CLASS V. PENTANDRIA, 
(five stamina or males.) 
Containing six orders. 
ORDER I. MONOGYNIA * 
(one female.) 
N° of Species fa 
Genera. Growth. Species. Native of Britain. 
1st. Flowers one-petaled, beneath , one-seeded . 
1 Mirabilis 
2 Plumbago 
3 Weigela 
4 Xystris 
h 3 Mexico 
h 4 Spain, Italy, Zeylon 
_ 1 Japan 
s 1 
« 2d. Flowers one-petaled, beneath , two-seeded. 
Hough-leaved. 
5 Cerinthe h 2 Europe 
6 Messerschimidia s &h 2 Dauria 
3d. Flowers one-petaled , beneath, four-seeded. 
Hough-leaved. 
7 Ancbusa h 8 America Brit. I 
8 Asperugo h 2 Egypt Brit. 1 
9 Borago h 5 Africa, India Brit. 1 
10 Cynoglossum h 14 Virginia, Peru Brit. 1 
11 Echium s&h 16 Italy, &c. Brit. 2 
12 Heliotropium s&h 17 Europe, India, Peru 
^The berries of the monopetalous plants of this first order, are for the most part 
poisonous,—The rough-leaved plants aie said to be glutinous and vulnerary: they 
are the asperifolvoe of Ray, having four naked seeds. 
