PENTANDRIA. 
67 
N° o f 
Species in 
' N° Genera, 
Growth. 
species. Native of 
Britain. 
Berries. 
144 Aquilieia 
8 
1 
India 
145 Ceanothus 
S 
3 
America. Asia* Africa 
346 Gelaslrus 
s 
16 
Virginia, JEthiopia 
147 Euonymus 
, S ' - 
7 
Virginia, Japan 
Brit. 1 
148 Hirtella 
s 
1 
Basil 
149 Rhamnus* 
s 
27 
Europe, Judea, Alps 
Brit. 2 
150 Vitisf 
s 
11 
Europe, Japan 
151 Mangifera,^ drupe t 
2 
India 
152 Corynocarpus,7mf h 
1 
New Zealand 
153 Brunia, seed 1 
s 
8 
Africa 
154 Kuhnia, seed 1 
s 
1 
W. Indies 
155 Nauclea, seed 1 
t & s 
3 
Oriental 
156 Ruyschia 
s 
1 
157 Caroxylon, seed 1 
1 
158 Elaeodendron, drupe 
1 
Oriental 
9th. Flowers five-petaled, above. 
159 Argophillum 
h 
1 
New Caledonia 
160 Carpodctus 
h 
1 
161 Conocarpus, seed 1 s 
3 
W. Indies 
* From, the berries of the common buckthorn (rhamnus catharticus) is made a 
•very fine green colour, called by the French, verd~de-vessie, much esteemed by 
miniature painters .—Rhamnus theezans is used by the lower people in China in¬ 
stead of tea.—The fruit of the rhamnus zizyphus, (Jujube tree) in France and Italy, 
furnish part of the winter dessert for the table. 
•f* Each corol of the vine (vitis vinifera) consists of five green petals, (appearing 
like a bud) which does not open at the top like other corols; butbecomjes detached 
at the base by the forcible ad vance of the stamina, and rises, up along with them like 
a little hood or cowl, and then drops off, and the stamina expand themselves. Foreign 
turrans or currants, ox more properly Corinths, because they were chiefly cultivated 
about Corinth, are a very small sweet high-flavoured black or purple grape, gene¬ 
rally without stones, (being a variety of the vitis vinifera) they are picked from the 
stalks and dried in the sun, and we have them now chiefly from Zante, an island 
in the Mediterranean sea, about twenty-four miles in length and twelve in breadth, 
and in common years is said to produce between nine and ten millions of pounds. 
J Mangifera indica (the mango tree) is inserted in this class, although in reality 
it is polygamous, and hitherto very imperfectly described ; the Indian curry \a spicy 
powder) is not only obtained from the fruit of this tree, but they have curries made 
of fish, fowl, or the flesh of mutton and goat. 
Boyd's Embassy to the King of Candy, in 1782. 
