d40 XCVII, PEDALINE& (STAPF). 
** Spinous shrubs or small trees. Flowers in the axils 
of much reduced bracts in terminal and sub- 
terminal few-flowered racemes. 
Corolla-tube cylindric, very slightly curved, 
spurred : : : = : : . 11. SESAMOTHAMNTS, 
Corolla-tube sigmatoid, spurless . ~ 5 - 12. SIGMATOSIPHON. 
1. PEDALIUM, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 1056. 
Calyx small, 5-partite. Corolla-tube funnel-shaped, gradually 
widened from a slender base; limb spreading, obscurely 2-lipped ; 
lobes orbicular, subequal. Anther-cells ovate, pendulous from the 
apex of the connective, dehiscing longitudinally. Disc small, equal. 
Ovary 2-celled ; cells undivided ; ovules 2 in each cell, from above the 
middle of the septum. Fruit indehiscent, hard, quadrangular, with or 
without conical spreading spines at the base of the angles. Seeds 1-2 
in each cell, pendulous ; testa delicately punctate.— Annual succulent 
herbs. Leaves entire or coarsely dentate. Flowers yellow, solitary in 
the axils of the leaves. 
Species 2, 1 also in South India and Madagascar. 
Fruit with a conic spreading spine at the base of each 
angle. : : A A lle 
O. 
: : : = Murer. 
Fruit spineless, with tubercles on the faces . ° 
PR 
P. busseanum. 
1. P. Murex, Linn. Syst. ed. x. 1123. Stem simple or branched, 
from a few inches to more than a foot high, like the whole plant more 
or less glandular. Leaves elliptic or obovate, obtuse with a usually 
acute base, coarsely and irregularly toothed, 1-2 in. long, 3-14 in. 
broad ; petiole up to 1 in. long. Pedicels slender, about 14 lin. long. 
Calyx 1 lin. long; segments lanceolate-triangular, acute. Corolla 
yellow, 1 in. long or more; limb 7—9 lin. across ; lobes 24—3 lin. across. 
Fruit pyramidal, abruptly contracted into a short hollow terete base 
with 1 spine at the base of each angle, and small tubercles or raised 
lines on the faces, }—3 in. long.— Gaertn. Carp. t. 58; DC. Prodr. ix. 256 ; 
Wight, Icon. t. 1615 ; Decne in Ann. Se. Nat. 5™ sér. iii. 330; Schweinf. 
Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 97 ; Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. B. 156, C. 364. P. muri- 
catum, Salisb. Prodr. 104. P. microcarpum, Decne, 1. ¢. 332. Rogeriu 
microcarpa, Klotzsch in Peters, Reise Mosamb. Bot. 190. 
Nile Land. Eritrea: Shoho; Wadi Togodele, Ehrenberg ! Mount Ghedem 
near Massaua, 500-1000 ft., Schweinfurth & Riva, 200! British East Africa : 
Witu, Thomas, 168 ! Nyika Country, near Mombasa, Wakefield ! 
Mozamb. Dist. Zanzibar, Hildebrandt, 989! German East Africa, 
oe / Portuguese East Africa: Mozambique, Forbes! Kirk! near Sena, 
eters. 
Also in India and Madagascar. The leaves are eaten as a vegetable. 
2. P. busseanum, Stapf. Stem branched below (including the 
branches) 8—-12in. high, Leavesobovat e-spathulate to oblanceolate, obtuse 
or subobtuse, attenuated into a petiole (up to 4 lin. long), 14-1} in. long, 
