386 CVIl. BIGNONIACEX. (C. B. Clarke.) [Amphicome. 
W. HIMALAYA, alt. 2-9000 ft., from Kashmir to Nepal; Wallich, Blinkworth, 
&c.—DisTRIB. Cabul ? 
Glabrous. Racemes not rarely 2-3, subpanicled. Flowers often not larger than 
those of A, arguta.—This species is very near 4. arguta : the Affghanistan examples 
referred to 4. emodi are all hairy. 
Orvrer CVIII. PEDALINEZ.. (By C. B. Clarke.) 
Herbs or undershrubs. Leaves opposite, or the upper alternate, entire 
toothed or divided. Flowers irregular, (in the Old-World species) axillary, 
solitary or rarely clustered; pedicels short; bracts 0 or very small. Calyx 
deeply 4—5-lobed. Corolla tubular-ventricose; limb obscurely 2-lipped ; 
lobes 5, imbricate. Stamens 4, didynamous; rarely 2. Ovary 2- (sometimes 
1-) celled; style filiform, stigma shortly 2-lobed; ovales few or many, 
superposed. Capsule 2- or 3-4-celled, indehiscent or dehiscent. Seeds (in 
the Indian species) wingless, exalbuminous.—Species 40, in the warmer 
parts of both hemispheres. 
The Indian species are readily distinguished from Bignoniacee by their herbaceous 
habit and wingless seeds, and from most Scrophularinee by their few or 1-seriate 
seeds. 
Martynia diandra, Glox. (DC. Prodr. ix. 253), an American weed (called Tiger- 
claw or Devil’s-claw), is now common in the Gangetic Plain and elsewhere in India ; 
it is a rank coarse herb with capsules beaked by strong curved spines. 
Capsule spinous, indehiscent. Seeds 2-1 in each cell . . . . . 1. PrFDALIUM. 
Capsule spineless, 2-4-valved. Seeds many in each cell . . . . 2. SESAMUM. 
I. PEDALIUM, Linn. 
A glabrous annual. Leaves opposite or alternate, petioled, ovate, 
incised. Pedicels axillary, solitary, short, 2-glandular at the base. Calyz 
small, 5-partite. Corolla yellow; lobes round, patent. Stamens 4, didyna- 
mous, included ; anther-cells ovate, parallel, separate, pendulous. Ovary 
2-celled; ovules 2 in each cell. Capsule hard, indehiscent, upper portion 
pyramidal-ovoid with 4 patent spines from its base. Seeds 2-1 in each 
cell, pendulous, oblong, testa black. 
J rex, Linn. ; O. Prodr. ix. 256; Burm. Fl. Ind. 139, t. 45, 
fig. 2; Gaertn. Fruct. i. 276, t. 58; Lamk. lll. t. 538; Roxb. 
ox 114; Wall. Cat. 6410; Wight Ic. t. 1615; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. 
. 162. 
DECCAN PENINSULA and CEYLON, frequent.— DISTRIB. Trop. Africa. 
A weedy herb, 6-15 in. Leaves 2-4 in., irregularly toothed or almost lobed ; 
petiole }-1} in. Pedicels2 in. Calyx à in.; teeth linear. Corolla 1 in., funnel- 
shaped, glabrous. Fruit $ by } in. 
Il. SESAMUM, Linn. 
Erect or prostrate herbs. Leaves opposite, upper alternate, entire 
toothed lobed or divided. Flowers axillary, solitary, or few and fascicled, 
short-pedicelled, pale or purplish, sometimes yellow-marked. Calyx small, 
5-partite. Corolla tubular-ventricose, base subgibbous; limb 2.lipped, | 
lobes 5, rounded. Stamens 4, didynamous, included; anthers sagittate, cells | 
2 subparallel. Ovary 2-celled, early falsely 4-celled, cells many-ovuled. | 
Capsule oblong or ovoid, loculicidally 2-valved, unarmed, in appearance 
