Sesamum.] xcvu. pedaline.k (stapf). 550 



Linn. Soc. xxix. 181; Bentl. & Trim. Med. PI. t. 198; Ficalho, PL 

 Uteis, 237 ; Hook. f. FJ. Brit. Incl. iv. 387 ; Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. B. 156 

 486, fig. 21; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. Incl. vi. ii. 502-542; Stapf in 

 Engl. & Pratitl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. iv. 3 B. 262, fig. 100, A— L ; Kohler, 

 Med. Pfl. iii. ; De Wild. & Durand, PI. Thonner. Congol. 34, and PL 

 Gillet. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2 me ser. i. 39 ; Sender, Trop. Agrik. ed. 

 ii. 472. 8. orientate, Linn. Sp. PL ed. 1, 634 ; Lam. Illustr. iii. 82, t. 528 ; 

 Gsertn. Fruct. t. 110 ; Endl. in Linnsea, vii. 30 ; Ohamisso in Linnsea, 

 vii. 72:! : Bernh. in Linnsea, xvi. 37, 42 ; Hiern in Gat. At'r. PL Welw. 

 i. 797. S. edute, Hort. ex Steud. Norn. ed. i. 769. S. oleiferum, 

 Moench, Meth. Suppl. 174. S. brasiliense, Veil. FJ. Flum. 264, vi. t. 90. 

 Anthadenia sesamoides, Van Houtte in Hort. Vanhoutt. fasc. i. 4, and 

 in Fl. des Serres, ii. (Avril 1846) 10, t. 6 .Volkameria orientalis, O. Kuntze, 

 Rev. Gen. PL ii. 481. V. sesamodes, O. Kuntze, I.e. 482. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia : Galam, Roger, 140 ! and without precise 

 localitv, Heudelot ! Sierra Leone, Don. Northern Nigeria: Nupe, Barter? 

 1260 ! 



Nile Land. Nubia : Korkos Island between Berber and Khartoum, Schwein- 

 furth, 74S ! Abyssinia: Jelajerenne, Sehvmper, 620 ! Kordofan, Kotschy, 181! 

 194 ! Pfund, 368 ! By the" White Nile, Petkerick ! Uganda : Kavirondo ; 

 Mumias, Scott-Elliot, 7058 ! in various localities, 4100-6000 ft., Whyte ! 



Lower Guinea. Lower Congo : Kisantu, Gillet, 353. Angola : Libongo ; by 

 the Lifune River, Welwitsch, 1639 ; Cazengo ; near Cacula, Welwitsch, 1640 I 

 Golungo Alto; by the Cuango River, near Sange, Welwitsch, 1688! Pungo- 

 Andongo; near the Cuanzn River, near Sansamanda, and in neglected fields near 

 Condo, Welwitsch, 1641. 



South Central. Congo Free State : plantations near Businga, Thonner? 

 115. 



Kozamb. Dist. German East Africa : Mininga, SpeTce cf Grant, 74 ! 

 Kilimanjaro, Johnston ! Rovuina River, Meller ! Portuguese East Africa : 

 Chriange, east of Lake Nyasa, Johnson, 332 ! British Central Africa : Nyasaland;. 

 Kafcunga, Scott .' 



Cultivated in many of the above localities and in most tropical and subtropical 

 countries for the oil which is extracted from the seeds, very probably of tropical 

 African origin. 



Engler {Jahrb. xxxii. 115) described a variety integerrimum, which appears to 

 be merely a stunted state, about 1 ft. high, with entire oblong leaves and short 

 capsules. It was collected by Ellenbeck in the Galla Country near Gallaboda-Jidda 

 at 4300-4600 ft., and by Pogge in the Congo Free State by the Lulua River. A 

 specimen collected by Whyte in Kavirondo, not far from Mumias at 4400 ft.,. 

 represents evidently the same condition. 



15. S. alatum, Thonn. in Schumach. <b Thonn. BesJcr. Guin. PI. 

 284. Stern erect, branched, 2-3 ft. high, more or less quadrangular 

 and 4-sulcate or almost terete, glandular in the upper part, soon 

 glabrescent. Leaves usually heteromorphic ; lower long-petioled 

 (petiole up to 4 in. long), digitately 5-(-3) foliolate or 5-(-3) partite ; 

 leaflets or segments linear-lanceolate, entire, acute or subacute, the 

 middle one the longest, 1-3 in. long, 1-4 lin. broad, more or less mealy- 

 glandular below, otherwise glabrous ; upper leaves and foliaceous bracts 

 undivided, lanceolate to finely linear, often less than 1 lin. broad, 



