798 xciii. PEDALiACE^. [Sesa/numi 



stem straight, sparingly branched towards the top ; leaves obovate- 

 oblong, the upper ones obouneate, all obtuse and more or less 

 emarginate at the apex, membranous, somewhat rigid, deep green and 

 rugulose above, clothed beneath with a lax or rather dense adpressed 

 whitish felt or hoary with a loose coarse tomentum ; flowers very large 

 and handsome, brilliantly purple or rosy violet, very like a foxglove, 

 drooping ; seeds obovate, 4-edged, delicately reticulate-wrinkled on 

 the faces. In sandy woody thickets between the streams Lutete and 

 Luxillo, near Fundo de Cazella, fl. and unripe fr. 18 Oct. 1856 ; from 

 Cazella to the right bank of the river Cuanza, Catete, etc., fl. and fr. 

 lieginning of Jan. 1867 ; also near Lombe, very sparingly, fl. and fr. 

 March 1857. No. 1645, and Coll. Carp. 169. 



This is the Sesamum, which, " far surpassing all other herbaceous 

 plants in splendour, size and richness of blossomB,'.appears prominently 

 in all the less dense places of the wood " ; see Welw. in Joum. Linn. 

 ■Soo. iii. p. 153 (1859). 



4. S. digitaloides Welw. ex Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. 

 p. 454 (1896). 



MosSAMEDES. — An annual or biennial herb, erect, 4 to 5 ft. high, 

 divaricately branched from the base, pubescent ; flowers handsome, 

 of a deep rosy purple colour. In bushy gravelly maritime places at 

 the ban^ of the rivers Giraul and Bero, usually flooded ; fl. and fr. 

 July 1859. No. 1647. 



5. S. antirrhinoides Welw. ms. in Herb, ex H. Schinz (Aschers.) 

 in Verb. Bot. Brandenb. xxx. p. 183 (1888). 



Volhomieria cmtirrhinodes O. Kuntze, I.e., p. 482. 



An erect, branched, annual herb, -J to 3 ft. high, rarely taller, 

 hirsute with spreading hairs, viscid-glandular, sparingly 

 branched ; stem and branches obtusely quadrangular, more or 

 less leafy ; leaves opposite or subopposite, undivided, entire or 

 remotely dentieulate-repand, narrowly elliptical or sublanceolate, 

 obtuse and apiculate or somewhat pointed at the apex, wedge- 

 shaped at the base, membranous-herbaceous, 1 to 2 in. long by 

 ^ to 1^ in. broad; petioles ranging up to f in. long; flowers 

 axillary, solitary, about 1 in. long ; peduncle about ^ in. long in 

 flower, about j- or i in. long and thickened especially upwards 

 in fruit ; bracts 2, at the base of the peduncle and nearly 

 ■equalling or rather exceeding it (one linear-filiform and the 

 ■other spathulate), with a perforated globular apparently abortive 

 flower-bud or large gland (nectary) between them ; calyx-segments 

 narrowly lanceolate, t to J in. long ; corolla rosy violet or purple, 

 minutely glandular and thinly pilose outside, campanulate-tubular, 

 the tube about ^ in. in diameter at the oblique throat, the limb 

 about I in. in diameter; capsule oblong, roundedly tetragonal, 

 somewhat compressed, 4-furrowed longitudinally, acuminate- 

 beaked, hirsute, glandular, f to 1 in. long (including the beak 

 ■of \ in.), about 1 in. broad, loculicidally 2-valved ; seeds 

 numerous, obovate, compressed, -Jj,- in. long, black, with a rather 

 broad uninterrupted projecting border or narrow wing round 

 «ach face, foveolate-rugulose within the borders. 



MossAMEDES.— In bushy sandy places at the banks of the river 



