560 XCVII, PEDALINE® (STAPF). [ Sesamaum. 
attenuated into the slender petioles, which decrease rapidly upwards. 
Pedicels very short, at length very stout, and slightly over 1 lin. long, 
subebracteolate ; nectaries sessile. Calyx 2 lin. long, more or less 
mealy-glandular; segments subulate-lanceolate. Corolla obliquely 
campanulate, curved near the base, pink to carmine, dark spotted in 
the throat, about 1 in. long; lobes subequal]. Capsule 14—2 in. long, 
24_3 lin. wide in the upper part, narrowed towards the base, acuminate- 
rostrate, finely pubescent ; beak very slender, up to 3 in. long. Seeds 
with an apical and a basal wing; nucleus muriculate-foveolate ; wings 
orbicular, firmly membranous, 2} lin. long, } lin. wide.—Engl. Pf. Ost- 
Afr. C. 365. S. pterospermum, R. Br. in Salt, Abyss. App. 64; and in 
Denham, Dixon & Clapperton, App. 229. S. vostratwm, Hochst. in 
Flora, 1841, i. Intell, Bl. 43. S. gracile, Endl. in Linnea, vii. 10, 
t. 3, figs. 43-49. Sesamopteris alata, DC. Prodr. ix. 251. Simsimum 
rostratum, Bernh. in Linnea, xvi. 39, 42. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Roger! Northern Nigeria; Borgu, Baréer, 
991! Bornu, Denham-Clapperton. 
Nile Land. Soudan: near Khartoum, Schweinfurth, 818! Kordofan : Ow 
Gasch, Pfund, 354! at the foot of Arashkol Mountain, Kotschy, 106! and without 
precise locality, Kotschy, 46! 94! Eritrea : Hakeko, Zord! 
Mozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa : Chiloane, Scott! Bechuanaland : 
Ngamiland ; Botletle Valley, Lugard, 188! 
16. S. Schenckii, Aschers. in Verhandl. Bot. Ver. Brandenb. xxx. 
184. Stem up to 23 ft. high, erect, stout, sparingly and finely mealy- 
glandular in the upper part. Leaves heteromorphic, the lowest and 
uppermost entire, the intermediate palmately 5—7-partite; segments 
like the entire leaves linear, intermediate segment up to 2% in. long, 
2 lin. broad; petioles up to 4 in. long. Calyx 2} lin. long; segments 
lanceolate, acute, villous-ciliate. Corolla with a purple tube and a paler 
limb (bluish according to Pelck), villous, 13 in. long. Capsule 1}1n. 
long, 24 lin. thick, shortly beaked. Seeds 1} lin. long, not winged, 
faces muricate-foveolate. 
Lower Guinea. German South-west Africa: Hereroland; Kan Yalley, 
Schenck, 431 ; Ameib, at the foot of the Erongo Mountains, Belck, 34. 
Evidently very closely allied to S. capense. 
17. S. capense, Burm. fil. Prodr. Cap. 17. Stem erect, simple or 
branched, }—6 ft. high, slender or stout, angular and sulcate or sub- 
terete, more or less mealy-glandular in the upper part, otherwise 
glabrous. Leaves digitately 5—3-foliolate; leaflets obovate-oblong to 
linear or lanceolate, subobtuse or obtuse, entire, narrowed at the base 
into a petiolule, or the outer sessile or fusing below, the intermediate 
the longest 1-2} in. long, 1-9 lin. broad above, glaucous and mealy- 
glandular beneath, more or less mealy-glandular on both sides ; petioles 
3-1 in. long, gradually decreasing upwards. Pedicels at first slender, 
1 lin. long, at length very stout, up to 2 lin. long, subebracteolate ; 
nectaries sessile. Calyx 24 lin. long, more or less pubescent ; segments 
lanceolate, acuminate. Corolla violet outside, violet-purple inside, 
