9 % BECANDRIA. 
ORDER IV, PENTAGYNIA. 
(five females.) 
N® Genera, 
Growth. 
N° of 
species. Native of 
Species In 
Britain. 
87 Agrostemma 
h 
4 
Europe 
Brit. 1 
88 Averrhoa* 
S 
2 
India 
89 Bergia 
h 
2 
Cape 
90 Cerastium 
h 
16 
Alps 
Brit. 8 
91 Cotyledon 
h 
15 
Cape, Siberia 
Brit. 2 
92 Forskohlea 
k 
3 
Cape 
93 Grielum 
94 Joncoquetia 
s 
h 
l 
1 
iEtbiopia 
95 Lychnist 
h 
10 
Siberia 
Brit. 3" “ 
96 Oxalis 
h 
26 
Africa, America 
Brit. 1 
97 Penthorum 
h 
1 
Virginia 
98 Sedum 
h 
20 
Europe, &c. 
Brit. 8 
99 Spergula 
h 
5 
Europe 
Brit. 4 
100 Spondias| 
t 
2 
W. Indies 
101 Suriana 
s 
.1 
W. Indies 
ORDER V. DECAGYNIA. 
(ten females.) 
102 Neurad'i h 1 Egypt^, Arabia 
103 Phytolacca s St h 4 America 
* Averrhoa carambola is a remarkable sensitive tree, similar to some species of 
mimosa; it grows in Bengal, and is there called camruc or camrunga. The stamin^. 
are ten, yet only the five longer have antherae; the leaves are alternately pinnated, 
with an odd one; the moving quality is only in the leaves (not the petiole) which 
will bend down from the petiole so as to touch one another with their under sides, 
yet the petiole is the sensitive part which must receive the touch, or be some way 
injured by it, to affect the leaves ; the touch must be by striking the part with the 
hail or any hard body, for if the branch is moved gently by the hand or wind, nq 
motion takes place: after sun-set the leaves go to sleep, by bending down from the 
petiole, so as to touch by their under sides r the other spepies of this genus have no 
sensitive power. Philo. Trans, vol. 75. 
In the 8th edit, of Gen . Plant, averrhoa is placed in monadelphia decandria. 
f In bachelor's button (lychnis dioica) the male and female flowers grow on 
different plants. 
JThe wood of the spondias mombin is so soft and spongeous, that it is used to 
stop bottles instead of cork ; and is said to be brought to England for that purpose 
