s 
Sesamothamnus. | XCVII, PEDALINEE (STAPF). 569 
much over | in. long, rather slender; bracts very small, or the lowest 
sometimes foliaceous with a small obovate densely mealy-glandular blade; 
pices up to 3 lin. long, 2-bracteolate ; bracteoles very small. Calyx 
1) lin. long; segments ovate, obtuse, subequal or the posticous much 
smaller and deflexed. Corolla-tube 2} in. long, 1} lin. wide below, 
34 lin. wide near the mouth, sparingly pubescent within near the base ; 
Spur very slender, 1-1} in. long, recurved ; limb 1} in. across; lobes 
obovate-orbicular, 7-9 lin. broad. Posticous filaments 3 lin. long.—Stapf 
in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3 B. 262. 
Mozamb. Dist. (German Kast Africa: Kilimanjaro, Smith ! 
_ 5. S. Brlangeri, Hngl. Jahrb. xxxii. 113. A small tree, 15 ft. 
high ; branches glaucous when young; spines about 5 lin. long, up to 
24 lin. thick at the base. Leaves obovate, obtuse or subemarginate, 
13 in. long, 1} in. broad, thick, rigid, densely mealy-glandular, loosely 
and prominently reticulate below ; petiole 24-3} lin. long. Bracts long 
hairy, lower ovate, 1} lin. long, 1 lin. broad; bracteoles spathulate, up 
to 24 lin. long; pedicels stout. Calyx over 1 lin. long; segments ovate, 
obtuse. Corolla pale pink ; tube 24 in. long, 2 lin. wide at the middle, 
slightly widened and long-hairy above; spur 13 in. long, 1 lin. wide ; 
lobes broad-ovate, covered with short white hairs within, 7-10 lin. 
pe 10 lin. long. Filaments almost entirely adnate ; anthers 2 lin. 
ong. 
Wile Land. Abyssinia: country of the Arussi Gallas; Wabi-Budugo, on dry 
wooded ground, Ei/enbeck, 1166. 
Imperfectly known species. 
6. S. Rivze, Engl. in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, vii. 30. A tree with 
terete glaucescent branches ; spines sparse, recurved or spreading, 5-8 
lin. long, bearing a pair of shorter spines in their axils. Leaves and 
flowers unknown. Capsule elongate-oblong, suboblique, apiculate, 2-2} 
in. long, 8-10 lin. broad. Seeds very delicately winged, 2} lin. long 
and broad.—Eng]. Jahrb. xxxii. 114. 
Wile Land, Somaliland: Ogaden; near Karoul, Riva, 1089. 
Engler suggests (Bot. Jahrb. xxxii. 114) that this may be the fruiting condition 
of §. Eriangeri. 
12, SIGMATOSIPHON, Engl. Jahrb. xix. 150. 
Calyx 5-partite. Corolla-tube very long, cylindrical, slightly 
widened towards the ends, S-shaped, densely hairy within up to 
the middle, symmetric and without a spur at the base ; limb spreading, 
large obscurely 2-labiate ; lobes 5, ovate, obtuse. Stamens 4, subdidy- 
namous, inserted below the mouth of the corolla; anthers sagittate ; 
cells attached to the connective with their tips. Disc fused with the 
base of the ovary, equal all round. Ovary 2-celled; cells divided 
nearly to the apex by a spurious septum ; ovules many, |-seriate in each 
