Martynia.] 
XCII. PEDALINE^. 
1139 
3. ]VE, fragrans (fragrant), Lindl. Bot. Beg. (1840). A plant 1 to 3ft. 
high, clothed wish glandular hairs. Stems terete, erect, flexuous. Leaves 
usually opposite, petiolate, cordate in outline, 3-lobecl ; lobes rounded, angulate- 
sinnate, the middle one the longest. Racemes terminal ; flowers large and 
fragrant. Pedicels as long as the flowers. Calyx large, inflated, plaited, or 
striated ; teeth short, furnished at the base with 2 appressed fleshy bracts. 
Corolla scarcely longer than the calyx ; mouth oblique ; limb of 4 rounded 
spreading lobes, the upper bifid. Colour purplish-red, with yellow in the throat. 
Stamens 5, and with the style included. Capsule curved upwards, wrinkled, 
crested above, terminating in 2 incurved beaks, much longer than the capsule 
and hooked at the end. — Bot. Mag. t. 4292. 
A Mexican plant now become naturalised, and a noxious weed to the sheep farmers, but 
fortunately does not spread at a rapid rate. 
2. *SESAMUM, Linn. 
(An Egytian name of one species.) 
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 
4-celled. Seeds numerous, obliquely oblong. Erect or prostrate herbs. Leaves 
opposite, upper alternate, entire-toothed, lobed or divided. Flowers axillary, 
solitary, or few and fascicled, on short pedicels, pale or purplish, sometimes 
yellow-marked. 
The species are not many and belong to India and tropical or southern Africa. 
1. S. indicum (Indian), DC. Prod. ix. 250; C. B. Clarke in Hook. FI. 
Brit. Tnd. iv. 387. An erect plant about 2ft. high, pubescent or puberulous. 
Leaves oblong or ovate, the lower ones often pedatisect, 3 to 5in. long, variable 
on the same plant ; petiole \ to 2in. long. Pedicels short, solitary, rarely 2 to 
3- nate. Sepals 3 lines long, lanceolate. Corolla ljin., pubescent, whitish or 
with red-purplish or yellow marks. Capsule 4-angled, oblong, about lin. long, 
3 lines broad ; erect, scabrid-pilose, usually shortly pointed, 2-valved half-way 
down or to the base, or ultimately 4-valved. Seeds brown, smooth. — Wight, 
III. t. 163 ; Bot. Mag. t. 1688; S. orientalis, Linn., gaertn. Fruct. ii. 132, t. 
110 ; Rheede Hort. Mai. ix. tt. 54, 55 ; Rumph Herb. Amboin. t. 76, fig. 1. 
Hab.: Cultivated in most hot countries ; probably of Asiatic origin. It has long been 
cultivated in hot countries for the oil obtained from its seeds — known as “ Til or Gingelly 
Oil.” Naturalised in many localities. 
3. JOSEPHINIA, Vent. 
(After the Empress Josephine.) 
Calyx divided to the base into 5 segments. Corolla tubular, the lobes 
spreading, short, the lowest rather larger than the others. Stamens didy- 
namous, included in the tube ; anther-cells parallel, the connectivum usually 
tipped with a small gland. Ovary of 4, 6, or 8 cells, each with 1 erect ovule ; 
stigmatic lobes, 2, 3, or 4. Fruit hard and indehiscent, armed with comical 
prickles, shortly or not at all beaked. Seeds 1 in. each cell, oblong, erect. — 
Herbs with the habit of Sesamum. Leaves opposite, entire, toothed, or divided. 
Flowers in the upper axils on short pedicels without bracteoles. 
The genus extends into the Archipelago. The two Australian species are endemic. The 
solitary erect ovules 'and seeds connect this genus with Verbenaccce, but the habit of the corollas 
are those of Pedalinecc.—Benth. 
Leaves glabrous or nearly so, quite entire. Ovary usually 8-celled. Fruit 
with a small terete or conical beak • ■ • J. grandtflora. 
Plant densely villous. Lower leaves divided into 3 distinct segments. Ovary 
usually 4-celled. Fruit not beaked 2. J. Eugenia. 
