Sesamum. ] CVII. PEDALINER. (C. B. Clarke.) 387 
4-celled. Seeds numerous, obliquely oblong.—Disrnrs. Species 10, Indian 
and tropical or southern Africa. 
1. S. indicum, DC. Prodr. ix. 250; erect, leaves oblong or ovate 
lower often pedatisect, capsule tetragonous oblong, seeds brown smooth. 
Wall. Cat. 6408; Wight Ill. t. 163; Bot. Mag. t. 1688; Dalz. & Gibs. 
Bomb. Fl.161. S. orientale, Linn.; Gaertn. Fruct. ii. 139, t. 110; Lamk. 
Lil. t. 528; Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 100. S. luteum, Retz. Obs. vi. 31; DC. Le. 
S. occidentale, Heer & Regel; DC. l c.; Thwaites Enum. 442.— Rumph. 
Herb. Amboin. t. 76, fig. l. Rheede Hort. Mal. ix. tt. 54, 55. 
Throughout the warmer parts of INDIA and CEYLON, cultivated.—DrsTRIB. 
Cultivated in all hot countries. Native country doubtful, probably Asiatic. 
Height 1-2 ft., pubescent or puberulous. Leaves 3-5 in., variable on the same 
plant; upper often narrowly oblong subentire, middle ovate toothed, lower lobed or 
pedatisect; petiole 4-2 in. Pedicels y in., solitary, rarely 2-3-nate. Sepals 4 in., 
lanceolate. Corolla 14 in., pubescent, whiteish or with red purplish or yellow marks. 
Capsule 1 by X in., erect, scabrid-pilose, the same width from top to bottom, usually 
shortly acuminate ; 2-valved half-way down, or sometimes to the base, or ultimately 
4-valved. 
2. S. laciniatum, Klein; Willd. Sp. Pl. iii. 359; prostrate, hispid, 
leaves ovate lobed and deeply subpedately pinnatifid, capsule ovoid 
compressed, seeds black reticulate. DC. Prodr. ix. 209; Wight Ic. 
t. 1345. 
S. DECCAN PENINSULA, Rottler, Wight, &c.; Cochin, Johnstone. uu 
Appressedly prostrate, 1-3 ft., branching. Leaves 4-1} in., orbicular or elliptic 
in outline, laciniations acute; petiole 0-4 in. Pedicels } in., solitary. Sepals 1in., 
lanceolate. Corolla 1 in., minutely pubescent, purple, yellow in the palate. Cap- 
sule + by 4 in., scabrous-pilose, shortly mucronate ; valves 2, dorsally compressed. 
3. S. prostratum, Retz. Obs. iv. 28; prostrate, villous, leaves 
orbicular or obovate crenate or obtusely lobed with white indumentum 
beneath, capsule ovoid compressed, seeds black reticulate. Wall. Cat. 
6409; Wight Io. t. 1346. 
MADRas ; especially on sandhills near the sea, Roftler, Wight, Shuter. 
Closely allied to S. laciniatum, and hardly separable therefrom by the characters 
given. The leaves are generally entire, sometimes 3-lobed half-way ; the teeth never 
sharp as in S. laciniatum. 
Orper CIX. ACAN'THACEZE. (By C. B. Clarke.) 
Herbs or shrubs, rarely trees. Leaves opposite, exstipulate, very rarely 
divided. Flowers rarely solitary, bracteate and 2-bracteolate. Calyx 
5-partite (in Thunbergia small often raultifid). Corolla 2-lipped, or sub- 
equally 5-lobed; lobes imbricated or twisted in bud. Stamens 4 or 2, 
inserted on the corolla-tube; anthers 2- or 1-celled ; cells sometimes remote. 
Dise often conspicuous. Ovary superior, 2-celled ; style filiform, notched or 
bifid (1 branch often obsolete); ovules one or more in each (cell, 1- or 2- 
seriate, anatropous. Capsule loculicidal; valves often elastically recurved, 
Carrying the seeds on the half-septa. Seeds (except in Thunbergia and 
the Nelsoniew) hard, seated on upcurved subacute supports (retinacula), 
ovoid or compressed, testa smooth rugose or warted rarely hispid, often 
clothed with white elastic hairs (best seen when wetted), albumen 0 (except 
Nelsoniee) ; radicle next the hilum.—Species 1500, in the tropical and warin 
temperate regions. mE 
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