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E. ALSINOIDES L. Lc. 392. 



British East Africa; Uganda, G. F.Scott Elliot, 189S-i,no.7iiA. 

 Rhodesia ; Bulawayo, Dr. Rand, no. 127, Jan. 1898. 



Seddera capensis Hall. f. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. vi. 529 (1898). 

 Rhodesia ; Salisbury, l)r. Rand, no. 126, Dec. 1897. 

 S. soMALENsis Hall. f. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xviii. 90 (1893). 

 Somalilaud; Darar, Br. Donaldson Smith, Sept. 1894. 



Convolvulus sagittatus Thunb. var. parviflorus subvar. abys- 

 siNicus Hall. f. I.e. 533. 



Somaliland; Habrawal, Dr. Donaldson Smith, 1899. British East 

 Africa; Nyanza, G. F. Scott Elliot, 1893-4, no. 7145. Rhodesia; 

 Salisbury, Dr. Rand, Sept. 1898, no. 510. 



C. liniformis, sp. nov. Herba pusilla glabra, caulibus ascen- 

 dentibus teuuibus ramosis ; folds breviter petiolatis linearibus basi 

 incunspicue auriculatis, apice breviter acutis ; floribus solitariis, 

 pedunculis folia paullo excedentibus, bracteolis parvis lanceolatis ; 

 sepalis sub£equalibus, oblougis, breviter mucronatis, chartaceis '; 

 corolla calycem 2|-plo excedente, rosea, late infundibulare, areis 

 mesopetalis male limitatis ; staminibus inclusis ; stiginate lineari- 

 oblongo ; fructu . . . 



A small low-growing plant, the specimens consisting of slender 

 ascending shoots with spreading-ascending branches ; the longest 

 shoot is 10 cm. high, and their thickness is from -5 to -7 mm. 

 Leaves 8-15 mm. lung including a stalk of about 2 mm., 1-5 mm.* 

 or less in width. Peduncles 2 cm. or less in length, bracteoles 



2 mm. long, 3-4 mm. below the calyx. Sepals 7-8 mm. loug by 

 2'5-3-5 mm. broad. Corolla 2 cm. long, and as broad at the mouth. 



Approaches the slender-leaved forms of 0. sar/ittatus Thunb., 

 but is distmguished by its uniformly Iniear leaves with only a trace 

 of auricles at the base, and by its larger flowers. 



Hab. South Africa; Zeyher, 1846, no. 1220; Schoonstroom 

 River, Burke (no. 283, in herb. Trin. Coll. Dublm). 



0. Hilsenbergiana, sp. nov. SuftVuticosa volubilis cauHbus 

 gracihbus subferrugme pilosulis ; foliis cordatis obtusis margine 

 crenulatis, petiolis venisque priecipue in pagina inferiore velut 

 peduncuUs subferrngine pilosulis; petiolo laminam sub^equante ; 

 pedunculis quam folia brevioribus uni- vel bi-Horis ; bracteolis 

 subulatis parvis; sepalis rotunde ellipticis breviter cuspidatis 

 chartaceis margine interdum quoque dorso plus minus subferrn- 

 gine pilosulis ; corolla calycem vix duplo excedente breviter et 

 late infundibuhforme, areis mesopetalis cum nervis 5 parallelis 

 delineatis sub apice pilosuhs ; staminibus inclusis, poUine leve 

 sphaeroido-tetrahediale; stigmate lineaii-obloni^'o ; pericarpio gla- 

 bro, capsula 2-valvata, semiuibus 2 nigns granulatis. 



The specimen consists of slender detached sparsely branching 

 shoots to 65 cm. loug, and barely reaching 2 mm. in thickness". 

 Leaves reaching 5*5 cm. long including a petiole of 2-5 cm., by 



3 cm. broad, becoming gradually smaller as we ascend the upper 

 part of the shoot, almost glabrous on the upper surface, pilosulose 



