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XCII. PEDALINEiE. 
didynamous, with a small fifth staminodium, rarely only 2 perfect; anthers 
2-celled, the cells opening longitudinally. Ovary of 2 or rarely 8 or 4 carpels, 
but divided, at least after flowering, into twice as many cells. Ovules in each 
cell either several superposed in a single row or rarely solitary. Style filiform, 
with as many stigmatic lobes as carpels. Fruit dry, hard and indehiseent or 
opening in valves. Seeds with a thin testa. Albumen scanty or none. 
Embryo straight, with a very short radicle. — Herbs. Leaves all or at least the 
lower ones opposite. Flowers solitary in the axils of the floral leaves or bracts, 
the upper ones often forming a terminal raceme, with or without bracteoles. 
A small Order dispersed over the tropical and subtropical regions both of the New and the 
Old World, the only Australian genus extending to the Eastern Archipelago. 
Tribe I. IVIartynieaB. — Anth r-cells divaricate. Ovary 1-cellecl with 2 parietal placentas. 
Capsule woody terminating in 2 curved beaks I.’Martynia. 
Tribe II. Sesameae. — Anthers dorsifixed, cells parallel. Ovary 2-celled or spuriously 
A-celled. 
Capsule oblong, 2-valved. Unarmed 2*Sesamum. 
Tribe III Pretreere. — Anthers dorsifixed, cells parallel. Ovary 1 to 4 cells, often 
spuriously 2 to 8 -celled. 
Fruit hard and indehiseent. Arm"d with conical prickles . ....... 3. Josephinia, 
1. : MARTYNIA, Linn. 
(After John Martyn, F.R.S.) 
Calyx campanulate, segments 5, unequal. Corolla unequally 5-lobed and 
puffed out below. Stamens 2, the front ones perfect or 4 and didynamous ; 
staminodia 3 or 1. Capsule woody, terminating in 2 curved beaks. Herbs, 
clammy pubescent. Leaves opposite or alternate, cordate on long petioles. 
A genus of few species ; natives of the warm regions of America. 
Leaves alternate. Corolla-tube yellowish-white and dotted ; limb pale-violet 
marked with saffron and violet dots and lines 1. M. proboscidea. 
Leaves opposite. 
Corolla-tube white, purple tinged, yellow dotted ; limb pale-red, with a 
purple spot on each lobe 2. M. diandra. 
Corolla oblique, purplish-red ; limb of 4 rounded lobes, the upper ones 
bifid 3. M. fragrans. 
1. IVI. proboscidea (proboscis-like), Glo.v. Obs. iii. Unicorn plant. A 
coarse heavy-scented annual about 2ft. high. Leaves cordate, roundish, often 
oblique, entire or obscurely undulate-lobed, 4 or more inches in diameter. 
Flowers in terminal racemes. Pedicels long. Bracts oblong-linear. Corolla 
li to 2in. long, dull white, spotted within with some yellow or purple, also 
varying to light-yellow. Endocarp crested on the posterior suture only. — Bot. 
Mag. t. 1056. 
Hab.: Warwick ; naturalised. Native country, Mexico. The stigmatic lobes of the flower 
said to close when touched. 
2. ]YC. diandra (2 fertile stamens), Glox. Obs, 14, t. 1. Tiger-claw or 
Devil’s-claw. An annual with stout erect finely glandulose-pilose stems 2 to 
3ft. high. Leaves opposite, villous and viscid, round, cordate, more or less 
repand. Flowers in short-axillary or terminal racemes or singly. Calyx-teeth 
ovate-lanceolate, subtended by 2 large foliaceous bracts. Corolla 1| to 2in. long, 
whitish ; lobes 5, roundish, with yellow and purple blotches. Stamens 2, fertile, 
Capsule obliquely half-elliptical, rugose, coriaceous, with 2 short incurved sharp 
beaks dehiscing longitudinally by 2 valves, each bearing 4 thick ribs. 
Ilab.: Tropics of America, but now over run many tropical and semi-tropical countries, 
Specimen received from Woothakata as a noxious weed.; 
