Sesamum.) PEDALINEZ. 791 
*Anther-cells subparallel ; ovary 2-locular and spuriously 4-chambered ; 
_ placentas axial; capsules not hooked; flowers axillary[p.790] Sesamum. 
685, Martynia Linn. 
Coarse herbs; annual or with perennial, tuberous roots ; leaves 
alternate or opposite, pubescent, toothed or lobed. cae rather 
large, in short, terminal rac cemes; bracts small, linear or 0; brac- 
teoles 1 or 2. Sepals 5, connate in a bithcabionn, somewhat 
inflated calyx; limb with subequal lobes; tube sometimes 
"osm split in front. Petals 5, connate in a somewhat 
2-lipped corolla; tube oblique or decurved at the orth lobes sub- 
odual rounded. Stamens 2, anterior only perfect, adnate near 
base of corolla, included; anthers oblong ; cells as stami- 
nodes 8. Disk uniform. Carpels connate in a 1-locular ovary ; 
placentas 2, parietal, intruded, 2-lamellate; ovules many, 1-seriate 
on each lamella; style filiform; stigma 2-lobed. Fruit sub- 
drupaceous, with an ineurved beak ; the fleshy pericarp deciduous, 
<p septicidally ; ; the enlarged, persistent placentas conna 
the endocarp in a hard, rough, spinescent or smooth, 4-celled 
hil Y, with an nae central opening. Seeds many in each cell; 
testa thick, rugos 
1496 Sa tials: DIANDRA Glox.; F. B. I. iv. 8386; E. D. M. 308. 
Chota Nagpur, very common on roadsides and near 
villages. 
A tall, coarse herb. Hind. Sher nti; Beng. Bagh nokt; 
Santal. Bag lucha 
686, Sesamum Linn. 
Erect or prostrate herbs ; leaves opposite below, alternate above, 
entire, toothed, lobed or div ided. Flowers axillary, solitary or 
few and fascicled, shortly Pe a Sepals connate in a small, 
5-partite calyx. Petals 5 5, connate in a 2-lipped corolla ; oe ven- 
tricose ; lobes rounded, those of “the upper lip usually rather 
smaller than the othe Stamens 4, didynamous, included ; 
ers. 
anthers sagittate ; cells subparallel, distinct. Carpels connate in 
a 2-celled ovary; cells soon divided into 2 chambers by the intru- 
sion of a false dissepiment from between the placentas; ovules 
many, 1-seriate in each chamber; style filiform; stigma 2-lobed. 
Fruit an oblong or ovoid capsule, usually 4-angled and 4-grooved, 
loculicidally 2-valved, 4-chambered. Seeds many, obliquely oblong, 
Somewhat compressed, foveolate. 
