Seddera. — Calystegia. T61 
1060. Seddera latifolia Hochst. and Steud. in Flora (1844). 
Beilage. 8 tab. 5 fig. B—C. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Kg.. 
Supplem. p. 758. — Choisy in DC. Prodrom. IX, p. 440. — Breweria 
argentea Terrac. in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma V, p. 104. — Breweria 
evolouloides Vatke in Linnaea XLUI, p. 523 not of Choisy. — 
A much-branched, low undershrub with slender, woody branchlets, 
clothed with dense, short, velvety white pubescence. Leaves broadly 
elliptic, rigidulous, shortly stalked, 5—8 mm 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, 5 mm long, back 
pubescent like the leaves. Corolla not exceeding the calyx; limh 
5 mm in diam. when expanded; tips of midpetaline areas densely 
hairy. Stamens equal, glabrous; filaments dilated at the hase, with 
short rounded appendages. Ovary obovoid, upper portion hirsute; 
style divided to the base; stigmas orbicular. Capsule 27/, mm in 
diam., splitting into 4 rigid valves. Seeds narrowly ovoid, blaekish, 
glabrous, 5 mm long. — Flow. March to April. 
D. a. mer. Wady Abti Agag, North of Aswan (ochwenntrn: 
Also known from Tropical Africa, Socotra and through Arabia to 
Seind and the Pundjab. 
435. (3.) Calystegia R. Br. 
Sepals subequal or the inner ones rather smaller. Corolla 
usually large and showy, campanulate or funnel-shaped, slightly lobed. 
Stamens inserted low down in the corolla-tube, not exserted; filaments 
dilated at the base, anthers oblong. Disk prominent, annular. Ovary 
l1-celled or with an imperfect septum; style filiform; stigmas two, 
flattened, ovate or elliptic. Capsule usually 1-celled, 4-valved. Seeds 4, 
glabrous; cotyledons broad, plicate, often bifid. — Prostrate or twining 
herbs. Leaves usually entire. Pedunceles axillary, 1-flowered; bracts 
foliaceous, usually large. 
Species 8 or more, inhabiting the temperate and subtropical zones of 
both hemispheres. 
1061. Calystegia hederacca Wall. in Roxb. Flor. Ind. (ed Carey) II 
(1824), p. 94. — Choisy in DC. Prodrom. IX, p. 434. — An annual, 
with slender climbing stems. Leaves long petioled.: deltoid-hastate. 
2-21/, em long, with large spreading or deflexed entire or toothed 
basal auricles, membranous, glabrous. Flowers solitary; peduncle 
long, often exceeding the leaves; bracts foliaceous, ovate, obtuse. 
