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rinee and Verbenaceæ respectively bear to Scrophulariacee. 
These two genera cannot, therefore, be included in Sesamee 
without interfering too much with the ordinal character; but 
whether they should prove to be the nucleus of a small distinct 
order, or whether (which is more probable) they ought with 
Myoporinee to be included among Verbenaceæ, can only be 
determined when the latter order shall be completed. 
The Cyrtandracee were prepared by De Candolle before 
the- appearance of Brown’s Memoir (in Horsfield's Pl. Jav. 
Rar), but his son has made additions derived from that 
source as well as from what few materials he had since col- 
lected. Unfortunately he appears to bave possessed very 
few of the published species, and Brown had only enu- 
merated species in some of the genera; so that, for our her- 
baria, this order is still incomplete, in this respect. The 
genera included in Brown's paper are, of course, well defined, 
but there are six at least upon which we have not his opinion, 
Viz: Conandron and Napeanthus, published since his paper, 
Rehmannia and Isanthera, which had been described erro- 
neously as having bilocular ovaria, and therefore his atten- 
tion was not called to them, and Ramondia and Haberlea, 
both known to him, but excluded from Cyrtandraceæ for 
reasons which we cannot but regret he has not published. 
Recurring to the general arrangement of the orders we 
have just now been viewing,—were the structure of some 
anomalous Orobancheæ but better known to us, we should 
not hesitate in suggesting the formation, under the name of 
: J iaceæ, of one large Order, of which Bignonieæ, Crescen- 
tiee, Orobanchee, Gesneriee, Cyrtandree and Sesamee would 
Constitute so many tribes. This order and Scrophulariaceæ 
Consisting, the one of about 1000, the other of about 1800 
Species, would then be alike in the structure of the flower, 
ut different in the placentation ; they could in all cases 
distinguished from each other in flowering specimens or in 
fruit; and would also always be known from the allied orders - 
When in flower, and in most cases when in fruit. prec 
Hydrophyllacee, by Alphonse de Candolle, are placed next, 
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