110 Bolyandria. 
five-celled, five-valved, opening at the base. Spec, char , 
— Flowers destitute of nectary, leaves heart-shaped; 
branches of the veins downy. In woods and hedges. 
Corchorus. Gen. char. — Cal. five-leaved, length 
of the corolla deciduous ; caps, about five-celled. 
Cor. Siliquosus , Podded Broom-weed 5 with linear 
compressed capsules, and lanceolate leaves. A native 
of Jamaica, where it grows to the height of three feet. 
Cor. Olitorius, Common Jews Mallow ; with oblong 
ventricose capsules; grows to the height of two feet, 
and is cultivated as a pot-herb at Aleppo. The Jews 
boil the leaves, and eat them with their meat. 
Thea. Tea-tree. Gen. char.— Cal. five or six-leav- 
ed ; petals six or nine ; caps, three-celled ; seeds soli- 
tary. Two species, Thea Viridis and Thea Bohea , are 
described as distinct by some botanists, while they are 
considered by others as only varieties. In the first, or 
the green tea, the stem is covered with a thin, ash-co- 
loured bark ; the leaves are oval, pointed, serrated, and 
of a deep green. In the bohea, the branches of the 
foot-stalks of the leaves and flowers are reddish, the 
leaves are larger, wrinkled, and of a pale bluish green. 
Order II. Digynia. 
P;eonia. Gen. char. — Cal. five leaved ; petals five, 
regular; germens from two to five; no style 3 caps, 
many seeded. 
The common pseony rose is a splendid ornament of 
the garden and shrubbery ; and Paeonia Tenuifoluh 
