U 
Sesamum. | CVI. PEDALINE® (STAPF). 561 
pubescent, obliquely campanulate ; tube up to 1 in. long, very slightly 
curved at the base ; lobes about } in. long, subequal. Capsule 14~1}in. 
long, }-} in. broad, sparingly pubescent ; each valve strongly 3-nerved 
and produced at the base into 2 rounded or obscurely 3-lobed knobs o 
short horns; beak about 5 lin. long, subulate-acuminate from a tri- 
angular base. Seeds } in. long including the wing which runs all round 
from the base leaving the apex on one side, faces muriculate-foveolate.— 
Stapf in Dyer, Fl. Cap. iv. ii. 461. S. pentaphyllum, E. Meyer in Drége, 
Zwei Pflanz. Documente, 50, 54 ; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 800; 
Baum, Kunene-Samb. Exped. 371. S. triphyllum, Welw. ex Asch, in 
Verh. Bot. Ver. Brandenb. xxx. 185, 239; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. 
Welw. i. 799. WS. lepidotum, Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. 455. 
Sesamopteris pentaphylla, DC. Prodr. ix. 251. Volkameria triphylla, 
O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. i. 482. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Mossamedes; by the River Maiombo, near Pedra 
do Rei, Welwitsch, 1663! in the dry bed of the River Bero, Welwitsch, 1661 
partly! Mossamedes, Hépfner, 118; Newton, 338. Huilla; between Nene and 
Hunpati and near Lopollo and Monino, Welwitsch, 1662! Benguella; near 
Benguella, Welwitsch, fruit, 25! between Benguella and the River Cavado, 
Welwitsch, 1661 partly! near Napalanka on the Longa River, 3800 ft., Baum, 585. 
German South-west Africa; Amboland, Schinz. 
Mozamb. Dist. Bechuanaland : Upper Siltagoli River, Schenck, 697! 
Var. grandiflorum, Stapf. Calyx more or less woolly or pubescent with long 
hairs. Corolla pale purplish to white with a dark throat ; tube up to 14 in. long ; lobes 
up to 3 in. long. Seeds with a short “spoon-like’” wing at the upper end.— 
S. grandiflorum, Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. 453. 
Lower Guinea. (erman South-west Africa: 
Rautanen, 73! Hereroland; Nanas, Fleck, 2740! 
Mozamb. Dist. Bechuanaland: Ngamiland; Kwebe Hills, 3300 ft., Lugard, 
lll! Mrs. Lugard, 172. 
S. lepidotum was described from imperfect material (Hépfner, 118, and Newton, 
$3) and distinguished chiefly by the dense mealy glandulr covering on both sides of 
the leaves. It agrees in this respect with Welwitsch’s specimen, 1661, at Kew. 
The typical form oceurs also in extratropical South Africa. 
Amboland ; Olukonda, 
Imperfectly known species. 
18. S. Dinterii, Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss, vii. 65. Stem erect, 
over 4 ft. high, like the whole plant densely covered with long fine 
spreading more or less gland-tipped hairs, terete or obscurely angular in 
the upper part, straw-coloured. Lower leaves unknown, upper lanceo- 
late-elliptic to lanceolate, acute, apiculate, entire, up to 14 in. long and 
up to 7 lin. broad, glaucous; petiole very slender up to 10 lin. long. 
Pedicels up to 2 lin. long, at length rather stout and 3 lin. long. Calyx 
7-8 lin. long; segments lanceolate. Corolla pink with large yellow 
spots in the throat, very obliquely campanulate, 2 in. long ; limb very 
oblique ; lobes subequal, about 7 lin. long and 8 lin. broad. Capsule 
about 11 in. long, 23-3 lin. broad, densely pubescent to villous ; beak 
up to 4 lin. long, broad. Seeds brown, strongly compressed, 1} lin. 
long, faces radially rugose near the margins, perfectly smooth in the 
centre, sides very narrow, pitted, margins acute. 
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