d44 XCVII. PEDALINE® (STAPF). [ Pterodiscus. 
long, half as broad ; segments lanceolate, acute, up to } in. long, 3-1} 
lin. broad. Corolla yellow, about 1} in. long, trumpet-shaped, ex- 
ternally densely glandular-mealy. Fruit up to 17 in. long, with wings 
2 lin. broad. 
Wile Land. Somaliland: Abdallah, Ke//er, 114; Tuju Steppe, Keller, 
115. 
6. P. somaliensis, Baker. Stem eglandular. Leaves obovate- 
deltoid, obtuse, subentire, 2-3 in. long, 14-2 in. broad, more or less mealy- 
glandular when young, soon glabrescent; petiole up to 2 lin. long. 
Flowers solitary in the axils of the leaves; pedicels slender, 2-3 lin. 
long. Calyx nearly 2 lin. long; segments lanceolate-subulate. Corolla 
orange-coloured with a purple blotch in the throat, funnel-shaped, 
symmetric, gradually widened from the base, 2 in. long; tube 2 lin. 
wide at the middle, over } in. at the mouth, hairy within, almost villous 
in the throat ; lobes 4 lin. long and broad. Disc small, equal or nearly 
so. Filaments hairy at the base, the longer 44 lin. long. Ovary laterally 
compressed, 4-angular. Ovules up to 12 in each cell, 2-seriate.— 
Pedalium sp., Oliver in James, Unknown Horn of Africa, 321. 
Nile Land. Somaliland: Harradigit, James § Thrupp ! 
7. P. Ruspolii, Hngl.in Ann. [stit. Bot. Roma, vii. 31. Rootstock 
pale brown, 4—6 in. long. Stems several, ascending from the base, 
glabrous. Leaves opposite, fleshy, spathulate, obtuse, quite entire, 
narrowed from the middle to the petiole, clothed, especially beneath, 
with pale grey glands, the upper 24 in. long, 10-12 lin. broad, the lower 
smaller. Flowers solitary in the axils of the upper leaves ; pedicels jin. 
long. Calyx-tube short ; lobes linear-lanceolate, very acute, 1 lin. long. 
Corolla-tube funnel-shaped, nearly 1 in. long, violet, with white hairs at 
the middle; limb orange, half as long as the tube ; lobes obovate, 5 lin. 
long and broad.— Engl. Jahrb. xxxii. 112. 
Nile Land. Somaliland: near the River Daua, at Hame, Riva, 1657, and at 
Sole, Riva, 1101. 
8. P. Wellbyi, Stapf. Persistent base of the stem cylindric or 
clavate, 2-3 in. long, 3-4 lin. thick, bark papery, peeling off; shoots 
few, 2-+in. long, glaucous and granulav-glandular like the whole plant. 
Leaves broad-elliptic, obtuse, shortly cuneate to almost truncate at the 
base, 1-1} in. long, 8-10 lin. broad, subentire or remotely repand, 
undulated, sparingly glandular above ; petioles up to 6 lin. long. Pedicels 
almost 3 lin. long. Calyx $-1 lin. long; segments lanceolate. Corolla 
orange coloured, streaked with purple in the throat; tube slender, 
gibbous at the base, otherwise almost symmetric, 1 in. long, 14-2 lin. 
wide at the middle, and over 6 lin. at the mouth, villous in the throat ; 
limb 10 lin. across; lobes about 3 lin. long. Long filaments 5 lin. long, 
hairy all along, short filaments bearded at the base. Ovules 2-seriate, 
about 5 in each row. Fruit unknown. 
Nile Land. Uganda: by the Turkwel River, West of Lake Rudolf, 
Wellby ! 
