FIGWORT FAMILY. 99% 
young state—before it before it becomes hard and woody—is used for 
making pickles. 
4. SE’SAMUM, L. Ben 
5-parted, the upper lobe smallest. Tube. of olla large, limb 
oan somewhat bilabiate ; upper lobe nt oF in slightly 3-fid. 
Stamens 4, didynamous, with the rudiment apsule oblong, 
obtusely 4-angled, 4-grooved, 2-celled, 2-valved, v recurved. 
numerous. Annual herbs with the upper rath, often alternate-solitary 
ry flowers 
s. if picum, DC. Stem erect pubescent ; leaves ovate-oblong or 
fens late, the lower bag anid capsule mucronate with the persis- 
tent styler velvety pubesc 
Inpian Sesamum. Benne. een 
Stem 4-5 feet high, branching. Leaves petioled, very variable in shape, those near the 
of eee stem often 3-fid. Flowers on short peduncles, reddish white. Pods about an 
inch and a half long, filled with seeds which are white, or in some varieties black on the 
Native of India, cultivated. 
Obs. The Benne plant being a native of India, does not perfect its 
seeds in the subaea stan but only succeeds in those climates in which 
the cotton ae cultivated. "It is said that the plant was intro- 
du ood. The seeds 
as it 1s , wi 
same purposes as as Olive oil, ‘answering for cooking or for burning. The 
lant is cultivated in many warm countries for the sake of the oil. The 
eaves abound in mucilage which they ‘oa ily so aad to water ; one or 
two of them stirred in B bette of water will render it thick and 
repy without affecting i hagas sat cy. The plant is often raised at 
oe 
us d ade th i ch 
bowel cumple of children, though it probably possesses no savas 
ver that made from the bark of the iowa Ehn, or the — 
Orper XLVII. SCROPHULAR’IA’CEH. (Fraworr es a 
Herbs, shru®s or sometimes even trees with alternate, opposite or verticillate leaves with- 
out stipules, a persistent calyz of 4-5 more or less united sepals, and & more, or ls : 
irregular, bilabiate or personate corolla, with the lobes imbricated in the Du . Stamene 
either 4 and di fifth stamen sometimes -pbpearing j a sterile 
filament, or aig rare! pooh agar —or acrieg - orgs nee ae Sar : 
‘ 4 zoel with, the sd lacent# united in the axis. 
