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Sesamum. <CV VEE D 
| XCVII. PEDALINES (STAPF). 553 
Bow ghee slender, 2-3lin. long. Pedicels slender, at first 4 lin 
ve a 9) . . . . . at (3 
ae wee 2 lin. long, whitish-hairy, 2-bracteolate at the base ; 
4 2 8 es. filiform. Calyx 2-2} lin. long, hairy; segments lanceolate. 
oo e purple, sparsely hairy, obliquely campanulate, 7-8 lin. long ; 
obes very short, subequal. Capsules 6-9 lin. long, 23 lin. broad, 
su beaked, apiculate, covered with long white hairs. Seeds 1} lin. 
ong, faces radially rugose, sides pitted, one margin acute, the other 
rounded off. 
bea Central. Congo Free State: Mbanza, near Businga, 1300 ft., Thonner, 
A oe Wildeman and Durand described and figured (l.c. 37, t. 15) another species as 
s Lonneri, which they say was collected together with S. mombanzense and sent 
: Has under the same number. They further add that they originally referred it 
is . same species, but finally separated it on account of the anther-cells of the 
th er pair of stamens being divergent, instead of parallel, and dehiscing with a short 
a ae descriptions and figures of the two species agree, however, to such an 
en that I cannot help thinking that the difference in the anthers must be due to 
some anomaly in their development. 
a = S. antirrhinoides, ‘Welw. ex Aschers. in Verhandl. Bot. Ver. 
_teeies xxx. 183. Stems erect, branched, up to 3 ft. high, sparingly 
Haan ed, like the whole plant softly glandular-hairy, terete below, 
a bscurely quadrangular above, internodes rarely over 1} in. long. 
eaves lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, subobtuse or apiculate, cuneate 
_ the base, entire or obscurely repand, 1-2 in. long, 2-6 lin. broad, 
am green, at length glabrescent, with very few sessile glands among 
Be hairs ; petiole very slender, up to 4 in. long, upper very short. 
. edicels very short, in fruit 2 lin. long; nectaries stipitate. Calyx 
2 lin. long, linear-lanceclate. Corolla tubular-campanulate, rose-violet 
or purple, about 1 in. long; throat 3-4 lin. wide ; limb } in. in diam. ; 
lowest lobe 3 lin. long and broad, suborbicular, apiculate. Capsule 
4—1 in. long, rounded-quadrangular, deeply 4-sulcate, hairy, beak 
acuminate. Seeds 14 lin. long, very strongly compressed, margins 
narrowly winged, faces finely granular.—Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. 
i. 798.  Volkameria antirrhinodes, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. ii. 482. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Mossamedes ; banks of the River Bero, Welwitsch, 
1648! near Giraul, Welwitsch, 1655. 
Aschers. in Verhandl. Bot. Ver. Brandenb. 
d, terete or obscurely tetragonous, 
andular-villous, whitish or straw- 
e to linear, subacute or mucronulate, 
long and 4 lin. broad, those of the 
glaucous, attenuated into the 
largest leaves, and very short 
6. S. schinzianum, 
xxx. 182. Stem slender, branche 
like the whole plant densely gl 
coloured. Leaves oblong-lanceolat 
those of the main stem up to 1{ in. 
branches much shorter and narrower, 
petiole, which is up to 9 lin. long in the 
inthe smaller. Pedicels 2 (in fruit up to 3) lin. long ; nectaries stipitate. 
Calyx 14 lin. long; segments lanceolate. Corolla pale rose-coloured, 
1-1} in. long, very gibbous above the base. Capsule 9-12 lin. long, 2 
lin. broad, beak drawn out into a slender villous acumen. Seeds 1 lin. 
