74 XC. CONVOLVULACE^E ( BAKER AND RENDLE). \8eddera. 



1. S. somalensis, H oilier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 90. A much- 

 branched shrub ; branchlets slender, rigid, densely clothed with soft 

 whitish hairs. Leaves rigid, elliptic, obtuse, mucronate, 3—4 lin. 

 long, subsessile, densely pubescent on both sides. Flowers axillary, 

 solitary, on peduncles as long or longer than the leaves ; bracteoles 

 minute. Sepals rather rigid, obovate, with acute herbaceous apex, 

 pubescent, subequal, 2 lin. long. Corolla 8 lin. long ; expanded limb 

 4 lin. in diam. ; filaments glabrous, the dilated base inconspicuously 

 appendaged. Styles free from the base. Ovary ovoid, hairy at the top. 

 Capsule ovoid -globose, 2 lin. in diam., splitting by 4 thin rigid valves. 

 Seeds blackish, glabrous. — Breiveria sonialensis, Vatke in Linnsea, xliii. 

 523. B. hispida, Franchet, Sert. Somal. 43. 



Nile Land. Somaliland : Serut Mountains, near Maid, 5000 ft., Jlildebrandt* 

 1562 ! Adda Galla, James ty Thrupp ! Daira, Donaldson Smith! 



2. S. intermedia, Ilochst. & Steud. in Flora, 1844, Beil. 8. An 

 imdershrub, about a foot high ; branches spreading, with whitish 

 silky hairs ; branchlets subspinose, terete. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, 

 subacute, 3-4 lin. long, sessile, more or less silvery-silky. Flowers 3-4 r 

 distant at the end of the branchlets, sessile in the axils of the upper 

 leaves. Sepals ovate-acuminate, 1 lin. long, whitish silky on the outside. 

 Corolla scarcely twice as long as the calyx, tubular-funnel-shaped, sub- 

 villous at the apex. — Choisy in DC. Proclr. ix. 440. Breweria intermedia, 

 Hochst. 1. c. ; Terraciano in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, v. 104. 



Nile Land. Eritrea : Ferelian Volcano, Hamfilah Bay, Terraciano. 



3. S. spinescens, Peter in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 89. A dwarf sar- 

 mentose undershrub, with a thick woody base ; young branchlets and 

 leaves clothed with yellowish silky hairs, the former becoming leafless 

 and spmescent at the end. Leaves very small, not exceeding 2^ lin. 

 long to about 1 lin. broad, sessile, ovate-lanceolate to elliptic, compli- 

 cate and recurved at the tip, growing gradually smaller upwards and 

 obsolete towards the end of the branchlets. Flowers very small, 

 solitary in the axils of the leaves, sessile. Sepals equal, subelliptic, 

 narrowing to the base, acute, 1^ lin. long. Corolla silky, very little 

 longer- than the calyx, less than 2 lin. Stamens subequal, glabrous, 

 base dilated into a pair of short lateral auric es. Ovary ovoid, hirsute 

 at the apex. Style divided nearly to the base ; stigmas hardly clavate, 

 Capsule very small, shortly ovoid, barely lh lin. in diam., silky at the 

 apex, 4-valvecl. Seeds 4, glabrous, dark brown. — Breweria (?) sp., Vatke 

 in Linnsea, xliii. 524. 



Nile Land. Somaliland : near Yafir, in the Ahl Mountains, 6500 ft., Hilde- 

 Irandt, 890 ! 



4. S. hirsuta, Dammer ex Hallier f. in Ann. Istit. Bot. Ro?na, 

 vii. 224. A spiny, branched undershrub, 8-12 in. high, in its- 

 foliaceous bracts and sepals showing an affinity with S. capensis, but 

 in habit approaching nearer >S. latifolia. Branches strict, virgate, erecto- 

 patent from a common stem or the outer decumbent, woody, terete,. 



