76 xc. convolvulace^e (baker and rendle). [Seddera. 



expanded ; tips of miclpetaline areas densely hairy. Stamens equal, 

 glabrous ; filaments dilated at the base, with short rounded appendages. 

 Ovary obovoid, upper portion hirsute ; style divided to the base ; stigmas 

 orbicular. Capsule H- lin. in diam., splitting into 4 rigid valves. Seeds 

 narrowly ovoid, blackish, glabrous, 1 lin. long. — Choisy in DC. Prodi-. 

 ix. 440 ; Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 88 ; Capua in Ann. Tstit. Bot. 

 Roma, viii. 221 (inch varieties). Breweria argentea, Terrac. in Ann. Istit. 

 Bot. Roma, v. 104. B. evolvuloides, Vatke in Linnaea, xliii. 523, not of 

 Choisy. B. latifolia,I£ochst. I.e.; Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 224. 

 Cressa latifolia. T. A nders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. Suppl.i. 25 (excl. syn.). 



KTile Xiand. Macaur Island, on the Nubian roast, Schweinfurth, 2158! 

 Eritrea : Bure Peninsula, Hildebrandt, 741b ! Ailet, JEhrenberg ; Massowa, Samhar. 

 Hildebrandt, 733 ! Mount Ghedem, near Massowa, 500-1000 ft., Schweinfurth Sf 

 Riva, 109 ! Hiiinnlali Bay, Terraciano, 19 ! Assaorta, numerous localities, Terra- 

 ciano Sf Pappi. Abyssinia : near Gugeros, 3500 ft., Schimper, 2287 ! 



Also in Socotra, and through Arabia to Scind and the Punjab. 



7. S. humilis, Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 89. A dwarf much- 

 branched undershrub, scarcely 4 in. high, clothed all over with grey 

 somewhat silky hairs. Leaves dense, subsessile, small, broadly elliptic, 

 acute or mucronatej lower shorter, suborbicular. Flowers solitary, 

 axillary, forming a spike ; pedicels short, bearing above the middle a 

 pair of minute subulate bracteoles. Sepals subequal, ovate, acute, 1-Hin. 

 long. Corolla white, more than twice as long as the calyx, broadly 

 funnel-shaped, almost entire ; midpetaline areas sparsely silky outside 

 Stamens included. Styles reaching to the tip of the corolla; stigmas 

 small, flattened above. Capsule very small, acute, 4-valved, silky at 

 the apex ; seeds glabrous. 



IVXozamb. Hist. German East Africa : Masailand, Fischer, 29. 



8. S. arabica, Choisy in DC. Prodr. ix. 441. A much-branched 

 under-shrub ; branchlets slender, clothed with yellowish pubescence. 

 Leaves elliptic, subsessile, 4-7 lin. long, obtuse, mucronate, rounded 

 at the base, pubescent on both surfaces. Peduncles axillary, |— 1 in. 

 long, usually 1 -flowered ; bracteoles linear, minute. Sepals subequal, 

 elliptic to obovate, coriaceous with herbaceous acute apex, pubescent, 

 barely 2 lin. long. Corolla twice as long as the calyx; expanded limb 

 3 lin. in diam. Capsule globose, 4-valved, 2 lin. long. Styles free from 

 the base. — Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 90 ; Capua in Ann, Istit. 

 Bot. Roma, viii. 220 (inch vars.). Breiveria oxycarpa, Hochst. ex 

 A. Rich. Tent. FJ. Abyss, ii. 76 ; Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 92 • Yatke 

 in Linnaea, xliii. 524. B. evolvuloides, R. Br. in Salt, Abyss. Append. 

 Ixiv. not of Choisy. Cressa arabica, Forsk. Fl. JEgypt.-Arab. 54. 



Nile Land. Xubia : Erkowit Mountain, Schweinfurth, 252 ! Hor Tamanib, 

 Lord! Eritrea': Bogos, Hildebrandt, 658b! near Sasiti, Schweinfurth Sf Siva, 

 591! Habab, Terraciano Sf Pappi, 602, 603, 649, 739, 880, 909; Mensa', Terra- 

 ciano Sf Pappi, 2260; Assaorta, Terraciano Sf Pap2)i, 18; Samhar, Terraciano Sf 

 Pappi, 71 ; Abyssinia : hills near Adganna, Schimper, 1015 ! near Dehli-Dikeno, 

 -1000 ft., Schimper ; and witbout precise locality, Salt ! 



Also in Arabia. 



