Seddera.~\ xc. convolvulace.e (baker and kendle). 77 



9. S. capensis, Hallier f. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. vi. 529. An under- 

 shrub with tufted prostrate to saberect stems under a foot long, 

 clothed with lax ascending brown hairs. Leaves nearly sessile, ellip- 

 tic to ovate-elliptic, 6-9 lin. long, obtuse, often shorty mucronate, 

 surfaces and margins more or less pilose, especially on the veins. 

 Flowers solitary, on short axillary peduncles ; bracts lanceolate, as long 

 as the calyx. Calyx 4 lin. long ; sepals herbaceous, becoming coriaceous 

 at the base, ovate-lanceolate, the inner lanceolate, acute, bearing long 

 hairs on the back and margin. Corolla broadly funnel-shaped, pinkish- 

 white, 6 lin. long ; midpetaline areas densely hairy on the limb. 

 Stamens included, subequal ; filaments glabrous, gradually broadening 

 at the base, not dentate. Ovary hairy at the top ; style branched 

 nearly from the base ; stigmas subpeltate, bilobed. Capsule glabrous, 

 shorter than the calyx, 2-|- lin. long. Seeds blackish, glabrous. — Rendle 

 in Journ. Bot. 1902, 189. Evolvulics capensis, E. Meyer in Drege, Zwei 

 Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 40 ; Choisy in DC. Prodr. ix. 444 ; Hallier 

 f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 86. Breweria capensis, Baker in Dyer, Fl. 

 Cap. iv. ii. 80. 



Mozamb. Dist. Rhodesia : Salisbury, Hand, 126 ! Gardner ! 

 Also in South Africa. 



10. S. suffruticosa, Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 88. Suffruti- 

 cose; stems erect or spreading, leafy, 1 ft. or more long, with minute 

 adpressecl hairs. Leaves shortly petioled, firm, oblong, shortly acute, 

 about 1 in. long, densely hairy like the stem on both surfaces. Flowers 

 in few-flowered dense subsessile axillary cymes, rarely solitary. 

 Calyx hairy, 2|- lin. long. Sepals with an acute herbaceous apex from 

 a tougher ovate base. Corolla white, 3 lin. long, subentire, midpetaline 

 areas sparingly hirsute. Stamens reaching nearly to the top of the lobes. 

 Capsule broadly ovoid, sparingly hirsute at the apex, about \\ lin. in 

 diam. ; seeds 4, black, glabrous. — Hallier f. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. vi. 531. 

 Seddera mucronata, Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 88. Breiveria 

 suffruticosa, Schinz in Verh. Bot. Ver. Brandenb. xxx. 275. B. baccha- 

 roides, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 08. B. sessiliflora, Baker, I.e. 

 Convolvulus mucronatus, Engl. Jahrb. x. 246. 



Mozarnb. Dist. German East Africa: Umba Valley, Smith! Portuguese 

 East Africa : Zambesi Valley between Tette and the coast, and between Senna and 

 Lupata, Kirk I British Central Africa : Ngamiland ; Kwebe, 3000 ft., Lttgard, 

 184 ! Mrs. Lugard, 203 ! 



Var. Mrsutissima, Hallier f. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. vi. 531. Plant more robust 

 and more densely hairy ; leaves generally larger than in the species, to nearly 1^ in. 

 long by 1 in. broad. — Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 725. S. conglomerate/,, Hallier 

 f. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. v. 1008. Breiveria conglomerate, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 

 1894, 68. 



Lower Guinea. Angola; Loanda and Barra do Dande, Welivitscli, 6160! 

 Loanda, Gosstceiter, 150 ! 375 ! 



11. S. Welwitschii, Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 88. A 

 delicate undershrub with long slender flexuose branching prostrate 

 stems, thinly clothed with short adpressed hairs. Leaves some- 



