lupine. 2. Such as have diadelphiousf filaments and 
downy stigma ; of which there are ten, viz. Phaseolus, Kidney Bean, 
* One set, or brotherhood. 
+ Two sets, or brotherhoods. 
