Ceratotheca. | XCVII. PEDALINE# (STAPF). 563 
2. C. integribracteata, Lngl. Jahrb. xix. 156. Stems slender, 
erect, 1-23 ft. high, sparingly branched, obscurely quadrangular, more 
or less long and softly hairy. Leaves ovate, acute to acuminate, sub- 
cordate or truncate at the base, 14-2} in. long, 1-2 in. broad, coarsely 
dentate or crenate; the upper narrower, more sparingly dentate, passing 
into the lanceolate entire foliaceous bracts, loosely hairy, very sparingly 
mealy-glandular ; lateral nerves 3-4, very oblique, ascending ; lower 
petioles 3 lin. long, upper much shorter. Pedicels 1-2 lin. long with 
a pair of subulate bracteoles at the base. Calyx 2—23 lin. long, long 
and softly hairy; segments lanceolate. Corolla rose-coloured with 
purple streaks in the throat and on the lower lobe, 10-12 lin. long ; 
lower lobe orbicular, 4—5 lin. across. Capsule about 4 lin. long, 
2-2} lin. broad, villous or glabrescent ; horns 1} lin. long with a broad 
triangular base. Seeds slightly over 1 lin. long, margins smooth, faces 
minutely wrinkled.—Hiern in Cat. Afr. P]. Welw. i. 800, partly ; 
Henriques in Bull. Soc. Brot. xvi. 72. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Melange, Buchner, 80, Marques, 33,37; Pungo 
Andongo, Mechow, 95; Zenza do Golungo; Mongolo Mountains at Muchao, Welwitsch, 
1650! Golungo Alto; near Sange, Welwitsch, 1651! and fruit, Welwitsch, 822! 
823! Cazengo; near Cacula, We/witsch, 1649! Ambaca; between Ngombe and 
Lucala River, Welwitsch, 1652! Huilla; near Lopollo, Welwitsch, 1653! 
3. C. sesamoides, Hndl. in Linnea, vii. 5, tt. 1-2. Stems erect 
or suberect, branched, }—2 ft. high, slender, pubescent. Leaves deltoid- 
ovate to ovate or the upper oblong to linear-oblong, from a more or less 
truncate base, or hastate, dentate, or entire above the middle, pubescent, 
very densely mealy-glandular, glaucous or whitish beneath ; petioles of 
the lower leaves up to more than 1 in. long, very slender, upper much 
shorter. Calyx pubescent, 2—2} lin. long ; segments lanceolate. Corolla 
3 to almost 1 in. long, pale lilac, throat tinged with yellow and marked 
with purple lines; lower lobes broad-ovate, 7-10 lin. long. Capsule 
6-8 lin. long, 24-3 lin. broad, hairy ; horns up to 1} lin. long, rarely 
very minute or quite suppressed. Seeds brown or black, slightly over 
1 lin, long, margin transversely rugose.—DC. Prodr. ix. 252 (excl. syn. S. 
pterospermum, R. Br.) ; Bernh. in Linnea, xvi. 41 ; Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. 
Aethiop. 97; Klotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 188 excl. syn. ; 
Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. B. 520, C. 365, and Jahrb. xxxii. 110. C. sesamoides, 
var. melanoptera, DO. l.c.; Klotzsch, l.c. C. melanosperma, Hochst. ex 
Bernh. l.c. 32, 41. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia: near Kouma, Roger, 141! and without precise 
locality, Heudelot, 147! Kohaut ! 
Nile Land. Kordofan: Arashkol Mountain, Kotschy, 101! Dyika, Pfund, 
112! Obeid, Pfund, 85! Taiara, Pfund, 461! and without precise locality, Kotsch UP 
105: Jur; Jur Ghattas, Schweinfurth, 2456 ! Uganda: Acholi country, cultivated, 
Dawe, 860 ! 
Mozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa: Lower Zambesi; Senna, Kirk! 
Peters; Shupanga, Stewart! Kirk! Tete, Kirk! Peters ; Boros, Peters ; 
Moramballa, Kirk! Scott! British Central Africa : Niomkolo Island in Lake 
Tanganyika, Carson! Nyasaland: west shore of Lake Nyasa, Kirk! Uvera, 
