CLASS II. DIANDRIA * 
(two stamina, or males.) 
Containing three orders . 
ORDER I. MONOGYNIA. 
(one female.) 
N° 
Genera, 
N° of 
Growth, species. 
Native of 
Species in 
Britain, 
1st. Flowers beneath, one-petaled, regular. 
1 Arouna (cor. none) h 1 
£ Chionanthus s 2 
3 Eranthemum s 4 
4 Jasminum s 9 
5 Ligustrum s £ 
6 Nyctanthe&f s 1 
7 OJeaJ s Q 
8 Phillyrea s 3 
9 Sciuris h 1 
10 Syringa s 3 
South Carolina 
^Ethiopia 
India 
India 
Spain 
Europe 
Persia 
Brit. 1 
* Several plants of this class diandria , are so similar to many of the class dicfy* 
namia , that it is often very difficult to distinguish them: The flowers are nearly 
of the same form, and though many have properly only two stamina (the other 
two wanting antherae) ; yet have filaments so very like stamina, that botanists have 
sometimes confounded the two classes, as to several plants. 
f Nyctanthes sambac (Arabian jasmine) flowers, and gives its perfume in the 
night, and not in the day ; whence the name. But Aiton has taken sambae (to 
which he gives several varieties) from nyctanthes , and placed it under jasminum; 
and only allows one species to nyctanthes, viz. arbor-tristis . 
} The European olive (olea Europoea) bears the fruit for pickling; but as there 
are many varieties of this species; that most in esteem grows in France, called the 
province olive , both for the flavour of the fruit, and its oil. The olives we have from 
Spain are much larger, but both the fruit and the oil have a disagreeable flavour# 
In China the manner of gathering their olives is very convenient; they bore a hole 
in the trunk of the tree, and after having put some salt into it, they stop it up, and 
in a few days the fruit drops of itself.—Abbe Grosier’s description of China, 1788® 
