﻿Sesamum.] pedalinej-: (Stapf). 461 



Watt, Diet. Eeon. Prod. Ind. vi. if. 502-542 ; Stapf in Engl. &■ 

 Prantl, Pflmzmf. iv. 3B, m2,fig. 100, A~L; Kohlei; Med. Pft. iii. ; 

 ne Wild. Sf Dur. PL Thonner. Cong. 36, and PI. Gilleb. in Bull. 

 Herb. Bohs. 2me ser. i. 39. S. orientale, Linn. Sp. PL ed. i. 634 • 

 Lam. lllustr. iii. 82, t. 528 ; Gxrtn. Fruct. L^lO; Endl. in Linruea', 

 vii. 30; Cham, in Linnaa, vii. 723; Bernh. in Linnaa, xvi. 37, 42 • 

 Siern in Cat. Afr. PL Welic. i. 797. S. edule, Hort. ex Steud. 

 Nom. ed. i. 769. S. oleiferwn, Moeuch, Metli. Suppl. 174. 6'. 

 brasiliense, Veil. Fl. Flum. 264, vi. t. 90. Anthadenia sesamoid 66, 

 Van Houtte in Hort. Van Hontt.fasc. i. 4, and in Fl. Ser. ii. Airil, 

 t' 6. Volkameria orientalie, 0. Kuntse, Rev. Gen. PL ii. 481. V. 

 gesamodes, 0. Kmtze, I.e. 482. 



Kasterx Kegion : Natal; Sinkwazi, Wood! aud without precise locality, 

 Gcrrard, 586 ! 



According to Medley Wood, the natives grow it for the seeds whicli tlicy use 

 for eating with boiled maize and extracting oil. 



2. S. eapense (Burm. fil. FJ. Cap. Prod. 17) ; stem erect, simple or 

 branched, ,]-6 ft. high, slender or stout, angular and sulcate or sub- 

 terete, more or less mealy-glandular in the upper parfc^ otherwise 

 glabrous ; leaves digitately 5-3-foliolate ; leaflets obovate-oblong to 

 linear or lanceolate, subobtuse or obtuse, entire, narrowed at the base 

 into a petiolule, or the outer sessile or fusing below, the intermediate 

 the longest, 1-2.V in. long, 1-9 lin. broad, rarely more or less mealy- 

 glandular on both sides, glaucous above ; petioles 3-1 in. long, 

 subebracteolate ; nectaries sessile ; calyx 2} lin. long, more or less 

 pubescent ; segments lanceolate, acuminate ; corolla violet outside, 

 violet-puriile inside, pubescent, obliquely campanulate ; tube up to 



1 in. long, very slightly curved at the base ; lobes about ■} in. long, 

 siibequal ; capsule l^-lf in. long, 3-4 lin. broad, sparingly pubes- 

 cent, each valve strongly 3-nerved and produced at the base into 



2 rounded or obscurely 3-lobed knobs or short horns, beak about 

 5 lin. long, subulate-acuminate from a triangular base ; seed.? 4 lin. 

 long including the wing which runs all round, faces muriculate- 

 foveolate. >S. pentaphyllum, E. Meyer in Drege, Zwei Pjtanzengeogr. 

 Documente, 50, 54 ; Eiern in Cat. Afr. PL Wel/r. i. ,sOO ; nmnn, 

 Kunene-Samb. Exped. 371. S. triphyllum, Weho. ex Anch. in J'nh. 

 Bot. Vei: Brandenb., xxx. 185, 239; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PL Wehr. 



'i. 799. Sesamopteris pentap)hylla, DC. Prodr. ix. 2yl. .S'. lepi- 

 dotwn, Schinz in BtilL Herb. Boiss. iv. 455. Volkameria trii>lnjlla, 

 O. Kuntze, Bev, Gen. PL ii. 482. 



Centeal Besion : Somerset Div. ; ne^ir Somerset East Bon-ker, 112 I 142 ! 

 Colesberg Div.; near the Orange Eiver, Knobel,5\ near Colesberg, 4o00 ft., 

 Br^ege! AUual North Div.; at the union of Storm berg Spruit and Orange 

 River, Dr^ege. Albert Div., Cooper, 1386! Cradork D.v ; near Cradoek, 

 Ooo:P^, 1347! Richmond Div.; vicinity of Styl Kloof, near Richmond, 



^ KALAHARI Region: Griqualand West, Herbert Div.; St. Clair, near 



