﻿Breiveria.] convoltulace^ (Baker & Wriglit). 81 



natus, Ungl. in Engl. Jalirh. x. 246. Seddera sufruticosa, HaUier 

 f.in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 88, and Bull. Herb. Boiss. v. 1008, 1010; 

 vi. 531. 8. mucronata, Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrh. xviii. 88. 



Vak. $, hirsutissima (C. H. Wrisrht) ; more robust t\\w the type and densely 

 clothed with brownish hairs. B. conglomerata, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 68. 

 Seddera conglomerata, Hallier f. in Bull. Herh. Boiss. v. 1008. S. suffruticosa, 

 var. Mrsutissima, Hallier f. I.e. yi. 531: Hiern in Cat. Afr. PL Welw. i. 

 723. 



Kalahaei Region : Griqnaland West, Herbert Div. ; St. Clair, Belmont, 

 Orpen, 115 ! TransvaHl ; Marico district, Holuh ! Tar. ^ : Transvaal ; Bosch- 

 veld at Klippan, Rehmann, 5256 I 



Also in Tropical Africa. 



IX. FALKIA, Linn. 



(Falckia, Thunb.) 



SejKils 5, subequal, broad, leafy, accrescent, joined at the very- 

 base. Corolla broadly fuunel-sbaped ; lobes very short or distinct. 

 Stamens 5, inserted low down in the corolla-tube ; anthers roundish. 

 Ovary with deep erect lobes, each containing a single ovule ; styles 2, 

 subulate, gynobasic ; stigma capitate. i'Vuii membranous, with 4 

 or, by abortion, fewer lobes. 



Dwarf prostrate matted perennial herbs, with small entire petioled leaves, and 

 small solitary flowers peduucled in their axils. Habit very like that of 

 Bichondra. 



DiSTElB, All South African, with one species extending to Eritrea. 



CoroHa twice as long as the calyx, obscurely lobed : 

 Leaves orbicular, cordate at the base; calyx 



, lobes long and broad (1) repens. 



Leaves oblong, not cordate at the base ; calyx- 

 lobes short ■- (2) oblonga. 



Corolla slightly longer than the calyx, distinctly 

 lobed 0"^) dichondroides. 



1. F. repens (Linn. f. Suppl. 211); stems firm, slender, terete, 

 trailing sometimes to a length of 6 in. or more, glabrous or when 

 young minutely pubescent ; leaves orbicular or broadly ovate, 3-6 lin. 

 long and broad, distinctly cordate at the base, obtuse or faintly 

 emarginate; petiole usually as long as or longer than the blade; 

 peduncle 1 -flowered, about as long as the leaf and petiole ; flower- 

 calyx 2-3 lin. long, glabrous or silky pubescent; lobes at first 

 oblong, becoming ovate and deltoid and crisped on the edge when 

 mature ; corolla twice as long as the calyx, thallowly lobed, pinkish, 

 glabrous ; fruit-lobes obovoid, membranous, 1 lin. long, hidden by 

 the closed calyx. Bot. Mag. t. 2328 ; Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 257 ; 

 Choisy in DC. Prod. ix. 451 ; Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 84, 

 ijicl. var. sericea. Falckia repens, Thunb. Nov. Fl. Gen. i. 17. Con- 

 voIduIus Falckia, Thunb. Prodr. 3a; Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 168. 



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