CLASS IX. ENNEANDRIA. 
(nine stamina or males.) 
Containing three orders. 
ORDER I. MONOGYNIA. 
(one female.) 
N° of 
Species in 
Genera. 
Growth, species. Native of 
Britain. 
Anacardium* t 1 E. & W. Indies 
Gassy ta 
h 2 India 
Laurusf 
s 16 India, Persia 
Tinus 
s 1 W. Indies 
X 
Rheum 
ORDER II. TRIGYNIA. 
(three females.) 
h 7 China, Asia 
Butomus 
ORDER III. HEXAGYNIA. 
(six females.) 
h 1 Europe 
Brit* 1 
* The milky juice of the true anacardium occidentale (Cashew nut) will stain 
linen of a deep black, which cannot be washed out; and Mr, Miller says, the in¬ 
spissated juice of the tree is the best sort of lack , which is used for staining of black 
in China and Japan.—The semecarpus anacardium is used for the same purpose. 
f The true cinnamon is the bark of the laurus cinnamomum; and the base cin¬ 
namon, which is often sold for the true, is the bark of the laurus cassia .—The 
commercial drug, camphor , is obtained from another species of laurus , called lau¬ 
rus camphora; but camphor may be also obtained, in small quantities, from the 
roots of zedoary , thyme, rosemary , sage, anemony , &c. by distillation. Thyme and 
peppermint , slowly dried, afford much camphor. (Gregory's Economy of Nature, 
v. iii* p. 52). Lpurvs benzoin from Sumatra, is said to be the true benzoin of the 
shops.—Phil. Sdci. at Haarlem.— Stt terminalia benzoin , The stamens in laurus 
vary as to number. Laurus nobilis is the laurel of the antients, the berries of 
which are an article of commerce, and are esteemed carminative, &c. 
