76 XC. CONVOLVULACEE (BAKER AND RENDLE). | Seddera. 
expanded ; tips of midpetaline areas densely hairy. Stamens equal, 
glabrous ; filaments dilated at the base, with short rounded appendages. 
Ovary obovoid, upper portion hirsute ; style divided to the base; stigmas 
orbicular. Capsule 14 lin. in diam., splitting into 4 rigid valves. Seeds 
narrowly ovoid, blackish, glabrous, 1 lin. long.— Choisy in DC, Prodr. 
ix. 440; Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 88; Capua in Ann. Istit. Bot. 
Roma, viii, 221 (incl. varieties). Breweria argentea, Terrac. in Ann. Istit. 
Bot. Roma, v. 104. B. evolwuloides, Vatke in Linnea, xiii. 523, not of 
Choisy. B. latifolia, Hochst. 1.c.; Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 224. 
Cressa latifolia. T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. Suppl.i. 25 (excel. syn.). 
Nile Land. Macaur Island, on the Nubian coast, Schweinfurth, 2158! 
Eritrea : Bure Peninsula, Hildebrandt, 7418! Ailet, Ehrenberg ; Massowa, Sambar. 
Hildebrandt, 733! Mount Ghedem, near Massowa, 500-1000 ft., Sehweinfurth Sf 
Riva, 109! Hamftilah Bay, Terraciano, 19! Assaorta, numerous localities, Terra- 
ciano & Pappi. Abyssinia: near Gageros, 3500 ft., Schimper, 2287 ! 
Also in Socotra, and through Arabia to Scind and the Punjab. 
7. S. humilis, Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 89, A dwarf much- 
branched undershrub, scarcely 4 in. high, clothed all over with grey 
somewhat silky hairs. Leaves dense, subsessile, small, broadly elliptic, 
acute or mucronate; lower shorter, suborbicular. Flowers solitary, 
axillary, forming a spike; pedicels short, bearing above the middle a 
pair of minute subulate bracteoles. Sepals subequal, ovate, acute, 14 lin. 
long. Corolla white, more than twice as long as the calyx, broadly 
funnel-shaped, almost entire ; midpetaline areas sparsely silky outside. 
Stamens included. Styles reaching to the tip of the corolla; stigmas 
small, flattened above. Capsule very small, acute, 4-valved, silky at 
the apex ; seeds glabrous. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Masailand, Fischer, 29. 
8. S. arabica, Choisy in DC. Prodr. ix. 441. A much-branched 
under-shrub ; branchlets slender, clothed with yellowish pubescence. 
Leaves elliptic, subsessile, 4-7 lin. long, obtuse, mucronate, rounded 
at the base, pubescent on both surfaces. Peduncles axillary, $—1 in. 
long, usually 1-flowered ; bracteoles linear, minute. Sepals subequal, 
elliptic to obovate, coriaceous with herbaceous acute apex, pubescent, 
barely 2 lin. long. Corolla twice as long as the calyx; expanded limb 
3 lin. in diam. Capsule globose, 4-valved, 2 lin. long. Styles free from 
the base.—Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 90; Capua in Ann. Istit. 
Bot. Roma, viii. 220 (incl. vars.). Breweria oxycarpa, Hochst. ex 
A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 76; Schweinf. Beitr. FI. Aethiop. 92 ; Vatke 
in Linnea, xlili. 524. B. evolvuloides, R. Br. in Salt, Abyss. Append. 
Ixiv. not of Choisy. Cressa arabica, Forsk. F). Kgypt.-Arab. 54. 
Nile Land. Nubia: Erkowit Mountain, Schweinfurth, 252! Hor Tamanib, 
Lord! Eritrea: Bogos, Hildebrandt, 658B! near Saati, Schweinfurth & Riva, 
591! Habab, Terraciano & Pappi, 602, 603, 649, 739, 880, 909 ; Mensa, Terra- 
ciano & Pappi, 2260; Assaorta, Terraciano § Pappi, 18; Samhar, Terraciano f 
Pappi, 71; Abyssinia: hills near Adganna, Schimper, 1015! near Dehli-Diken®, 
4000 ft., Schimper ; and without precise locality, Salt ! 
Also in Arabia. 
