DOS XCVIU. PEDALINE (STAPF). [ Sesamum. 
futidum, Afzel. ex Engl. Jahrb. xix. 156. Sesamopteris radiata, DC. 
I.e. 251, excl. syn. Endl. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot, 547! Sierra Leone: Sherboro, 
Scolt-Elliot, 5897! and without precise locality, Afzelius. Liberia: Monrovia, 
Naumann, 54. Bassa, Vogel! Togo: Bismarckburg, Kling, 16, 44; Dahomey, Burton / 
Lagos! Abeokuta, Irving ! Rowland ! and without precise locality, Moloney! Phillips, 
48! Punch! Northern Nigeria! Nupe, Barter, 1202! <Asaba, Barter, 292! 
Cross River at Ikuse, Holland, 185! Cameroons: Cameroon River, Mann, 734! 
Mungo, Buchholz ; Yaunde, Zenker, 259! Fernando Po, Vogel, 23! 
Engler quotes this plant also from Jur, Schweinfurth, 2085; German Kast 
Africa, Muansa, Stuhlmann, 4157, 4560 and Zanzibar, Stuhlmann i, 1078. I have 
not seen any specimens from East Africa, It occurs occasionally as a weed in 
various parts of the tropics. Oil is extracted from the seeds according to Zenker ; 
but there is no clear evidence that the plant is cultivated. 
13. S. Marlothii, Lngl. Jahrb. x. 257, t. 7, fig. D. Stem like 
the whole plant densely glandular-hairy, 2-24 lin. thick. Lower leaves 
3-foliolate ; leaflets oblong, the intermediate 12-2 in. long, 1 in. broad ; 
lateral leaflets 5-15 lin. long, 5-7 lin. broad; petioles }-14 in. long; upper 
leaves linear-oblong, about 1 in. long, 2-24 lin. broad, shortly petioled. 
Pedicels at first slender, 14-2 lin. long, at length very stout, up to 3} lin. 
long; nectaries sessile. Calyx 3-34 lin. long; segments linear- 
lanceolate. Corolla obliquely campanulate, over 14 in. long; lobes 
very short. Capsule 1} in. long, 24 lin. broad, densely glandular- 
hairy, beak short, very acute. Seed 1} lin. long, blackish, faces radially 
rugose near the acute margins with a well-defined smooth central area- 
Lower Guinea. German South-west Africa: Hereroland; by the Swakop 
River, 2000 ft., Marloth, 1448! Kann Valley, Schenck, 428. 
14. S. indicum, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 1, 634. Stems erect, simple or 
branched, from a few to 6 ft. high, very sparingly and finely pubescent 
and more or Jess mealy-glandular, at length glabrescent, obtusely 
quadrangular, suleate. Leaves very variable, usually heteromorphic ; 
lowest long petioled (petiole 4-6 in. long), 3-partite or 3-foliolate ; 
segments or leaflets ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acute, deeply dentate, 
3-6 in. long, 1-2 in. broad; upper with much shorter petioles, lanceolate, 
acute, attenuated at the base, 2—4 in. long, }—? in. broad, entire, rarely 
repand, passing into the similar foliaceous bracts; intermediate leaves 
also intermediate in shape and size; ali the leaves very sparingly and 
minutely pubescent, more or less mealy-glandular below. Pedicels very 
short, at length 2 lin. long, 2-bracteolate or subebracteolate at the base > 
nectaries sessile. Calyx 24 lin. long, finely pubescent ; segments lanceo- 
late, acute. Corolla about 1 in. long, obliquely campanulate, whitish, 
tinged with pink or purple. Capsule 3-1 in. long, }-} in. broad, usually 
finely pubescent, rather abruptly contracted into a short deltoid beak. 
Seeds pale brown or dark, 14 lin. long, faces smooth.—Bot. Mag. t. 1688 ; 
Endl. Iconogr. t. 70; Bernh. in Linnea, xvi. 37, 42; DC. Prodr. ix. 250 
and Pl. Rar. Gen. 18, t. 5; Wight, Ilustr. t. 163; A. Rich. Tent. Fl. 
Abyss. ii. 62; Welw. Apont. Phyto-Geogr. 551; Oliver in Trans- 
