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CLXIX. SESAMES. 



and spathaceous (Craniolaria). COROLLA monopetalous, hypogynous ; tube cylindric 

 or gibbous ; throat swollen ; limb usually bilabiate, 5-lobed, aestivation imbricate or 

 sub-valvate. STAMENS 5, inserted on the corolla- tube, the upper sterile, the other 

 4 fertile, didynamous, sometimes the 2 shortest sterile, and the fifth rudimentary 

 (Martynia) ; anther-cells 2, equal, parallel or divergent, connective jointed on to the 

 filament and prolonged upwards as a glandular appendage. OVAEY superior, base 

 girt with a glandular disk, 2- 4- or 1- celled by arrest of the septa ; style terminal, 

 simple ; stigma bilamellate ; ovules anatropous. CAPSULE or DRUPE often with an 

 angular and coriaceous epicarp. SEEDS generally pendulous ; albumen absent, or 

 nearly so. EMBRYO straight ; cotyledons plane or plano-convex ; radicle superior, 

 inferior, or centripetal. 



Setamum. 

 Ovary cut transversely (mag.). 



Seiamum. 

 Seed cut transversely (mag.) 



Craniolaria fragrant. 

 Calyx and pistil. 



Sesamiim. 

 Fruit (mag.). 



