GYNANDRIA, (from γυνή, a "woman;" and ἀνδρ., a "man,") the name of the 20th class in Linnaeus's sexual system, consisting of plants with hermaphrodite flowers, in which the stamens are placed upon the style, or pillar-shaped receptacle resembling a style, which rises in the middle of the flower, and bears both the stamens and stigma; that is, both the supposed organs of generation. See BOTANY, p. 65.
The flowers of this class, says Linnaeus, have a monstrous appearance, arising, as he imagines, from the singular and unusual situation of the parts of fructification.
* Florid.
lib. i.