DIADELPHIA. 
m 
ORDER IV; DECANDRIA. 
(ten stamina or Males.) 
N° bf Species in 
N® Genera. Growth, species. Native of Britain. 
1st; Stamens all connected . 
8 Abrus 
s 
i 
9 Atnorplia 
s 
l 
10 Anthillis 
s & h 
15 
11 Arachis* 
h 
1 
12 Aspalathus 
s 
35 
13 Bbrbonia 
s 
6 
14 Bossiaea 
s 
1 
15 Crotalariaf 
h 
23 
16 Cylista 
s 
1 
27 Ebenus 
s 
1 
18 ErythrinaJ 
s fc h 
5 
19 Genista 
s 
14 
20 Ivira 
h 
l 
21 Lupinus§ 
h 
1 
22 Moutoucbia 
h 
l 
India 
Carolina 
Italy, &c. Brit. 1 
South America 
Crete, ./Ethiopia, India 
Cape 
Botany Bay 
China, Carolina 
Crete, Cape 
Carolina 
Spain, &c. Brit. 3 
Virginia, France 
* Arachis hypogcea (ground nut) receives its trivial name from hiding its seed 
in the earth ; the branches trail upon the ground, and the flowers (which are yel¬ 
low, and monaecious) are produced singly upon long foot-stalks, and as the flowers 
decay, the germen is thrust into the earth, where the pod is formed and ripened.— 
Similar to this is the cyclamen ; when the flowers decay, the footstalks twist them¬ 
selves spirally downwards to the earth, to lodge the seeds £ which are supposed for 
some time to receive nourishment from the plant, as they are often difficult to 
make grow when sowed in the common way.—Linnaeus also tells us that the little 
globular heads of the ttifolium suit err aneUin penetrate the earth.~The arachis 
hypogcea is cultivated in Spain and France for its oil: it is said that the seeds of it 
yield more than half their Weight of ah oil which is fit to be used in food, to burn 
in lamps, or employed in the arts* as in making soap, &c. 
f Crotalaria juncea is the Chinese heitip, very common in India, called su?m 9 
Or sunn hemp ; is mahaged in the same manner, and used for the same purposes 
as the common hemp. 
t Coral tree (erythrina) called so from the flowers being collected in long close 
spikes of a‘scarlet colour, somewhat resembling coral.—N. B. real coral not per¬ 
fectly known whether formed by animals, or to be a mineral, or of vegetable pro- 
duct\on:^Erythrina is also called the America?t bean tree , from its bearing pods 
with seeds in them like beans. 
% The seeds of the lupine were used by the Greeks for food; and Mr. Miller 
says that the white lupine is cultivated in some parts of Italy, as other pusle for food.. 
