Sesdmefs.] CXXI. PEDALINE^. . 1059 



lata; integra inciso-denlata 3-fida v. pedatisecta"/ Flores pallidi v. violacei, ad axillas 

 solitariij brevitor nunc brevissime pedicellati. 



Species 9 v. 10, omnes Africse tropicse v, australis incolae, una tamen in regionibus tropicis 



iitriusque orbis dia culta latijisimo dispersa saepeqxie inqiiilina. In sectiones aequentes distri- 

 buuntiir : j- .-*• , '\ 



1, Sesamotyptis. Herb* annufe, ereetse, ealyce saepius nee aemper persistente'/'"Cap9ula demum 



srepius fere ud basin dehiscens, septospurio inbiminas in quaque valva persistentes lociUos claudentes 

 fissOj qiiare dehiseentia incaute observata septicida apparct; colnnina placentifera scepe in media 

 capsula fore ad basin liberata. Semina cqmpres^a, l^evia, cxalata. Species 5 v. 6, ^ DC. Prod, ix 250 

 (speciebns omnibns'prieter S, hicinuiuihi ad varictates S^incUci reducendis). Gm^tn, Fruct. 1 110. 



'Da PL Bar. Jard. Gen. t. 5. EndL Icmwgr. /. 70. Wight, Illnstr. t. 163. OfivVirf'Triihs. 



^LzTut. Soc. xxix. 131, t, 84. 2Sot. Mag. L 1688, Anthadenia, V- HotUie, FL des Serves, ii. Apr. 



1846, to|T/«/' Wdjp:'mpl^)m'i: " ■■- '' ' r 



2. Sesamopteris. llabiLus et capsula Se&amotypL Calyx ssepiuB nee semper decidiiua. Semina 

 foveolata, apicc basique v, fere cireumcirca in alam. brevcm bjalinam cxpansa. Species 2, altera 

 Africae ttopicge, altera Africce anstmlis ineola, EndL in Linnrsa^ \\u 10, t. 3,/. 43 ad 49. SimsiMum 



€t Gangiia, -fif?:»A, m Xi>i/i<sfi, ^vi, 42 (stirpes ncc gen^^^i^^, nee t^peciflce qujdQ^a^iftl^r^o.tof^ 

 gtiend*), SB^AMOprEiiis, DC. Prod, ix- 251 (fxcb S. radiato). 



L,il^'^.Cham<B£^samy,p^. llerbse pereuncs, protttratie, _Capsula quam in pr£ecedentibus,breypr,\cras- 

 BiOTj indehiscens V. apice solo dehiscent. Semina ut in Semmotypo G^x.3X^\^y Mi \\x Scsayao pier id e 

 ^oveolata. Speci<^ 2, S. laeiniatmn^ Klein., et S. prostrahc7ii, Eetz., India' orlcntalis' peninsular incolae. 

 'Wight, let 1345, 1316. 



9- Ceratotheca, Endl. in Linnoia, vii. 5, (. 1, 2 ; Atahtay L 5, (Sporledera, Benih. 

 m Linncecty xvi. 41,)— Calyx 5-partitua v, alte 5-fidus, persistens v. demum decidinis. 

 Corolla tubus basi decurvuSj sub^qiialis V, pOatice gibbiis, supenie valde ainidiatus, obli- 

 que aubcampanulatus ; limbus sub-2-labiatuSj*lobia 5 latis subpatentibus, posticis laterali- 

 busqub brevibuSj antico^longiure. Stamina 4, didynauta, prope basiu.tubi aiiixa, inclusa ; 

 anther^e oblonga!, sagittat^e, dorsifix^, loculis subparallelis. Discus vix prominulns. 

 Ovarium villosum, 2-locularej loculis aeptia spuriis mox inter placentas intruais in loceilos 

 2 divisis ; ovula in quoque locello cq, 1-seriatim superposita, subtraiisversa. Capsula ob- 

 longaj obtuse sub-4-gonaj supenie septo cuntrarie compressa, apice late truiicuta, angulia 

 in comua productis, medio vertice interdiun bre^-issime acuminata, ab apice fere ad basin 

 lociilicide debiaceus^ soptis spuriis fissis loceilos subclaudentibua, a^xi placentifcro plus 

 minus liberato. Semiiia in locelUs oo, transversa v. subascunduntia, obovata, conipressaj 

 marginibus rotundatis v. siccitate 2-angulatis, testa reticulata exalata, — Herbte (an 

 aemper ?) annuaa, erectie, pubescentes. Folia opposita v. superiora alterna. oyata, den- 

 tata. Flores in axillis solitarii, breviter pcdiccUati ' surdide lutei,' 



Species 2, Africse tropicse incolae. DC Prod, is, 252. 



Genus Sesamo valde affine, differt eorollfe forma et capsula truncata 2-cornuta. Sporhderam 

 Kraussianam, Bernh.> a S. ii'iloba, Bernh.j distiuguere nequivimus- Capsula in eodem specimine medio 

 apice brevis&ime acuminata et plana. Semina humectata luargine rotundata, siccitate soepe anguio 



TrIBUS IV. PRETREE.^. 



10, ffretrea, J^ Gay in Ann. Sc. NaL sei\ 1, i, 457- (Dicerocaryunij Boj. in Ann- Sc. 

 ifqt. sti\ 2, iv, 268, (, 10.) — Calyx 5-gartitus, CoxoUie tubus basi decurvusj parum obli- 

 quuSj superne valde ampliatus, oblique subcampanulatus ; limbus sub-2-labiatus, lobis 5 

 latis subpatentibus, posticis lateralibusque brevibus, antico longiore. Stamina 4, didy^- 

 nama, prope basin corolbe afUxa, inclusa ; antherae oblonga^^ sagittata;, dorsiiixa>, loculis 

 subpui'allolis. Discus vix promiuulus. Ovarium 2-loculare, loculis sejitis spuriis 2-locel- 

 latis ; ovula in quoque locello i (v. 2?) a basi ascendentia, Fructus durissimus, iude- 

 hiscensj basi in discum late cyathiformem irregulariter suborbiculatum expansus, in 

 medio disco, didymu^; parum elevatus, in cornua 2 erecta conica productus, inter 

 connia et discum vjttie tuberculatus v.rarius muricatus, intua 4-locularis. Semina in 



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