792 BENGAL PLANTS. [Sesamum. 
1497. eR inpicum DC.; F. B. I. iv. 887. S. orientale 
iii. 100. 
a all the provinces, cultivated for its oily seed 
A herb, 1-2 feet high. Vernac. Gingli, til, rasa (Orseaat 
The Gingelly or Sesamé. 
Order XCYIII. ACANTHACEX, 
Herbs or shrubs, rarely trees. Leaves opposite, almost always 
entire, occasionally ee lobed; stipules 0. lowers her- 
aie e, almost always irregular, in cymes, racemes, or spikes, 
rarely solitary; bracts large or small, occasionally 0; bracteoles 
usually 2, sometimes 4 under the individual flowers, free or con- 
nate in an epicalyx. Sepals 5 or 4, the upper abortive, free or 
connate below; rarely connate, multifid. Petals 5, connate in a 
2-lipped, less often subequally 5-lobed corolla ; lobes imbricate or 
oe in bud. Stamens 4 or 2, adnate to corolla-tube ; anthers 
2- or 1-celled; cells so es remote. Disk often conspicuous. 
pies 2, connate in a Prides 2-celled ovary; ovules 1 or more 
in each cell, if more than one, 1-seriate or 2-seriate, anatropous ; 
style simple, filiform or thickened below; stigma usually 2-lobed, 
lobes sometimes unequal. /rwit a loculicidal Eines: the valves 
wk tiga atin the se a splitting, the seeds borne on 
ach half. usually hard, attached to recurved, subacute 
<a. Paced ovoid or Mecca smooth or rugose 
rarely hispid ; albumen 0 or (rarely) scanty. 
Climbers ;- calyx minute, annular or 10-15-toothed ; bracteoles large, 
subconnate as a spathaceous epicalyx; corolla-lobes twisted in bud; 
ovules 2, collateral in each cell; capsule beaked; seeds not supposes on 
retinacula bergia. 
Erect or prostrate, not climbing ; calyx distinct ; saan not glee 
nate; if stems twining (Acanthus volubilis) ovules more than 2 in each 
1 :— 
*Seeds not supported on retinacula; ovules many in each cell :— 
p-. 793] 
tOvules superposed in 2 rows in each cell; corolla-lobes imbricate, 
the upper lip or two upper lobes outermost in bud; none of the 
leaves pinnately cut: - 198 
tCalyx sas ; stamens 2:—{p. 793] 
Bracts rigid; peduncle of spike covered with nape EES scales 
