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CYRTANDRACE. 
Among the bilabiate monepetals having a superior ovary with very many ovules the order Cyrtandracew is generally well 
distinguished by the one-celled ovary with two carpels : the edges of the carpellary leaves being turned in a long way so as (in the typical 
genera) to nearly meet the opposite pair and then to be recurved round. Vid. Tab XLIV. fig. 8, Tab LI. fig. 5, Tab LXXXVIIL. fig. 5, 
Tab XCI. fig. 5. In several genera the corolla ig not bilabiate but the irregularity of five corolla segments with four stamens is presented. 
The edges of the carpellary leaves are however in some genera not turned in so far as in the pictures just quoted and there then remains 
only an arbitrary line between the Cyrtandracew and Orobanchacew. In Orobanche itself the placental double lines are turned in a little 
way and diverge. The distinction then stands that in Cyrtandracew the albumen is none or small, in Orobanchaces abundant. But the 
seeds in both orders are so minute that this character is exceedingly troublesome to work with, and sometimes the albumen present in 
Cyrtandracex appears to me not to be very small in quantity. Christisonia of Wight (formerly Phelipoea) has been removed by some from 
Orobancl to Cyrtand 
TI have omitted it on the ground that the best distinction remaining between the two orders lies in the 
parasitism of Orobanchacew. I should indeed prefer to throw the two orders together. 
The books to which reference is made are : 
(1.) Roxburgh’s Flora Indica, Carey’s Edition. 
(2.) Roxburgh’s Coromandel Plants. 
(3.) Wallich’s Plante Asiatice rariores. 
(4.)  Horsfield, Plantes Javanice. 
(5. 
(6.) De Candolle, Prodromns Vol. IX. 
(7.) Miquel, Flora Indie Batavie: Vol. IT. 
(8.) Bentham, Flora of Hongkong. 
Lv 
Wight, Icones Plantarum. 
(9.) Hooker's Illustrations of Himalayan Plants. 
And I haye reduced my work to the standard of De Candolle Prodromus Vol. IX. 
