for it belongs to Dioecia Monadelphia. The Order however must be retained for the sake of Stylidium, a New Holland genus, related, as above mentioned, to Forstera. This is my Ventenatia, Exot. Bot. t. 66, 67; but another genus having previously, without my knowledge, received the latter denomination, that of Stylidium, under which I had, some time ago, communicated this genus to the French botanists[1], and which they have adopted, becomes established. See La Billardiere's excellent work on New Holland plants, where several species of it are figured.
5. Pentandria. The original genera of this Order, Ayenia, Gluta, and Passiftora, Exot. Bot. t. 28, most unquestionably have nothing to do with it, their stamens being inserted below the germen, merely on a
- ↑ I was not aware of Loureiro's Stylidium, a plant, according to his description, of the 7th Class; Fl. Cochinch. v. 1. 221; but this can scarcely interfere with ours, being probably, as it grows about Canton, some well-known shrub that happened to have a 7-cleft flower. It should seem to belong to the Rubaceæ, notwithstanding some points in the description.
