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PLATE DLXXV.
M A R T Y N I A DIANDRA.
Dìandì'ous Martynìa.
CLASS XIV. ORDER IL
DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. Two Chives longer. Seeds covered.
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.
CALYX 5-fidus. Corolla ringens. Capsula lignosa,
corticata^ rostro haniata^ 4-IoculariSj
4-valvis.
CALYX five-cleft. Corolla gaping. Capsule woody,
covered, with a hooked beakj 4 divisions,,
and 4 openings.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
MARTYNIA caule ramoso, foliis oppositis, cordatis,
dentatis, floribus diandris. Willd. Sp.
PI.
MAKTYNIA with the stem branching, leaves opposite,
heart-shaped, and toothed^ and flowers
diandrous.
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REFERENCE TO THE PLATE,
1. The empalement.
2. The chives.
3. Seed-bud and pointal.
4. The capsule.
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WE are glad to have an opportunity of giving a figure of a plant so very ornamental, and so rarely met
with in our collections. Martynia diandra is a native of Mexico about Vera Cruz, and requires to be
kept in the hothouse, or a glass frame with artificial heat, and has much the same delicate texture as
the Martynia proboscidea. Of the figures that have before been published of it, that of Jacquin in his
Hortus Schcenbrunnensis, vol. iii. plate 289, is by far the best. A specimen was communicated by
A. B. Lambert, esq., in November 1808, and another in May last from a plant which had outlived the
winter, and from which the present figure is taken. All the species of Martynia are considered as
annuals.
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