Sesamum. | XCVII, PEDALINE#® (STAPF). ddd 
side, very oblique, veins distinct except in the narrowest leaves, 
Pedicels in flower 4-1 (at length 2) lin. long, minutely 2-bracteolate ; 
nectaries subsessile. Calyx 2 lin. long, whitish glaucous or grey, 
minutely pubescent; segments linear-lanceolate, acuminate. Corolla 
pale rose-colour, obliquely campanulate, about 1} in. long, tinely 
pubescent ; lowest lobe broad-ovate, rounded, 3 lin. long and broad. 
Capsule shortly rostrate, 7—8 lin. long, 2 lin. broad, obtusely quad- 
rangular, 4-suleate ; beak 1 lin. long, rather broad and often obtuse. 
Seeds 1 lin. long, margins very acute, faces faintly rugose, sides broad, 
transversely rugulose.—/S. angustifolium, Engl. in Baum, Kunene- 
Samb. Exped. 371. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Mossamedes ; in sand by the Cunene River between 
Kiteve and Humbe, 3600 ft., Baum, 959! 
Very similar to S, angustifolium, but differing in the finer indumentum, the 
shorter and comparatively broader capsules with a short, broad beak and the larger, 
less rugose seeds. 
Stem 
arrested 
usely 
9. S. calycinum, Welw. in Trans. Linn. Soc, xxvil. 92. 
2-3 ft. high, erect, simple or sparingly branched upwards, with 
branchlets forming small tufts of leaves in the lower leaf-axils, obt 
quadrangular, sparingly rufo-subhirsute or pubescent and mealy-glan- 
dular. Leaves subsessile, lanceolate to linear, obtuse to acute at the 
apex, cuneate at the base, 24-1 in. long, 6-2 lin. wide, entire, rarely 
with 1-2 irregular teeth, finely hirsute above and on the nerves below, 
at length more or less glabrescent, glaucous from sessile glands below, 
at least when young; nerves rather prominent below, 4-5 on each 
side, very oblique, transverse veins distinct. Pedicels 14-2 (at length 
over 2) lin. long, ebracteolate ; nectaries sessile. Calyx 3-3} lin. long, 
pubescent and mealy-glandular; segments subulate-lanceolate, finely 
acuminate. Corolla rose-coloured, obliquely campanulate, 1-1 $ in. 
long, rufo-pubescent ; lowest lobe orbicular, subapiculate, } in. in diam. 
Capsule acuminate-rostrate, almost 1 in. long, 2 lin. wide, pubescent, 
4-suleate, obtusely quadrangular. Seeds not quite 1 lin. long, margins 
acute, faces like the broad sides finely or quite obscurely rugose.— Hiern 
in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 797 (excl. Oliver's syn.). 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Pungo Andongo; in dry sandy thickets between 
Caghuy and Sansamanda, Welwitsch, 1644! 
Mozamb. Dist. Mashonaland: Six Mile Spruit, near Salisbury, 
Evelyn Cecil, 142! 
1 find the nectaries to be s 
De Wildeman and Durand (Relig. Dewéevr. 
Upper Cong», at Kasongo, where Dewévre 
corolla as violet with a white tube and a yellow, 
the natives on the shore of Lake Tanganyika eat it. 
Hon. Mrs. 
essile, not ‘ evidently stipitate,” as Welwitsch says. 
173) indicate this species also from the 
(919) collected it, who describes the 
Violet-streaked lip, and states that 
10. S. angolense, Welw. Apont. Phyto-Geogr. 588, and in Trans. 
Linn. Soc. xxvii. 51. Stem erect, 3-8 ft. high, subterete or obtusely 
young, then 
quadrangular and _ sulcate, sparingly pubescent when | 
glabrescent, simple or more or less branched above. Leaves very 
