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Monandria. 
cemose, or in bunches ; fig. 89. spiked, fig. 90. capital- 
ed, or in heads ; fig, 91. flosculous, fig. 92. semifloscu- 
lous, fig. 93. radiated, fig. 94-. florets. 
ILLUSTRATION OF THE CLASSES. 
CLASS I. 
MONANDRIA. 
The plants arranged under this class have one sta- 
men, and they are divided into two orders. 
■Obder I. Monogynia. 
In the distribution of the genera belonging to this 
order, four sections are formed. Sect. 1. contains the 
natural order called scitaminece , or spicy plants, all of 
which are exotics, and they are distinguished by hav- 
ing the germen inferior, and having one or two cells ; 
sect. 2. germen inferior, and four celled ; sect. 3. ger- 
men superior ; sect. 4. one seeded. 
Amomdm. Gen. char. — Cal. three cleft, unequal, 
cylindrical •, corolla tripartite, unequal, spreading ; 
meet. two lipped, and somewhat erect. 
Am. Zinziher, Ginger. Scape naked, spike and 
scales ovate, leaves lance-shaped, and ciliated on the 
margin near the summit. This plant has something 
of the habit of a grass in its appearance, and it 
