55G xcvii. pedaline^e (stapf). [Sesamum* 



numerous, usually longer than the ioternodes, linear-oblong to sub- 

 lanceolate, rarely elliptic- or ovate-oblong, rounded, subemarginate or 

 sometimes acute at the apex, often mucronulate, narrowed at the base,, 

 entire or subrepand with wavy margins, 2-4 in. long, A— 1J in. broad f 

 deep green and sparsely pubescent or almost glabrous above, whitish,, 

 subtomentose and mealy-glandular below, rather firm, nervation im- 

 pressed above, slightly raised below ; petioles very short or hardly any ;. 

 upper leaves passing into the similar foliaceous lower bracts. Upper 

 bracts linear, very narrow, acuminate, rapidly decreasing in size. 

 Pedicels very short, at length up to 3 lin. long, 2-bracteolate at the 

 base; nectaries sessile. Calyx -1- to over \ in. long, pubescent ; seg- 

 ments lanceolate, subulate-acuminate. Corolla brilliant violet-purple,. 

 2 to over '2h in. long, obliquely campanulate, more or less pubescent ;. 

 throat up to 1 in. wide ; lowest lobe suborbicular, up to 1 in. in diam. 

 Capsule 10-12 lin. long, 2-2J lin. broad, obtusely quadrangular and 

 4-sulcate, finely pubescent or glabrescent, beak short, broad. Seeds- 

 blackish, 1—1 J lin. long, margins acute, faces radially rugose, side& 

 pitted.— Hiern in Cat. Afr. PL Welw. i. 797 ; Engl. Pfi. Ost-Afr. C. 

 365, and Bot. Jahrb. xix. 158, and xxviii. 483 ; Dur. & Schinz,. 

 Etudes Fl. Congo, i. 215 ; De Wild. & Durand, Reliq. Dewevr. 173. 

 /$'. macranthurri, Oliver in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix, 131, t. 84 ; Engl. PfL 

 Ost-Afr. A, 64 ; var. angusiifolium, Oliver, I.e. Volkameria angolensis,, 

 O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PL ii. 482. 



Nile Land. Uganda: Buddu District; Dumn, 5000 ft., Dawe, 5 ! 



Lower Guinea. Angola : Pungo Anclongo ; various places, Welioitsch? 

 1615 ! JMalatige, Mechoic, 411 ; Pogge, 297. 



South Central. Congo Free State : Goia Kapopa, near the Lualaba River,. 

 Pogge, 99S ; Lulua River, Pogge, 299 : Kasongo, Dewivre, 991. 



Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Urundi, Scott-Elliot, 8250 ! Itolio, 

 Stuhlmann, 924; between Kagehi and Utunda, Stuhlmann, 3480 ; Usui, Spelce Sf 

 Grant, 201 ! Usaramo ; Mnhonyera, Speke Sf Grant ! Kliutu Steppe, 1700 ft.,. 

 Goetze ! and without precise locality, Hannington ! British Central Africa : Urungu ; 

 Fwambo, 5250 ft., Nutt ! Carson, 71 ! Xya^aland ; Fort Hill, Johnston ! Masuka 

 Plateau, 6500-7000 ft., Wliyte ! Uvera, Kenyan, 19 ! Angoniland, Purves, 57 I 

 near Blant) re, Last ! near Zomha, Purves, 163 ! near Sani Hill, Kir 7c ! Sliire 

 Highlands, Buchanan, 338 ! 705 ! 



11. S. rigidum, Peyritsch in Wawra & Peyritsch, Bert. Eenguel. 32 

 (Site. Per. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Math. Nat. CI. xxxviii. 1859, 572). Stem 

 erect, 3-4 ft. high, stiff, branched from the base, terete, slender, like 

 the whole plant finely and spreadingly pubescent with few glands among 

 the hairs, at length glabrescent below ; branches long, rigid. Leaves 

 oblong-lanceolate or lanceolate to linear, rounded or subretuse at the 

 apex, cuneate at the base, quite entire, lower up to 1 + in. long and \ in. 

 broad, upper much shorter and narrower, pale below ; petiole 2-^ lin. 

 long. Bracts spathulate-linear, 4-3 lin. long. Pedicels slender, 1 |— 1 lin. 

 (in the fruiting state up to 8 lin.) long, minutely 2-bracteolate at the 

 base. Calyx 2A-3 lin. long ; segments linear. Corolla pale rose, punc- 

 tate in the throat, 7-10 lin. long ; lowest lobe 4-5 lin. long and broad., 

 whitish. Capsule ovate-oblong (or subglobose according to Peyritsch)^ 



