Gelsemium.] PEDALINER. 249 
several superposed ovules in a single or several rows, or rarely soli- 
ry in each cell; style filiform, with as many stigmatic lobes as 
carpels or undivided. Fruit dry, hard and indehiscent, or opening in 
valves. Testa thin, often of elegant structure. Albumen scanty or 
none, rarely copious.—Herbs or shrubs, rarely trees, with opposite, 
entire, lobed or digitate leaves. Flowers solitary in the axils of the . 
leaves or bracts, or in terminal racemes. Bractlets. present or not. 
A small order of which only 3 species occur in Burma. 
(Sesamum Indicum) is largely cultivated for its oil-yielding seeds. 
Seeds winged. 
Stamens 5; calyx-lobes free to the base . . . Gelsemium. 
Stamens 4, didynamous; calyx gamosepalous . : . - Brandisia, 
* * Seeds not winged ° : ° . . Buddleia. 
GELSEMIUM, Juss. 
2-seriate ovules along the ventral placentas ; style filiform ; stigmas 
Flowers in axillary cymes or terminal panicles. 
numerous, minutely tubercled, the wings broad and lacerate-lobed. — 
Has.—Ava, Kakhyen hills.—Fr. March. 
BRANDISIA, Hf. & Th.. 
_ Calyx bell-shaped, 5-ribbed, almost equally 5- (7-) -toothed. 
Corolla 2-lipped-funnel-shaped, the upper outer lip large, almost 
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