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9. S. capensis, //allier f. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. vi. 529. An under- 
shrub with tufted prostrate to saberect stems under a foot long, 
clothed with lax ascending brown hairs. Leaves nearly sessile, ellip- 
tic to ovate-elliptic, 6-9 lin. long, obtuse, often shortly mucronate, 
surfaces and margins more or less pilose, especially on the veins. 
Flowers solitary, on short axillary peduncles; bracts lanceolate, as long 
as the calyx. Calyx 4 lin. long; sepals herbaceous, becoming coriaceous 
at the base, ovate-lanceolate, the inner lanceolate, acute, bearing long 
hairs on the back and margin. Corolla broadly funnel-shaped, pinkish- 
white, 6 lin. long; midpetaline areas densely hairy on the limb. 
Stamens included, subequal; filaments glabrous, gradually broadening 
at the base, not dentate. Ovary hairy at the top; style branched 
nearly from the base; stigmas subpeltate, bilobed. Capsule glabrous, 
shorter than the calyx, 2} lin. long. Seeds blackish, glabrous.--Rendle 
in Journ. Bot. 1902,189.  Lvolvulus capensis, E. Meyer in Drége, Zwei 
Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 46; Choisy in DC. Prodr. ix. 444; Hallier 
f.in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 86. Breweria capensis, Baker in Dyer, FI. 
Cap. iv. ii. 80. 
Mozamb. Dist. Rhodesia: Salisbury, Rand, 126! Gardner ! 
Also in South Africa. 
10. S. suffruticosa, Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 88. Suffruti- 
cose; stems erect or spreading, leafy, 1 ft. or more long, with minute 
adpressed hairs. Leaves shortly petioled, firm, oblong, shortly acute, 
about 1 in. long, densely hairy like the stem on both surfaces. Flowers 
in few-flowered dense subsessile axillary cymes, rarely solitary. 
Calyx hairy, 24 lin. long. Sepals with an acute herbaceous apex from 
a tougher ovate base. Corolla white, 3 lin. long, subentire, midpetaline 
areas sparingly hirsute. Stamens reaching nearly to the top of the lobes. 
Capsule broadly ovoid, sparingly hirsute at the apex, about 1} lin. in 
diam. ; seeds 4, black, glabrous.—Hallier f.in Bull. Herb. Boiss. vi. 531. 
Seddera mucronata, Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 88.  Breweria 
suffruticosa, Schinz in Verh. Bot. Ver. Brandenb. xxx. 275. B. baccha- 
roides, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 68. B. sessiliflora, Baker, l.c. 
Convolwulus mucronatus, Engl. Jahrb. x. 246. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Umba Valley, Smith/ Portuguese 
East Africa : Zambesi Valley between Tette and the coast, and between Senna and 
Lupata, Kirk! British Central Africa: Ngamiland ; Kwebe, 3000 ft., Lugard, 
184! Mrs. Lugard, 203! 
Var. hirsutissima, Hallier f. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. vi. 531. Plant more robust 
and more densely hairy ; leaves generally larger than in the species, to nearly 13 in. 
long by 1 in. broad.—Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 725. 8. conglomerata, Hallier 
f. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. v. 1008. Breweria conglomerata, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 
1894, 68. 
Lower Guinea. Angola; Loanda and Barra do Dande, Welwitsch, 6160! 
Loanda, Gossweiler, 150! 375! 
11. S. Welwitschii, Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 88. A 
delicate undershrub with long slender flexuose branching prostrate 
stems, thinly clothed with short adpressed hairs, Leaves some- 
