. A general system of botany, descriptive and analytical. In two parts. Part I. Outlines of organography, anatomy, and physiology. Part II. Descriptions and illustrations of the orders. By Emm. Le Maout [and] J. Decaisne. With 5500 figures by L. Steinheil and A. Riocreux. Translated from the original by Mrs. Hooker. The orders arranged after the method followed in the universities and schools of Great Britain, its colonies, America, and India; with additions, an appendix on the natural method, and a synopsis of the orders, by Hooker. Botany. 610 CLXX. MYOPOEINE^. Sesamece are very near Bi
. A general system of botany, descriptive and analytical. In two parts. Part I. Outlines of organography, anatomy, and physiology. Part II. Descriptions and illustrations of the orders. By Emm. Le Maout [and] J. Decaisne. With 5500 figures by L. Steinheil and A. Riocreux. Translated from the original by Mrs. Hooker. The orders arranged after the method followed in the universities and schools of Great Britain, its colonies, America, and India; with additions, an appendix on the natural method, and a synopsis of the orders, by Hooker. Botany. 610 CLXX. MYOPOEINE^. Sesamece are very near Bignoniaoece (which see) ; they are connected with Gesneracets through Craniolaria and Martynia, and are further connected with VerhenacMB and Myoporinece (which see). This family inhabits the tropics of both worlds and South Africa. Few of the species are useful. The seeds of Sesamum orientale and S. indiciim yield a bland oil, used by Orientals as food, medicine, and as a cosmetic, called Sesamum or Gingilie oil. The cultivation of these plants, which was spread for ages over Asia and Africa, now extends to the New World. The importation of Sesamum seeds into France amounted in 1855 to sixty millions of kilogrammes (58,940 tons) ; the oil extracted from them is princi- pally used in the manufacture of soap. Pedalium Murex exhales a strong musky odour, and the thick juice contained in its vesicular glands is employed in India to giro a mucilaginous consistency to water, and thus render it emollient. The Creoles of America eat the raw root of Craniolaria annua with sugar; it is fleshy and mild-tasted, and when dried is employed in preparing a bitter and cooling drink. [The curious 2-horned fruit of Martynia proboscidea is the Testa di Quaglia of the Italians, notorious for its cleaving to clothes, &c.; Uncaria procumbens is the famous Grapple-plant of South Africa, the fruit of which is dispersed by animals to whose fur its hooked horns enable it to cling.] CLXX. MYOPORINE^,
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