in number, and exist in the form of larj^e apterous seeds 
between the inner edge of the lateral lobes of the placenta 
and the endocarpium. 
From the 2d section of Jussieu's Bignonise, or what are 
now considered genuine Bignoniacea% Martynia is therefore 
distinguished by its unilocular ovariiuu : it also differs 
in the definite number of its seeds, which have a woody 
testa, and no wing ; in its nearly indehiscent fruit ; and 
in the cohesion of its anthers ; and in the compound, not 
simple, nature of its calyx. Of the value of the first point 
of difference, which we do not consider material, we shall 
have more room to speak when we come to Eccremocarpus, 
fol. 939. To the others, we are disposed to attach a higher 
degree of importance. In fact, they indicate a greater 
affinity between Pedalinae and Martynia, than Bignoniaceae. 
The former order, which was first proposed by Mr. Brown, 
excludes Martynia, chiefly on account of the seeds of the 
latter being more than one or two ; but this circumstance 
is of much less importance than the union of other 
characters by which it could be included. The texture of 
the capsule, the testa and form of the seeds, and even the 
position of the latter, which, although erect in Josepliinia, 
are pendulous in Pedalium, are the same in Martynia and 
Pedalinse. To the latter order, slightly modified, we 
would, therefore, refer Martynia. 
We observe, that Pedalinae are reduced to Bignoniaceae, 
by our friend M. Kunth, but in that opinion we cannot 
coincide. See fol. 939. 
J. L. 
