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MONADELPHTA. 
ORDER IX. POLYANDRIA. 
(many stamina or males.) 
N° of Speeies ifo 
N® Genera. Growth, species. Native of Britain. 
One female. 
36 Achania 
s & h 
3 
Jamaica, America 
37 Adansonia* 
t 
1 
Senegal 
38 Aleurites 
h 
I 
39 Barringtonia 
t 
1 
China, Taheite 
40 Bombaxf 
t 
4 
E. & W. Indies 
41 Camellia 
s 
2 
Japan 
42 CarolineaJ 
t . 
1 
Mexico, Guinea 
43 Cienfuegosia 
h 
1 
44 Couroupita 
h 
1 
45 Crossostylis 
h 
1 
46 Franklinia§ 
s 
1 
Georgia 
47 Gordonia 
s' , 
1 
Carolina 
48 Gossypiumfj 
s & h 
6 
Levant, Barbaddes, &e» 
49 Gustavia 
t 
1 
Surinam 
50 Hibiscus 
s & h 30 
Africa, America, Ceylon 
* Adansonia digitata receives Hs name from Mr.Adanson, who says the diameter 
of the trunk frequently exceeds twenty-five feet, and is supposed to be the largest' 
tree in the world. The horizontal branches are from forty-five to fifty-five feet 
long, and so large rfe to equal the largest tfee in Europe, and yet these stupendous 
trees do not exceed seventy feet in hight. 
•f* The silk-cotton tree (bombax) grows to a very large size both in the E. and 
W. Indies, and the Wood being Very light, the trunk is chiefly hollowed for canoes. 
In Hispaniola it is called jaruma. 
} Carolineh omitted in the 8th. edit, of Gen. Plan . 
§j Franklinia alatamaha is said to be a new genus, (though nearly allied to got- 
donia) its trivial name is taken from a river in Georgia, Where it was found native 5 
it is a beautiful flowering tree-like shrub, rising about twenty feet; the flower is 
often five inches in diameter, consisting of five petals, with a tuft or crown of 
yellow stamina, and hath the fragrance of a China orange. Pranklinia is not in 
the 8th edit, of Gen* Plan . 
ft The cotton from the Levant is said to be from the gossypiicm herkacemn; it is 
sown in Spring, and is ripe in about four months: That from the E. and W. Indies 
is from a shrub. 
