CLASS XVIII. POLYADBLPHIA. 
(many brotherhoods.) 
The flowers of this class have their stamina in three of 
more sets or bodies, severally united at the base; and gene'* 
Tally placed on the receptacle 
Containing four orders. 
ORDER I. PENTANDRTA. 
(five stamina or males in EACH SET.) 
N° of Species in 
N° Genera. Growth# species. Native of Britain* 
I Ambroma h 1 
% Theobromaf t Q W. Indies 
ORDER II. DODECANDRIA. 
(FROM TWELVE TO TWENTY MALES IN SEVERAL SETS.) 
3 Monsonia s 3 Cape 
ORDER III. ICOSANDRIA. 
(TWENTY MALES IN SEVERAL SETS.) 
4 CitrusJ t 4 Asia, Japan, &c. 
* See note to aizoon , where the stamina are inserted by sets into the calyx* 
fTheolroma cacao, though called chocolate nut, is not properly a nut, but, 
according to Linnaeus* hath an oblong woody pod or pericarpium, containing many 
fleshy seeds, of which chocolate is made; and what is called cocoa in the shops* 
is made of the shells, husks, and refuse of the chocolate. 
X Bergamot is a fragrant essence obtained from a cyon of the limon (citrus me* 
dica) grafted on the stock of a bergamot; whence the name. Citrus medica (th$ 
citron) contains also several varieties, as lime y limen, &c. 
