386 evil. BiGNONiACB*. (C. B. Clarke.) [^AmpMeome. 



W. HlMAtATA, alt. 2-9000 ft., from Kashmir to Nepal ; Wallieh, Blinkworth, 

 &c. — DiSTBlB. Cabul ? 



Glabrous. Macemes not rarely 2-3, eubpanicled. Flowers often not larger than 

 those of A. arguia, — This species is very near A, arguta : the Afifghanistan examples 

 referred to A. emodi are all hairy. 



Ordbb CVIII. FXSDAZiXNEH:. (By 0. B. Clarke.) 



Herbs or tindershrubs. Leaves opposite, or the upper alternate, entire 

 toothed or divided. Flowefs irregular, (in the Old- World species) axillary, 

 solitary or rarely clustered ; pedicels short ; bracts or very small. Calyx 

 deeply 4-5-lobed. Corolla tubular- ventricose ; limb obscurely 2-lipped ; 

 lobes 5, imbricate. Stamens 4, didynamous ; rarely 2. Ovary 2- (sometimes 

 1-) celled; style filiform, stigma shortly 2;lobed; ovules few or many, 

 superposed. Capsule 2- or 3-4-oelled, iudehiscent or dehiscent. Seeds (in 

 the Indian species) wingless, exalbuminous. — Species 40, in the warmer 

 parts of both hemispheres. 



The Indian species are readily distinguished from SignoniaceiB by their herbaceous 

 habit and wingless seeds, and from most Scrophularinece by their few or 1-seriate 

 seeds. 



Martynia diandra, Glox. (DC. Prodr. ix. 253), an American weed (called Tiger- 

 claw or Devil's-claw), is now common in the Gangetic Plain and elsewhere in India; 

 it is a ranli: coarse herb with capsules beaked by strong curved spines. 



Capsule spinous, indehisccnt. Seeds 2-1 in each cell ....;!. Pedalixjm:. 

 Capsule spineless, 2-4-valved. Seeds many in each cell . . . 2. Sesamttm. 



I. THOAImIVTIL, Linn. 



A glabrous annual. Leaves opposite or alternate, petioled, ovate, 

 incised. Pedicels axillary, solitary, short, 2-glandular at the base. Calyx 

 small, 5-partite. Corolla yellow ; lobes round, patent. Stamens 4, didyna- 

 mous, included ; anther -cells ovate, parallel, separate, pendulous. Ovary 

 2-celled ; ovules 2 in each cell. Capsule hard, indehiseeut, upper portion 

 pyramidal-ovoid with 4 patent spines from its base. Seeds 2-1 in each 

 cell, pendulous, oblong, testa black. 



P. Itturex, i««M. ; DC. Prodr. ix. 256; Burm. FL Ind. 139, t. 43, 

 fig. 2; Gaertn. Fruct. i. 276, t. 58; Lamh. III. t. 538; Roxh. Fl. 

 J«i. iii. 114; Wall. Car!. 6410; Wight Ic. t. 1615; Dalz. Sf GUbs. Bimh. 

 Fl. 162. 



Decoait Pbuihsuia and Ceylon, frequent.— Disteib. Trop. Africa. 



A weedy herb, 6-15 in. Leaves 2-4 in., irregularly toothed or almost lobed; 

 petiole i-li in. Pedicels ^ m. Calyx J in.j teeth linear. Corolla 1 in., funnel- 

 shaped, glabrous. Fruit | by J in, 



II. SESAItXTTin:, Linn. 



Erect or prostrate herbs. Leaves opposite, upper alternate, entire 

 toothed lobed or -divided. Flowers axillary, solitary, or few and fascicled, 

 short-pedicelled, pale or purplish, sometimes yellow-marked. Calyx small, 

 5-partite. Corolla tubular-ventricose, base subgibbous ; limb 2-lipped, 

 lobes 5, rounded. Stamens 4, didynamous, included ; anthers sagittate, cells 

 2 subparallel. Ovary 2-celled, early falsely 4-celled, cells many-ovuled. 

 Capsule oblong or ovoid, loculicidally 2-valved, unarmed, in appearance 



