OYNANDRIA. 
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Pistillum. Germen always below the corolla, oblong, and 
twisted like a screw. Style single, very short, forming 
one substance with the inner margin of the upper lip of 
the neetaritun, so as both style and stigma are scarce to 
be perceived. 
Pericarpium. A capsule, one cell, three valves, opening, at 
the angles under the keel-shaped sutures, and joined both 
at top and bottom, 
Semina. Very small, like saw-dust, very numerous, fixed 
(without footstalks) to a linear receptacle, at each valve. 
This class contains nine orders. 
ORDER I. DIANDRLA * 
(two males.) 
Obs, It is observed, that though the stamina in this first order are only considered 
as two , yet each of them appears to be composed of a great number of elastic fibres 
united together, each fibre supporting its own proper anthera; these fibres branch 
out into lesser, each supporting at its point an extreme minute anthera. 
N° of 
N° Genera* Growth, species* Native of 
Species in 
Britain. 
1 Arethusa h 7 
2 Cypripedium h 3 
3 Disa h 4 
4 Epidendrumf s 32 
5 Forstera h 1 
6 Gunnera s 1 
7 Limodorum h 3 
8 Ophrys h 28 
Virginia, Cape 
Lapland, Japan Brit. 1 
Cape 
E. & W. Indies 
New Zealand 
Cape 
Jamaica 
Alps Brit. 13 
* The plants of this order are possessed of restorative qualities, which chiefly 
belong to the roots: they are acrid when fresh, but lose that quality when diy, or 
by warm water. 
t The venelloes , which is an ingredient in chocolate, is the pod of the epiden- 
inm vanilla. Most of the species are parasitical. 
