560 xcvii. pedaline.e (stapf). \_Sesamum. 



attenuated into the slender petioles, which decrease rapidly upwards. 

 Pedicels very short, at length very stout, and slightly over 1 lin. long, 

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

 mealy-glandular ; segments subulate-lanceolate. Corolla obliquely 

 campanulate, curved near the base, pink to carmine, dark spotted in 

 the throat, about 1 in. long ; lobes subequal. Capsule 1 J-2 in. long, 

 2^-3 lin. wide in the upper part, narrowed towards the base, acuminate- 

 rostrate, finely pubescent ; beak very slender, up to J in. long. Seeds 

 with an apical and a basal wing ; nucleus muriculate-foveolate ; wings 

 orbicular, firmly membranous, 2h lin. long, \ lin. wide. — Engl. PA. Ost- 

 Afr. C. 365. >$. pterosperimim, R. Br. in Salt, Abyss. App. 64 ; and in 

 Denham, Dixon & Clapperton, App. 239. S. rostratum, Hochst. in 

 Flora, 1841, i. Intell. Bl. 43. S. gracile, Endl. in Linnsea, vii. 10, 

 t. 3, figs. 43-49. Sesamopteris (data, DC. Prodr. ix. 251. Simsimum 

 rostratum, Bernh. in Linnsea, xvi. 39, 42. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Roger ! Northern Nigeria ; Borgu, Barter, 

 '991! Bornu, Denham- CI ap pert on. 



Wile Land. Soudan : near Khartoum, Schiveinfurth, 818 ! Kordofan : Om 

 'Uasch, Pfitnd, 354 ! at the foot of Arashltol Mountain, TLotschy, 106 ! and without 

 precise locality, Koiscliy, 46 ! 94 ! Eritrea : Hakeko, Lord ! 



iviozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa : Chiloane, Scott! Bechuanaland : 

 Ngamiland ; Botletle Valley, Zugard, 188 ! 



16. S. Schenckii, Aschers. in Verhandl. Bot. Ver. Brandenb. xxx. 

 1S4. Stem up to 2\ ft. high, erect, stout, sparingly and finely mealy- 

 glandular in the upper part. Leaves heteromorphic, the lowest and 

 uppermost entire, the intermediate palmately 5-7-partite ; segments 

 like the entire leaves linear, intermediate segment up to 2f in. long, 

 2 lin. broad ; petioles up to 4 in. long. Calyx 2\ lin. long ; segments 

 lanceolate, acute, villous-ciliate. Corolla with a purple tube and a paler 

 limb (bluish according to Belck), villous, If in. long. Capsule ljin. 

 long, 2-h lin. thick, shortly beaked. Seeds lh lin. long, not winged, 

 faces muricate-foveolate. 



Lower Guinea. German South-west Africa : Hereroland ; Kan Valley, 

 Scheuck, 431 ; Ameib, at the foot of the Erongo Mountains, Betclc, 34. 

 Evidently very closely allied to S. capense. 



17. S. capense, Burm.fil. Prodr. Cap. 17. Stem erect, simple or 

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

 terete, more or less mealy-glandular in the upper part, 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|- in. long, 1-9 lin. broad above, glaucous and mealy- 

 glandular beneath, more or less mealy-glandular on both sides ; petioles 

 3-1 in. long, gradually decreasing upwards. Pedicels at first slender, 

 1 lin. long, at length very stout, up to 2 lin. long, subebracteolate ; 

 nectaries sessile. Calyx 2| lin. long, more or less pubescent ; segments 

 lanceolate, acuminate. Corolla violet outside, violet-purple inside, 





