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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, loculieidally 
2-valved. Seeds many, obliquely oblong, somewhat compressed, 
foveolate. — Distbib. 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 middle ovate, toothed ; the upper 
often narrow-oblong, sub-entire ; 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, l - 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. Plor. Brit. Ind. IY. 387 ; Bot. Mag. t. 1688. 
S. orientale, Linn. Sp. PI. 634; Gaertn. Pruct. II. 132 t. 110; Lamk 111. 
t. 528 ; Boxb. Plor. Ind. III. 100. S. luteum, Betz Obs. YI. 31 ; DC. 
Prod. IX. 250. S. occidental, Her. &Beg., DC. Prod. IX. 250; Tbw. 
Enum. 442. Bumph. Herb. Amb. t. 76, f. 1. Bheede Hort. Malab. 
IX. tt. 54, 55. 
Penang : Wallich I King ! Peeak : Wray ! Scortechini ! Malacca : 
Derry! J ohoee : Fielding ! Singapoee : Hullett ! — Distkib. Culti- 
vated in all hot countries. 
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