74 _ XC. CONVOLVULACEE (BAKER AND RENDLE). [ Seddera. 
1. S. somalensis, Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 90. A much- 
branched shrub ; branchlets slender, rigid, densely clothed with soft 
whitish hairs. Leaves rigid, elliptic, obtuse, mucronate, 3—4 lin. 
long, subsessile, densely pubescent on both sides. Flowers axillary, 
solitary, on peduncles as long or longer than the leaves; bracteoles 
minute. Sepals rather rigid, obovate, with acute herbaceous apex, 
pubescent, subequal, 2 lin. long. Corolla 3 lin. long ; expanded limb 
4 lin. in diam.; filaments glabrous, the dilated base inconspicuously 
appendaged. Styles free from the base. Ovary ovoid, hairy at the top. 
Capsule ovoid-globose, 2 lin. in diam., splitting by 4 thin rigid valves. 
Seeds blackish, glabrous.—Breweria somalensis, Vatke in Linnea, xiii. 
523. B. hispida, Franchet, Sert. Somal, 43. 
Wile Land. Somaiiland: Serut Mountains, near Maid, 5000 ft., Hildebrandt, 
1562 ! Adda Galla, James & Thrupp! Darra, Donaldson Smith ! 
2. S. intermedia, Hochst. d: Steud. in Flora, 1844, Beil. 8. An- 
undershrub, about a foot high; branches spreading, with whitish 
silky hairs; branchlets subspinose, terete. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, 
subacute, 3—4 lin. long, sessile, more or less silvery-silky. Flowers 3-4, 
distant at the end of the branchlets, sessile in the axils of the upper 
leaves. Sepals ovate-acuminate, 1 lin. long, whitish silky on the outside. 
Corolla scarcely twice as long as the calyx, tubular-funnel-shaped, sub- 
villous at the apex.—Choisy in DC. Prodr. ix. 440. Breweria intermedia, 
Hochst. |. c.; Terraciano in Ann, Istit. Bot. Roma, v. 104. 
Nile Land. Eritrea: Ferehan Volcano, Hamfilah Bay, Terraciano. 
3. S. spimescens, Peter in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 89. A dwarf sar- 
mentose undersbrub, with a thick woody base; young branchlets and 
leaves clothed with yellowish silky hairs, the former becoming leafless 
and spinescent at the end. Leaves very small, not exceeding 24 lin. 
long to about 1 lin. broad, sessile, ovate-lanceolate to elliptic, compli- 
cate and recurved at the tip, growing gradually smaller upwards and 
obsolete towards the end of the branchlets. Flowers very small, 
solitary in the axils of the leaves, sessile. Sepals equal, subelliptic, 
narrowing to the base, acute, 14 lin. long. Corolla silky, very little 
longer than the calyx, less than 2 lin. Staméns subequal, glabrous, 
base dilated into a pair of short lateral auric’es. Ovary ovoid, hirsute 
at the apex. Style divided nearly to the base; stigmas hardly clavate, 
Capsule very small, shortly ovoid, barely 14 lin. in diam., silky at the 
apex, 4-valved. Seeds 4, glabrous, dark brown.— Breweria (?) sp., Vatke 
in Linnea, xiii, 524. 
Wile Land. Somaliland: near Yafir, in the Ahl Mountains, 6500 ft., Hilde- 
brandt, 890! 
4. S. hirsuta, Dammer ex Hallier f. in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, 
vii. 224. A spiny, branched undershrub, 8-12 in. high, in_ its 
foliaceous bracts and sepals showing an affinity with S. capensis, but 
in habit approaching nearer S. latifolia. Branches strict, virgate, erecto- 
patent from a common stem or the outer decumbent, woody, terete 
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