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CLXIX. SESAMES. 



and spathaceous {Craniolaria). Corolla monopetalous, liypogynous ; tube cylindric 

 or gibbous ; throat swollen ; limb usually bilabiate, 5-lobed, aestivation imbricate or 

 sub-valvate. Stamens 5, inserted on tbe corolla-tube, the upper sterile, tbe other 

 4 fertUe, didynamous, sometimes the 2 shortest sterile, and the fifth rudimentary 

 (Martynia) ; anther-cells 2, equal, parallel or divergent, connective jointed on to the 

 filament and prolonged upwards as a glandular appendage. Ovabt superior, base 

 girt with a glandular disk, 2- 4- or 1- celled by arrest of the septa ; style terminal, 

 simple ; stigma bilamellate ; ovules anatropous. CAPStrLE or dktjpe often with an 

 angular and coriaceous epicarp. Seeds generally pendulous ; ■ albumen absent, or 

 nearly so. EmbeTO straight; cotyledons plane or plano-convex; radicle superior, 

 inferior, or centripetal. 



Pruit (mag.)- 



