MONOGRAPHLE 
PHANEROGAMARUM 
CYRTANDREJE 
(GESNERACEARUM TRIBUS) 
AUCTORE 
C. B. CLARKE 
PARS PRIMA 
8 1. INTRODUCTORY REMARKS. 
The Gesneraceæ are treated in DC. Prodr., 7, p. 523 ; they are » 
all Neogez:; the Cyrtandraceæ in DC. Prodr., 9, p. 258, are 
(2 species excepted) Gerontogeæ. The Cyrtandraceæ have a free, 
usually stipitate, ovary; the Gesneraceæ have, in the larger typical 
tribe, an inferior (or partly inferior) ovary. But there is a smaller 
tribe, the Besleriæ (DC. Prodr., 9, p. 537), which have the ovary 
superior; and further consideration has satisfied botanists that no 
distinction of ordinal value can be maintained between the Beslerieæ 
and the Old-World Cyrtandracez; indeed, in one case, that of 
Klugia azurea Schlecht. (DC. Prodr., 7. p. 543), it is (in DC. 
Prodr., 9, p. 275) united generically with the Old- World Glos- 
santhus. 
Besides the character taken from the superior ovary, botanists 
Surre AU Prodromus V. 1 
