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Martynia (John Martyn, 1699-1768. professor of botany at Cambridge, botanical author). Including Proboscidea. Martyniaceae. Coarse annuals and perennials from the warmer parts of America, a few of which are cultivated for pickles or for ornament.

Rank branchy plants of heavy odor, viscid-pubescent, mostly sprawling on the ground: lvs. large, likely to be opposite and alternate on same plant, petioled, broad and subcordate, entire or lobed: fls. large and funnelform-campanulate in short loose terminal racemes; calyx more or less swollen -campanulate, deeply and unequally 5-parted, often split on the anterior side; corolla violet-purple, pale yellow or whitish mottled, oblique, decurved, the limb somewhat bilabiate but the 5 spreading lobes nearly equal; fertile stamens 2 in the genus Martynia as defined by Stapf (Engler & Prantl, Die Pflanzenfamilien, including one species apparently not in cult.), and 4 in the genus or group Proboscidea which is here included in Martynia and to which the cult, species belong; ovary 1-celled, the 2 parietal placenta- extended inward and meeting at the middle as if 2-celled: fr. a 2-valved caps., more or less fleshy, hairy, with a long curving beak; seeds large.—Species about 8, U. S. to S. Amer. The closely allied Craniolaria (which see, in Vol. II) is distinguished by the long slender corolla- tube (Martynia Craniolaria, Glox.=Craniolaria annua). The trade names need revision.

Martynias are sometimes grown in gardens for their bright large flowers, abundant foliage and odd pods. They are treated as half-hardy annuals. They are also grown in the vegetable-garden for the small tender pods which are made into pickles the same as cucumbers. The plants grow 1 ½   feet or more high, and spread widely. They should be started in a hotbed in the North and transplanted to the open. In the middle and southern states seed may be sown in the open 3 feet apart each way where the plants are to remain. They need a warm open soil and sunny exposure. The fruits have a very distinct appearance by reason of the long-curved horn which splits from the top as the capsule hardens.
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*[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
<!--- xxxxx  *Flora: The Gardener's Bible, by Sean Hogan. Global Book Publishing, 2003. ISBN 0881925381  -->
<!--- xxxxx  *American Horticultural Society: A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants, by Christopher Brickell, Judith D. Zuk. 1996. ISBN 0789419432  -->
<!--- xxxxx  *Sunset National Garden Book. Sunset Books, Inc., 1997. ISBN 0376038608  -->

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