166 PEDALIACE2. 
On the whole my view is liable to fewer exceptions, nor 
do I see any reason, why a filament should not become 
processiferous. 
If they are stamina, then the 1st series is reduced to two, 
the 2nd is complete and represented by the denticular bodies, 
and the normal number hence will be 25, the third is com- 
plete, the 4th wanting, the 5th complete in number but not 
in function. 
PEDALIACE.E. 
SESAMUM, 
Sesamum orientala, 
Cal. subæqualiter et profunde 5-partit. persistens. 
Cor. campanulata, tubo basi superne gibbo limbo sub- 
bilabiato crenulato lobo 1 tantum porrecto. 
Stam didynama ad partem gibbum insert. filam subulat. 
inclusa. Anth. basibus affixe, bilocul. longit. dehiscent, 
Stylus filiformis inclusus, Stigmata 3, acuta lineari-lanceo- 
lata. Discus hypogynus annuliformis, ovarium basin cingens. 
Ovarium extus glanduloso hispid. 3-loculare interdum su- 
perne 6-loculare, septis 9, multo magis tenuibus forsan 
spuriis e nervo dorsali folior. carpellorum completis incom- 
pletisve ortis. 
Ovulis plurimis 1-serialibus, si septa 6, 2; si 3, transversis 
vel ascendentibus, foramen hilum prope. 
Sem. obovata tegumento duplici. aibumine parco carnoso 
oleaso. ^ Radicula brevis subulata hilo versa, cotyledones 
planz, plumula inconspicua. 
Dehiscentia loculicida. Herbacea viscosa pubescens. 
Foliis lanceolato-linearibus  subintegris, acutis floribus 
albis maculis rubris, aspectu Digitalis, axillaribus breviter 
pedicellatis, solitariis. Bracteis setaceis 2 ad basin pedi- 
cellorum, fructibus pubescent. erectis, obtuse 3-gonis. 
