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* MARTYNIA diandra. 



Diandrous Martynia. 



DIDYNAMIA AKGIOSPERMIA. 



Nat. ord. Pedaliace.e. 



MARTYNIA. Suprd, vol. 11. fol. 934. 



M. diandra ; caule ramoso, foliis oppositis cordatis dentatis, floribus diaiulris. 



WiUd. sp. pi. 3. 263. 

 M. diandra. Gloxin. obs. p. 1 4. <. 1 . Jac'i. hort. Schonbr. 3. p. 2 1 . /. 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, is 

 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- 

 withstanding a somewhat unpleasant smell emitted by the 



* Named by Houstoun in compliment to his friend Mr. John Martyn, 

 Professor of Botany at Cambridge, and the father of the gentleman who filled the 

 same chair for so many years, without performing any other duty than that of 

 receiving his salary. 



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