Ceratotheca.] xcvu. pedaline^e (stapf). 563 



2. C. integribracteata, Engl. Jahrb. six. 156. Stems slender, 

 erect, 1-2^- ft. high, sparingly branched, obscurely quadrangular, more 

 or less long and softly hairy. Leaves ovate, acute to acuminate, sub- 

 cordate or truncate at the base, 1J-2J in. long, 1-2 in. broad, coarsely 

 dentate or crenate; the upper narrower, more sparingly dentate, passing 

 into the lanceolate entire foliaceous bracts, loosely hairy, very sparingly 

 mealy-glandular ; lateral nerves 3-1, very oblique, ascending ; lower 

 petioles 3 lin. long, upper much shorter. Pedicels 1-2 lin. long with 

 a pair of subulate bracteoles at the base. Calyx 2~2\ lin. long, long 

 and softly hairy ; segments lanceolate. Corolla rose-coloured with 

 purple streaks in the throat and on the lower lobe, 10-12 lin. long ; 

 lower lobe orbicular, 4-5 lin. across. Capsule about 5 lin. long, 

 2-2% lin. broad, villous or glabrescent ; horns 1 \ lin. long with a broad 

 triangular base. Seeds slightly over 1 lin. long, margins smooth, faces 

 minutely wrinkled. — Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 800, partly ; 

 Henriques in Bull. Soc. Brot. xvi. 72. 



Lower Guinea. Angola : Melange, Buchner, 80, Marques, 33, 37 ; Pungo 

 Andongo, Mechow, 95; Zenza do Golungo; Mongolo Mountains at .Vluchao, Welwitsch, 

 1650! Clol ungo Alto ; near Sange, Welwitsch, 1651 ! and fruit, Welwitsch, 822 ! 

 823 ! Cazengo ; near Cacula, Welwitsch, 1649 ! Ambuca ; between Ngombe and 

 Lueala River, Welwitsch, 16521 Huilla ; near Lopollo, Welwitsch, 1653 ! 



3. C. sesamoides, Encll. in Linncea, vii. 5, tt. 1-2. Stems erect 

 or suberect, branched, \-2 ft. high, slender, pubescent. Leaves deltoid- 

 ovate to ovate or the upper oblong to linear-oblong, from a more or less 

 truncate base, or hastate, dentate, or entire above the middle, pubescent, 

 very densely mealy-glandular, glaucous or whitish beneath ; petioles of 

 the lower leaves up to more than 1 in. long, very slender, upper much 

 shorter. Calyx pubescent, 2-2% lin. long ; segments lanceolate. Corolla 

 § to almost 1 in. long, pale lilac, throat tinged with yellow and marked 

 with purple lines ; lower lobes broad-ovate, 7-10 lin. long. Capsule 

 6-8 lin. long, 2^-3 lin. broad, hairy ; horns up to \\ lin. long, rarely 

 very minute or quite suppressed. Seeds brown or black, slightly over 

 1 lin. long, margin transversely rugose. — DC. Prodr. ix. 252 (excl.syn. S. 

 ■pterospermum, R. Br.) ; Bernh. in Linnaaa, xvi. 41 ; Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. 

 Aethiop. 97; Klotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 188 excl. syn.; 

 Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. B. 520, C. 365, and Jahrb. xxxii. 115. C. sesamoides, 

 var. melanoptera, DC. I.e. ; Klotzsch, I.e. C. melanosperma, Hochst. ex 

 Bernh. I.e. 32, 41. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia : near Kouma, Roger, 141 ! and without pieeise 

 locality, JJeudelot, 147! Kohaut .' 



Wile Land. Kordofan : Arashkol Mountain, Kotschy, 101 ! Dyika, Pfund, 

 112! Obeid, Pfund, 85 I Taiara, Pfund, 461 ! and without precise locality, Kotschy, 

 105 : Jut; JurGhattas, Schweinf urth, 2456 ! Uganda: Acholi country, cultivated, 

 Daive, 860 ! 



IMCozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa : Lower Zambesi ; Senna, KirTc ! 

 Peters ; Shupanga, Stewart ! Kirk ! Tete, Kirk ! Peters ,- Boros, Peters ; 

 Movamballa, Kirk .' Scott ! British Central Africa : Niomkolo Island in Lake 

 Tanganyika, Carson ! Myasaland : west shore of Lake Nyasa. Kirk ! Uvera, 



