798 xciii. rEDALiACE.E. [Sesamum 



stem straight, sparingly Ijranched towards the top ; leaves obovate- 

 oblong, the upper ones obcuneate, all obtuse and more or less 

 ■emarginate at the apex, membranous, somewhat rigid, deep green and 

 rugulose above, clothed beneath with a lax or rather dense adpressed 

 whitish felt or hoary with a loose coarse tomentum ; flowers very large 

 and handsome, brilliantly purple or rosy violet, very like a foxglove, 

 drooping ; seeds obovate, 4-edged. delicately reticulate-wrinkled on 

 the faces. In sandy woody thickets between the streams Lutete and 

 Luxillo, near Fundo de Cazella, fl. and unripe fr. 18 Oct. 1856 ; from 

 Cazella to the right bank of the river Cuanza, Catete, etc., fl. and fr. 

 beginning of Jan. 1857 ; also near Lombe, very sparingly, fl. and f r. 

 March 1857. No. 1645, and Coll. Cai:i>. 169. 



This is the Se-'turuinn, which, "far surpassing all other herbaceous 

 plants in splendour, size and richness of blossoms, appears prominently 

 in all the less dense places of the wood " ; see Welw. in Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. iii. p. 153 (1859). 



4. S. digitaloides Welw. ex 8chinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. 

 p. 454 (1896). 



MosSAMEDEfJ. — An annual or biennial herb, erect, 4 to 5 ft. high, 

 divaricately branched from the base, pubescent ; flowers handsome, 

 of a deep rosy purple colour. In bushy gravelly maritime places at 

 the banks of the rivers Giraiil and Bero, usually flooded ; fl. and fr. 

 July 1859. No. 1647- 



5. S. antirrMnoides Welw. ms. in Herb, ex H. Schinz (Aschers.) 

 in Verb. Bot. Brandenb. xxx. p. 183 (1888). 



Volkameria antirrhinodes 0. Kuntze, I.e., p. 482. 



An erect, branched, annual herb, \ to 3 ft. high, rarely taller, 

 hirsute with spreading hairs, viscid-glandular, sparingly 

 branched ; stem and branches obtusely quadrangular, more or 

 less leafy ; leaves opposite or subopposite, undivided, entire or 

 remotely denticulate-repand, narrowly elliptical or .sublanceolate, 

 obtuse and apiculate or somewhat pointed at the apex, wedge- 

 shaped at the base, membranous-herbaceous, 1 to 2 in. long by 

 4 to i in. broad; petioles ranging up to f in. long; flowers 

 axillary, solitary, about 1 in. long ; peduncle about -J in. long in 

 flower, about J or \ in. long and thickened especially upwards 

 in fruit ; bracts 2, at the base of the peduncle and nearly 

 equallino' or rather exceeding it (one linear-filiform and the 

 other spathulate), with a perforated globular apparently abortive 

 flower-bud or large gland (nectary) between them ; calyx-segments 

 narrowly lanceolate, i to ] in. long; corolla rosy violet or purple, 

 minutely glandular and thinly pilo.se outside, campanulate-tubular, 

 the tube about ^ in. in diameter at the oblique throat, the limb 

 about i in. in diameter; capsule oblong, roundedly tetragonal, 

 somewhat compressed, 4-furrowed longitudinally, acuminate- 

 beaked, hirsute, glandular, f to 1 in. long (including the beak 

 of - in.), about 1 in. broad, loculicidally 2-valved ; seeds 

 numerous, obovate, compressed, J^ in. long, black, with a rather 

 broad uninterrupted projecting border or narrow wing round 

 each face, foveolate-rugulose within the borders. 



MossAMEDES,— In bushy sandy places at the banks of the river 



