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D56 XCVII, PEDALINE® (STAPF). [Sesamum. 
numerous, usually longer than the internodes, linear-oblong to sub- 
lanceolate, rarely elliptic- or ovate-oblong, rounded, subemarginate or 
sometimes acute at the apex, often mucronulate, narrowed at the base, 
entire or subrepand with wavy margins, 2-4 in. long, 4-14 in. broad, 
deep green and sparsely pubescent or almost glabrous above, whitish, 
subtomentose and mealy-glandular below, rather firm, nervation im- 
pressed above, slightly raised below ; petioles very short or hardly any ; 
upper leaves passing into the similar foliaceous lower bracts. Upper 
bracts linear, very narrow, acuminate, rapidly decreasing in size. 
Pedicels very short, at length up to 8 lin. long, 2-bracteolate at the 
base; nectaries sessile. Calyx 4 to over } in. long, pubescent ; seg- 
ments lanceolate, subulate-acuminate. Corolla brilliant violet-purple, 
2 to over 2} in. long, obliquely campanulate, more or less pubescent ; 
throat up to 1 in. wide; lowest lobe suborbicular, up to lin. in diam. 
Capsule 10-12 lin. long, 2-21 lin. broad, obtusely quadrangular and 
4-sulcate, finely pubescent or glabrescent, beak short, broad. Seeds 
blackish, 1-14 lin. long, margins acute, faces radially rugose, sides 
pitted.—Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 797; Engl. Pal. Ost-Afr. C. 
365, and Bot. Jahrb. xix. 158, and xxviii. 483; Dur. & Schinz, 
Etudes Fl. Congo, i. 215 ; De Wild. & Durand, Relig. Dewevr. 178. 
S. macranthum, Oliver in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix, 131, t. 84 ; Engl. Pil. 
Ost-Afr. A, 64; var. angustifolium, Oliver, l.c. Volkameria angolensis, 
O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. ii. 482. 
Nile Land. Uganda: Budda District ; Dumu, 5000 ft., Dawe, 5! 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Pungo Andongo; various places, Welwitsch, 
1645! Malange, Mechow, 411; Pogge, 297. 
South Central. Congo Free State: Goia Kapopa, near the Lualaba River, 
Pogge, 998; Lulua River, Pogge, 299 ; Kasongo, Dewevre, 991. i 
Mozamb. Dist. (German East Africa: Urundi, Scott-Elliot, 8250! Itolio, 
Stuhlmann, 924; between Kagehi and Utunda, Stuhlmann, 3480; Usui, Speke s 
Grant, 204! Usaramo ; Muhonyera, Speke & Grant! Khutu Steppe, 1700 ft. 
Goetze ! and without precise locality, Hannington ! British Central Africa : Urungu ; 
Fwambo, 5250 ft., Nutt! Carson, 71! Nyasaland ; Fort Hill, Johnston ! Masuka 
Plateau, 6500-7000 ft., Whyte! Uvera, Kenyon, 19! Angoniland, Purves, 57! 
near Blantyre, Last! near Zomba, Purves, 163! near Sani Hill, Kirk! Shire 
Highlands, Buchanan, 338! 705! 
11. S. rigidum, Peyritsch in Wawra &: Peyritsch, Sert. Benguel. 32 
(Sitz. Ber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Math. Nat. Cl. xxxviii. 1859, 572). Stem 
erect, 3-4 ft. high, stiff, branched from the base, terete, slender, like 
the whole plant finely and spreadingly pubescent with few glands among 
the hairs, at length glabrescent below ; branches long, rigid. Leaves 
oblong-lanceolate or lanceclate to linear, rounded or subretuse at the 
apex, cuneate at the base, quite entire, lower up to 1} in. long and } 12. 
broad, upper much shorter and narrower, pale below ; petiole 2-} lin. 
long. Bracts spathulate-linear, 4-3 lin. long. Pedicels slender, 14—+ lin. 
(in the fruiting state up to 8 lin.) long, minutely 2-bracteolate at the 
base. Calyx 24-3 lin. long; segments linear. Corolla pale rose, punc- 
tate in the throat, 7-10 lin. long ; lowest lobe 4-5 lin. long and broad, 
whitish. Capsule ovate-oblong (or subglobose according to Peyritsch), 
