Cyrilla
(named after Dominico Cyrillo, M.D., a professor of botany at Naples, and author of "Collectio Plantarum Rariorum Regni Neapol." 1788, "Tabulae Botanicae," 1790; he died in 1799). ORD. Cyrilleae. A small genus, containing two or three species (in reality perhaps forms of one) of greenhouse evergreen shrubs, natives of the southern parts of North America, West Indies, and Brazil. They thrive in a compost of sandy loam and peat. Cuttings root readily, placed in sand, under glass, with a small amount of bottom heat. C. antillana (Antilles). fl. white. July. h. 6ft. Antilles, 1824. C. racemiflora (raceme-flowered). fl. white, disposed in slender racemose spikes; corolla stellate, small, stiffish. June to August. l. obovate-oblong, shortly stalked. h. 6ft. Southern United States, 1765.