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MONANDRIA, 
ORDER I. MONOGYNIA. 
(one female.) 
Containing such plants as have only one female: undei; 
the following distinctions: 
1st. Scit amine ou$% beneath; or fruit-celled beneath. 
N° Genera® 
1 Alpinia 
2 Amomumf 
3 Canna 
4 Costus 
5 Cucullaria 
6 Curcuma 
7 Kaempferia 
8 MarantaJ 
9 Myrosma 
10 Qualea 
11 Renealmia 
12 Thalia 
13 Boerhaavia 
14 Hippuris§ 
15 Salicornia 
16 Pollichia 
N° of 
Growth, species. Native of 
h 2 America 
h 6 W. Indies 
h 3 America 1 
h 1 Arabia and Indies 
h 1 
h 2 India 
h 2 E. Indies 
li 3 India 
h 1 Surinam 
h 1 
h 1 Surinam 
h 1 America 
2d. One-seeded , 
h 6 La-vera-crux 
h 2 Europe 
s & h 6 Arabia 
h 1 Cape 
Species in 
Britain. 
% 
Brit. 1 
Brit. 2 
* Scitamineousj (from scitamentum) because some of the plants afford delicious 
fruit. Scitaminece is also the name of the 8th order in Linnaeus’s Fragwients of f 
Natural Method, containing most of the above plants. 
Cardamom seeds are from a species of amomum , called amomum cardamomum • 
J Maranta arundinacea (Indian arrow-root) called so, because the Indians, by 
using it as a poultice, expel the poison of their arrows, it also extracts the poison 
of the manchineel tree , and the venom of insects. And the root dried and made 
into powder, and mixed with hot water, is said to make an agreeable and nutritious 
beverage, and may be bought at the shops of the druggists; and the best sort sells 
for about 7s. 6d. per lb. 
§ Hippuris is called mare’s-ta,il, to distinguish it from equisetum, (horse-tail) ; it 
hath a single jointed stalk, and at each joint are twelve (more or less) leaves, placed 
in a whorl; to each of these leaves, close to the stalk, belongs a little flower, with 
one stamen, one pistil, and one seed. 
