Sesanuum. | XCVl. PEDALINE® (STAPF). d59 
Linn. Soc. xxix. 131; Bentl. & Trim. Med. Pl. t. 198; Ficalho, Pl. 
Uteis, 237 ; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 387; Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. B. 156 
486, fig. 21; Watt, Dict. Econ. Prod. Ind. vi. ii. 502-542; Stapf in 
Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. iv. 3 B. 262, fig. 100, A—L; Kéhler, 
Med. PA. iii. ; De Wild. & Durand, PI. Thonner. Congol. 34, and PI. 
Gillet. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2° sér. i. 39; Semler, Trop. Agrik. ed. 
i. 472. S. orientale, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 1, 634; Lam. Illustr. iii. 82, t. 528 ; 
Gertn. Fruct. t. 110; Endl. in Linnea, vii. 30; Chamisso in Linnea, 
vii. 723; Bernh. in Linnea, xvi. 37, 42; Hiern in Cat. Atr. Pl. Welw. 
i. 797. WS. edule, Hort. ex Steud. Nom. ed. i. 769. S. oleiferum, 
Moench, Meth. Suppl. 174. S. drasiliense, Vell. Fl. Flum. 264, vi. t. 90. 
Anthadenia sesamoides, Van Houtte in Hort. Vanhoutt. fase. i. 4, and 
in FI. des Serres, ii. (Avril 1846) 10, t. 6. Volkameria orientalis, O. Kuntze, 
Rey. Gen. Pl. ii. 481. V. sesamodes, O. Kuntze, l.c. 482. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia: Galam, Roger, 140! and without precise 
locality, Heudelot! Sierra Leone, Don. Northern Nigeria: Nupe, Barter, 
1260 ! 
Nile Land. Nubia: Korkos Island between Berber and Khartoum, Schwein- 
furth, 748! Abyssinia: Jelajerenne, Schimper, 620! Kordofan, Kotschy, 181! 
194! Pfund, 368! By the White Nile, Petherick ! Uganda: Kavirondo ; 
Mumias, Scott-Elliot, 7058 ! in various localities, 4400-6000 ft., Whyte / 
Lower Guinea. Lower Congo: Kisantu, Gillet, 353. Angola: Likongo; by 
the Lifune River, Welwitsch, 1639; Cazengo; near Cacula, Welwitsch, 1640! 
Golungo Alto; by the Cuango River, near Sange, Welwitsch, 1688! Pungo 
Andongo; near the Cuanza River, near Sansamanda, and in neglected fields near 
Condo, Welwitsch, 1641. 
South Central, Congo Free State: plantations near Businga, Thonuer, 
LS: 
Mozamb. Dist. (German East Africa: Mininga, Speke §° Grant, 74! 
Kilimanjaro, Johnston ! Rovuma River, Meller! Portuguese East Africa : 
Chriange, east of Lake Nyasa, Johnson, 332! British Central Africa : Nyasaland; 
Katunga, Scott ! 
Cultivated in many of the above localities and in most tropical and subtropical 
countries for the oil which is extracted from the seeds, very probably of tropical 
African origin. 
Engler (Jahrb. xxxii. 115) described a variety integerrimum, which appears to 
be merely a stunted state, about 1 ft. high, with entire oblong leaves and short 
capsules, It was collected by Ellenbeck in the Galla Country near Gallaboda-J idda 
at 4300-4600 ft., and by Pogge in the Congo Free State by the Lulua River. A 
specimen collected by Whyte in Kavirondo, not far from Mumias at 4400 ft., 
represents evidently the same condition. 
15. S. alatum, Thonn. in Schumach. & Thonn. Beskr, Guin. Pl. 
284. Stem erect, branched, 2-3 ft. high, more or less quadrangular 
and 4-suleate or almost terete, glandular in the upper part, soon 
glabrescent. Leaves usually heteromorphic; lower long-petioled 
(petiole up to 4in. long), digitately 5-(-3) foliolate or 5-(-3) partite ; 
leaflets or segments linear-lanceolate, entire, acute or subacute, the 
middle one the longest, 1-3 in. long, 1—4 lin. broad, more or less mealy- 
glandular below, otherwise glabrous ; upper leaves and foliaceous bracts 
undivided, lanceolate to finely linear, often less than 1 lin. broad, 
