386 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



fascicled, shortly pedicelled. Sepals connate in a small 5-partite calyx. 

 Corolla 2-lipped ; tube ventricose ; lobes rounded, those of the upper 

 lip rather smaller than the others. Stamens 4, didynamous, included ; 

 anthers sagittate, cells sub-parallel, distinct. Carpels connate in a 

 2-celled ovary ; cells soon divided into two chambers by a false dissepi- 

 ment intruded between the placentas ; ovules many, 1- seriate in each 

 chamber ; style filiform ; stigma 2-lobed. Fruit an oblong or ovoid 

 capsule, usually 4-angled and 4:-grooved, 4:-chambered, loculicidally 

 2-valved. Seeds many, obliquely oblong, somewhat compressed, 

 foveolate. — Distrib. Species 10, Africa and S.E. Asia. 



Sesamum indicum, DC. Prod. IX. 250. An erect pubescent or 

 puberulous herb, 1 to 2 feet high. Leaves oblong or ovate, variable, the 

 lower often lobed or pedatisect ; the raiddle ovate, toothed ; the upper 

 often narrow-oblong, sub-entke ; blade 3 to 5 in. long; petioles -5 to 

 2 in. Floivers axillary, solitary rarely 2-3-nate ; pedicels -5 in. long. 

 Calyx-lobes -25 in. long, lanceolate. Corolla pubescent, 1"25 in. long, 

 whitish or with red, or purplish, or yellow marks. Capsule oblong, 

 tetragonous, erect, scabrid-pilose, 1 in. long, uniformly "25 in. wide 

 throughout ; apex usually shortly acuminate ; dehiscence usually by 

 2 valves half-way down, sometimes to the base, and sometimes each 

 valve subsequently divided. Seeds brown, smooth. Wall. Cat. 6408 ; 

 Wight 111. 163 ; Hook, f . Flor. Brit. Ind. IV. 387 ; Bot. Mag. t. 1688. 

 S. orientale, Linn. Sp. PL 634; Gaertn. Fruct. II. 132 t. 110; Lamk lU. 

 t. 528 ; Eoxb. Flor. Ind. III. 100. S. luteum, Eetz Obs. YI. 31 ; DC. 

 Prod. IX. 250. S. occidentale, Her. &Eeg., DC. Prod. IX. 250; Thw. 

 Enum. 442. Eumph. Herb. Amb. t. 76, f. 1. Eheede Hort. Malab. 

 IX. tt. 54, 55. 



Pbnang : Wallich ! King ! Perak : Wray ! Scortechini ! Malacca : 

 Derry ! Johoee : Fielding ! Singapoeb : Hullett ! — Distrib. Culti- 

 vated in all hot countries. 



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