Seddera. | XC. CONVOLVULACE& (BAKER AND RENDLE). 75 
sparsely pubescent, like the leaves and bracts, with spreading forked 
hairs, becoming spiny at the tip after flowering, leafless in fruit. 
Leaves sessile, erect, up to 7 lin. long by 24 lin. broad, elliptic-lanceolate. 
mucronate, yellow-silky when young. Flowers axillary, sessile, solitary 
or geminate ; bracts leaf-like, about 2 lin. long and ? lin. broad. 
Sepals herbaceous, green, the 2 outer 34 lin, long, produced from a 
firmer ovate convex yellow-hirsute base, 1 lin. broad, into a long 
foliaceous linear-subspathulate apex; the 3 inner shorter. Corolla 
white, about 4 lin. long, tawny-silky on the outside, except on the com- 
missural segments, deeply 5-fid; lobes subovate. Filaments with a 
small crenulate stipule-like tooth on each side of the glabrous base. 
Ovary densely hirsute; style bifid nearly to the base with subequal 
branches ; stigmas 2, minute, subreniform-peltate. Capsule very shortly 
stalked, barely 3 lin. long, glabrous, 4-valved. Seeds 4, barely 14 lin. 
long, trigonous, glabrous, dirty-brown. 
Nile Land. Galla Country: near the River Dana, at Agualedoio, Riva, 465 ; 
and at Dolo, Riva, 1189; Malka Korokoro, near the River Tana, Thomas, 94. 
». S. virgata, Hochst. d: Steud. in Flora, 1844, Beil. 8, t.5, figs. 1-10. 
A much-branched undershrub; branches long, very slender, clothed 
with adpressed white hairs. Leaves distant, sessile, linear to narrowly 
linear-lanceolate, ascending, margins sometimes convolute, $—1 in. long, 
thinly clothed with adpressed white hairs. Flowers arranged in sparse 
racemes at the end of the branchlets; pedicels short, bracteate at the 
base by reduced leaves. Sepals rigid with herbaceous tip, obovate, 
subacute, subequal, 14 lin. long. Corolla broadly funnel-shaped, 3 lin, 
long, densely hairy on the midpetaline areas. Base of filaments triangu- 
lar, not appendaged, glabrous ; styles free almost from the base ; stigmas 
suborbicular. Ovary ovoid, hairy at the top. Capsule globose, 2 lin. in 
diam., splitting into 4 thinly rigid valves. Seeds black, glabrous.— 
Choisy in DC. Prodr. ix. 440; Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 90 ; 
Capua in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, viii. 221. Breweria virgata, Vatke 
in Linnea, xliii. 523. 
Nile Land. Nubia: Wadi Omareg, Schweinfurth, 419! Uaratab Mountain, 
Schweinfurth, 2179! ritrea: Hamfila Bay, Terraciano, 58; Samhar, Terraciano 
§ Pappi, 27,46; Assaorta, Pappi, 14, 29, 75; near Saati, Schweinfurth § Riva, 
580! Bure Peninsula, Hildebrandt, 732! 
Also in Arabia. 
6. S. latifolia, Hochst. d Steud. in Flora, 1844, Beil. 8, t. 5, figs. 
B, ©. A much-branched, low under-shrub with slender, woody 
branchlets, clothed with dense, short, velvety-white pubescence. Leaves 
broadly elliptic, rigidulous, shortly stalked, 2~4 lin. long, clothed with 
short adpressed white hairs above and beneath, apex and base generally 
rounded, the former sometimes inconspicuously mucronate. Flowers 
subsessile, solitary in the axils of the leaves or aggregated into short 
bracteated terminal spikes. Sepals subequal, obovate, coriaceous and 
rigid with acute herbaceous apex, 2 lin. long, back pubescent like the 
leaves. Corolla not exceeding the calyx; limb 2 lin. in diam. when 
