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FLORA OF ADEN. 
(Marcbesetti) ; without locality (Edgew., Hook., Birdw., Perry, Balfour). 
Distribution : — Abyssinia, Nubia, Eritrea, Socotra, S. Arabia, 
Baluchistan, Afghanistan, Sind, Punjab. 
2. Convolvulus sericopliyllus Anders. J ourn. Linn. Soc. V, Suppl. 
p. 25 ; Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. XVIII, 97. 
Convolvulus somalensis Branch. Sert. Somal. p, 43 ( non Vatke). 
Convolvulus acicularis Vatke in Linnsea vol. 43, 518. 
Description : — A shrubby perennial, reaching 6 feet in height, much 
branched from the base ; branches strictly ascending, terete, woody, 
spinescent at the tip, slightly silky when young, glabrate when mature. 
Leaves silky, acicular, lower oblanceolate, shortly acute, to 1 inch long, 
upper growing gradually smaller and passing into the bracts. 
Flowers 1 — 3, fascicled, forming terminal racemes. Peduncle up 
to 9 lines long, generally much shorter. Sepals cartilaginous, ovate- 
acuminate, minutely silky, very small, barely more than 1 line long. 
Corolla 3 lines long, externally sericeo-hirsute. 
Capsule globose, glabrous. Seeds black, opaque. 
Flowers : — Dec. 1847 (Hooker), Dec. 1889 (Defh). 
Fruits: — Dec. 1888 (Schweinf.), Febr. 1851 (Thomson), April 1878 
(Perry). 
Locality: — South-eastern slope of the Koosaf Valley (Defl.) ; valley 
at the foot of the Shum Shum Range (Schweinf.) ; great valley between 
Steamer Point and town (Marcbesetti) ; without locality (Hook., 
Thomson, Birdw., Perry). 
Distribution .-—Aden, Highlands of Somaliland. 
2 , Breweria R. Br. 
Herbs or undershrubs, large and twining, or small and erect. Leaves 
entire. 
Flowers in axillary pedunculate heads or terminal close panicles, 
or 1 — 3 together, sessile and axillary. Sepals equal or unequal. Corolla 
campanulate or infundibuliform ; limb 5-plaited or very shortly and 
broadly lobed. Stamens included ; filaments filiform, often dilated at 
the base. Ovary 2-celled; ovules 4; style filiform, equally or unequally 
bifid, or styles 2 free from the base; stigmas capitate. 
Capsule globose or ovoid, 4-valved, membranous or coriaceous. Seeds 
normally 4, glabrous or pilose. 
Species about 25. 
Distribution .- — Tropics of both hemispheres, Australia, N. America. 
1. Breweria latifolia (Hochst. et Steud.) Benth. et Hook. Gen. PI. 
II, 87 ; Hook. FI. Brit. Ind. IV, 224. 
