Rumpr defcribes the leaves to be three-lobed at the bottom 
of the plant, ferrated in the middle, and quite entire or only 
{inuate at the upper part; but acknowledges that, in all thefe 
refpeéts, they are fubject to vary; their form feems therefore 
to be of little ufe in determining the fpecies. The lower 
leaves of our plant were three-lobed. In the Hortus 
Malabaricus Szsamum orientale is drawn with leaves and 
peduncles alternate; in all the figures which we have quoted, 
as fynonyms of our plant, they are oppofite, as they have been 
in all the genuine {pecimens that we have feen, except a little 
occafional deviation, and even then the difpofition to remain 
oppolite has been very evident. 
Both this fpecies and ortentale are much cultivated in Egypt, 
and in the Eaft and Weft-Indies, for the fake of the oil procured 
from the feeds, which is of the moft extenfive ule, and is faid 
to grow more mellow and agreeable with age. 
Our drawing was made from a weak plant which flowered at 
Mr. Vere’s, of Kenfington-Gore, in Auguft 1819. The fketch 
of the feed-veflels was added laft {ummer from a much ftronger 
plant which grew quite ere, the produce of the fame feeds. It 
is a tender annual, requiring to be raifed and invigorated by 
renewed hot-beds, to bring it to perfe€tion in this country. e 
_ Rupr mentions two varieties of Szesamum indicum, one 
with white the other with black feeds; we are informed by 
Mr. Anperson, that the feeds of our plant are of a yellowifh 
white colour, and were fent from Jamaica under the name of 
VANGALOSA, 
