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MARTYNIA lutea. 
Yellow Martynia. 
-DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Nat. ord. Pepatine. R. Br. prodr. nov. Holl. 1.319. (Bignoniarum 
sect. IH. Juss. s. Sesamearum Kunth, pars.) 
MARTYNIA J..—Calyz pentaphyllus ineequalis. Corolla ventricosa: - 
limbo 5-lobo subzequali. #ilamentum quintum sterile. Ovarium unilo- 
culare; placentis duabus parietalibus bilobis oligospermis. Stigma bilobum.. 
Capsula lignosa birostris, apice bivalvis, pseudo 4-locularis, seminibus 
pendulis. osig 
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M. lutea; foliis cordato-orbiculatis dentatis cum caule glanduloso pubescen- 
tibus, rostris pericarpio multd longioribus. é 
Caulis annua, 1} pedalis, pallidus, teres, undique pilis glandulosis, bre- 
vibus, confertissimis diaphanis viscosus. Folia opposita, longé petiolata, 
patentia, horizontalia; orbiculata, basi cordata, lobis imbricatis, obtusa, den- 
ticulata, mollia, ylanduloso-pubescentia, 5-7-nervia ; petiohs teretibus, glan- 
duloso-pubescentibus, versits apicem attenuatis, folio longioribus. Racemus 
terminalis, erectus, pauciflorus, confertus, Joliis viz altior, Flores undique 
glanduloso-pilost. -Pedicelli erecti, basi bracted decidud, lineari, pallidd 
suffulti. Calyx-magnus, pallidus, bracteis dudbus conformibus concoloribus 
_ oblongis lateralibus involucratus, 5-phyllus ; sepalis exterioribus oblongis 
plants, lateralibus majoribus 4-dimidiatis, interioribus lineart lanceolatis 
obtusis pauld brevioribus. Corolla magna infundibularis, extis piloso-glan- 
dulosa viridi-lutea, intds glabra aurantiaca, tubo constricto, fauce ventricosd. 
obliqud intis sanguineo pulcherrimé punctatd, limbo patente 5-partito, lobis 
rotundatis subimbricatis: sinubus protrusis; duobus supertoribus minoribus 
bast glandulosis, inferiore multd majore reniformi undulato (sepits ter), 
Stamina 4 didynama rudimento 5‘. ° Filamenta crassa, purpureo fasciata, 
versus parietem superiorem faucis arcuata, tubo breviora. Anthere in 
crucem coheréntes, glabre: connectivo luteo, carnoso, diaphano, subundulato, 
valvulis discretis bilocularibus prominentibus, - Pollen album sphericum 
liberum majusculum, Ovyarium ovatum, dorso carinatum, in stipite brevi 
lutescente annulari insidens, glabrum, 1-loculare, polyspermum, placentis 
dudbus bilobis parietalibus, lobis stigmatis alternis, ovula horizontalia geren- 
tibus. Stylus filiformis rectus glaber. Stigma bilobum lobis magnis foliaceis 
demim recurvis, anteriore majore, utroque uninervi. Capsula lignosa, cym- 
biformes, aculeata, dorso cristata, cristd bipartibili lacerd, apice bicornis : 
cornubus biuncialibus, teretibus, tnermibus, sursim arcuatis ; semi-bivalvis, 
unilocularis, pseudo 4 locularis: placentis’ quatuor lignosis septiformibus 
ulringue parietibus pericarpii appressis. Semina cuique placente 2 v. 3, 
