

SESAMUM.] PEDALIACKM. 175 



KIGELIA PINNATA, DC. ; Gamble Man. Ind. Tiirib. 517 ; Coo/re Fl. Bomb. 

 ii, 336 ; Brandis Ind. Trees 492. An ornamental tree introduced from. 

 Trop. Africa, and now largely grown in Indian gardens The rough, 

 pinnate leaves are clustered towards the ends of the branches, and the 

 large handsome maroon-coloured flowers are arranged on long pendent 

 racemes and open during the hot season. The hard gourd-like fruits, 2-3 

 ft. long, ripen during the cold season. It is a quick-growing tree and 

 the wood is hard. 



LXXXIV.-PEDALIACE^J. 



Herbs, rarely undershrnbs. Leaves opposite or the upper alternate, 

 entire toothed or lobed. Flowers irregular, hermaphrodite, usually 

 axillary and solitary (rarely fascicled or in racemes), pedicels short 

 bracts none or minute. Calyx 4 5-partife. Corolla tubular- ventri- 

 cose ; limb obscurely 2-lipped ; lobes 5, imbricate. Stamens didynam- 

 ous, rarely 2. Ovary 2-celled, rarely 1 -celled, style filiform, stigma 

 shortly 2-lobed ; ovules many or few, superposed. Fruit hard and 

 indehiscent, or a 2-(rarely 3-4) valved capsule. Seeds (in the Indian 

 species) wingless, albumen none. Species about 45, in the warmer 

 parts of both hemispheres, especially in desert regions and on sea 

 coasts. 



SESAMUM, Linn.; Fl. Brit. Ind. iv, 386. 



Erect to prostrate herbs. Leaves opposite below, upper alternate, 

 entire toothed, lobed or divided. Flowers axillary, solitary or few 

 and fascicled, shortly pedicelled, purplish or pink, often marked with 

 yellow. Calyx small, 5-partite. Corolla tubular-ventricose, base 

 subgibbous ; limb 2-Kpped ; lobes 5, those of the upper lip usually 

 smaller. Stamens didynamous, included ; anthers sagittate, the 

 cells subparallel, distinct. Ovary 2-celled, becoming 4-celled by the 

 intrusion of a false, dissepiment ; ovules many, 1-seriate in each 

 chamber ; style filiform, stigma 2-lobed. Capsule oblong or ovoid, 

 loculicidally 2-valved, 4-chambered, usually 4-angled. Seeds many, 

 obliquely oblong, subcompressed, foveol ate. Species about 10, in 

 India and in Trop. and S. Africa. 



S, indicum, Linn. Sp. PL 634 ; DC. L'Orig. PL Cult. 557; Duthie and 

 Fuller Field and Gard. Crops n, 55, t 42 ; F. B. I. iv,387 ; Watt E. D.; 

 Comm. Prod. Ind. 981 : Prain Beng. PL 792 ; Cooke FL Bomb, ii, 338. S. 

 orientale, Linn.; Roxb. Fl. Ind. Hi, 100 Vern. Til, tili, tila (Sansc.) 

 Gingelly or Sesame. 



An erect pubescent or puberulous annual, 1-2 ft. high, branching from 

 the base. Leaves oblong or ovate, 3-5 in. long, the lower ones lobed 

 or often pedatisect, lobes serrate ; upper leaves narrowly oblong, entire, 

 glabrous above, puberulous beneath. Pedicels % in. long, solitary or 



