78. PEDALIACEM. 



Ovary 1-2-celled, or 4-celled by the growth of a second sep- 

 tum, not lobed. Style slender with a 2-lobed stigma. Ovules 

 few, or if many in one series, not scattered all over a broad 

 placenta (as in Scrophulariacese). Fruit capsular or indehis- 

 cent. Seeds wingless, exalbuminons. 



Ovary 1-locular with 2 parietal placenta. Fr. with 



indehiscent endocarp 1. Martynia. 



Ovary 2-spuriously 4-locular. Capsule dehiscent . 2. 'Sesamum. 



Martynia diandra, Glox. Bilai sarsar, K., is a handsome stout 

 viscidly-hairy herb with bro idly ovate cordate sinuate-toothed leaves 

 3-6" both ways on long petioles, and drooping purplish flowers 1£" long 

 in short racemes with pink bracteole3. Fruit sub-drupaceous but the 

 outer fleshy pericarp 2-valved. Endocarp armed with 2 sharp curved 

 claws. 



An American weed, now abundant in waste ground. 



Fls. r. s. Fr. c. «. 



Sesamum indieum, D.C. Tilming, K. The Gingeli oil plant is a 

 herb widely cultivated, 1-2 ft. high, more or less foetid and glandular, 

 with the opp. lower leaves often lobed, pedatis<»ct or toothed, upper 

 narrow sub-entire or toothed Fls. purple or white drooping \\" long. Cap- 

 sule 1'' long, narrow erect hairy. Fls. Oct. -Dec. Fr. Dec- Jan. 



Fam. 79. ACANTHACEJE. 



Shrubs or herbs or often undershrubs with opp. exstipulate 

 simple, rarely aromatic leaves, often with slender raised 

 nerves and lineolate with raphides. Leaf scars usually 

 conspicuous. Fls. irregular in beads, spikes, cymes, or 

 panicles, rarely solitary, bracteate and 2-bracteolate, rarely 

 either bracts or bracteoles absent. Corolla lipped or lobes 

 sub-equal. St. 4 or 2 inserted on the corolla-tube ; anths, 

 2- or 1-celled. Disc often large. Ovary superior 2-celled 

 never lobed, usually linear or oblong with 2 or more super- 

 posed ovules in each cell (very rarely 1 only, e.g., Blepharis, 

 or collateral, Thunbergia) Capsule loculicidal. Seeds (exc. in 

 Thunbergia) ceated in the axils of upcurved hard supports 

 (retinacula), often haiiy. Albumen 0. 



I. Calyx inconspicuous annular or 10-15-toothed. 

 Climbers .1. "Htimbergia. 



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