evergreen undivided leaves without sti- 

 pules, the flowers usually in racemes. 

 There are four or Ave calyx lohes and 

 petals, and as many or twice as many 

 slightly perigynous stamens. The ovary is 

 two, three, or four-celled, with one pendu- 

 lous ovule in each cell, and bears as many 

 stigmas as cells. The fruit is usually suc- 

 culent ; the seeds albuminous with anaxile 

 embryo. There are about six species 

 known from North or Tropical America, 

 constituting four genera, Cyrilla, Mylo- 

 caryum, Elliottia, and. Purdicea. 



CYRILLA. A genus of Cyrillacece, con- 

 sisting of plants from the warmer parts of 

 North America, with the habit of some of 

 the larger shrubby species of Andromeda. 

 Leaves alternate, wedge-shaped; racemes 

 lateral, elongated, aggregated ; flowers 

 sinall, white, with a five-cleft calyx, five 



i petals, and five stamens ; ovary two-celled ; 



\ capsule fleshy, two-valved, two-seeded. C. 



! caroliniana is a handsome greenhouse 



! shrub. [J. T. SJ 



I CYRTANDRACEJE or CYRTANDRE^. 

 A tribe of Gesncracece, formerly considered 



! as a separate family, including all the 

 Asiatic genera which have no albumen in 



i the seed, whilst the American genera were 



l all believed to be possessed of albumen. 



! These and some other slight distinctions 



' have, however, all proved less constant 

 than had been supposed, and the two 

 groups are now acknowledged to be tribes 

 of one family. The Cyrtandrece proper 

 consist of above thirty genera, including 

 Bamondia and Haberlea from Europe, 

 jEichynanthus, Chirita, Bidymocarpus, and 

 many others from Asia, Streptocarpus from 

 South Africa, Klu.gia from Eastern Tropi- 

 cal Asia and Mexico, and perhaps Nape- 



: anthus from Brazil. 



CYRTANDRA. A genus of Cyrtandrous 

 Gesneracece, containing a considerable 

 number of caulescent undershrubsor herbs, 

 natives of the Moluccas. They have oppo-' 

 site leaves, equal or frequently with one side 

 : dwarfed or aborted. Their flowers are in 

 axillary fascicles or heads, seldom solitary. 

 ■ The calyx is tubular, with five more or less 

 | deeply-cut lobes ; the corolla funnel-shaped, 

 with the limb spreading and cleft into five 

 obtuse lobes: there are four to five sta- 

 mens, two of which only are fertile ; the 

 ovary is cylindrical, containing many 

 ovules attached to two two-lobed revolute 

 parietal placenta} ; the stigma is obtuse or 

 emarginate. The fruit is a many-seeded 

 ovate berry. [W. C] 



CYRTANTHERA. A genus of Acan- 

 tharece, natives of Tropical America, con- 

 sisting of some eight species of caulescent 

 | shrubs, with broad petiolate leaves, and 

 : large scarlet flowers like those of Aplie- 

 landra, arranged in a beautiful dense ter- 

 minal thyrse, except in one species, in 

 which they are in axillary cymes. The 

 calyx is cleft into five equal coloured parts ; 

 the ringent corolla has a long tube, and 

 the limb is divided into two lips, the lower 

 of which is trifid : there are two stamens 



inserted at the base of the tube and ad- 

 herent to it beyond the middle ; the anthers 

 are two-celled; the stigma is obtuse and 

 undivided. [W. C] 



CYRTANTHUS. A genus of handsome 

 AmaryllidacecB, consisting of bulbous 

 herbs, with two-ranked narrow elongate 

 I leaves, and many-flowered umbels of flow- 

 I ers. The perianth has a curved narrow 

 funnel-shaped tube, which is often a little 

 ventricose, and a limb of six short sub- 

 equal segments; the filaments of the six 

 ! stamens straight, decurrent, inserted in 

 the upper portion of the tube. They are 

 | South African plants, the type of the genus 

 j being C. obliquus. This has globose bulbs 

 as large as a man's fist, persistent lanceo- 

 llate entire leaves an inch wide, and an 

 I erect scape supporting a loose umbel of 

 j numerous pendulous flowers, orange-col- 

 our mixed with yellow and green, the tube 

 sensibly widened upwards, an inch and a 

 half long, and the limb spreading, nearly 

 as long as the tube. In another group of 

 | the species the leaves are deciduous. One 

 | of them, C. striatus, has subacute leaves a 

 foot long, and half an inch wide, and an : 

 umbel of three or four pendulous narrow 

 - funnel-shaped flowers two and a half inches 

 long, red, striped with yellow. C. odorus 

 has fragrant crimson flowers; whilst in , 

 C. collinus they are poppy scarlet. [T. M.j 



CYRTOCERAS. Centrostema. 



CYRTOGONIUM. Pcecilopteris. 



CYRTOGYNE. A genus of succulent- 

 leaved undershrubs, belonging to the order 

 Crassulaceae, having white flowers in cymes, 

 with a five-parted corolla whose segments 

 are much longer than those of the calyx. 

 The stamens are inserted into the base of 



i the corolla, with whose lobes they alter- ; 

 nate, and within them are five small hy- ! 

 pogynous scales. The ovary consists of j 



| five oblong carpels, gibbous at the top, j 

 and ending in long styles. C. albiflora, a 

 native of the Cape of Good Hope, is in cul- j 

 tivation. [M. T. M.] j 



I CYRTOLEPIS. A genus of Composite, 

 i composed of a few small annual herbs,found 

 ; in northern Africa and Asia Minor. They 

 I have much resemblance to the chamomile 

 (Anthemis), and are nearly related to that 

 genus, differing only in having winged 

 j achenes, the wings toothed, those of An- 

 themis not being winged. They have al- 

 ternate pinnatisect leaves with linear seg- 

 ments, yellow flower-heads with an invo- 

 lucre of one series of roundish scales, which 

 enclose a large number of tubular five- 

 toothed florets. [A. A. B.] 



CYRTOMIUM. A genus of polypodia- 



ceous ferns, belonging to that series of the 



Aspidiece which have reticulated veins 



and peltate indusia. The characteristics 



1 of Cyrtomium, as shown in the more typical 



j plants, consist in the veins being pin- 



nato-furcate from a central costa, the lower 



anterior venules being free, and the rest 



! angularly and irregularly anastomosing, 



1 forming unequal subhexagonal areoles, 



