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* MARTYNIA diándra. 
Diandrous Martyma. 
DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Nat. ord. PEDALIACEZ. È 
MARTYNIA. Supra, vol. 11. fol. 934. 
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M. diandra ; caule ramoso, foliis oppositis cordatis dentatis, floribus diandris. 
Willd. sp. pl. 3. 263. 
M. diandra.” Gloxin. obs. p. 14. t. 1. Jacq. hort. Schónbr. 3. p. 21. t. 289. 
M. angulosa. Lamarck encycl. 2. 112. 
A tender annual, inhabiting the neighbourhood of Vera 
Cruz, and long ago introduced to this country, although now 
seldom seen. It grows from two to three feet high, has a 
pallid appearance, and is covered all over with long soft 
hairs, tipped with a glutinous exudation. The flowers, which 
grow in short racemes from the axil of the leaves, are a most 
delicate pink fading to white, with the tips of the lobes of 
the corolla deeply stained with crimson; moreover, a bright 
yellow broken streak passes down the tube of the corolla from 
the middle of the lip. The calyx, which is pale green, 1$ 
enveloped in two oval, concave, delicate, membranous, pink 
bractlets, and springs from the axil of a stalked wedge-shaped 
bract of the same texture and. colour. 
Altogether it is a pretty plant and worth cultivation, not- 
id HA nt smell emitted by the 
withstanding a somewhat unpleasa 
* Named by Houstoun in compliment to his friend Mr. dota aa ihe 
Professor of Botany at Cambridge, and the father of the — "i rod 
same chair for so many years, without performing any other duty than 
receiving his salary. : È “ 
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