Glabrous shrub. Leaves narrow-linear to acicular. Flowers in erect terminal racemes or racemes on rigid lateral branchlets. Wing-sepals obovate-oblong, faintly nerved, deciduous. Bahr El Ghazal Prov. (Jur Ghattas); Bahr El Jebel (Madi). =P. senensis= _Klotzsch._ Wiry herb or undershrub. Leaves oblanceolate, obtuse. Flowers in very short lateral racemes or axillary fascicles. Wing-sepals broadly ovate with numerous looping nerves. Red Sea Prov. (Sinkat). 62 =Securidaca longipedunculata= _Fresen._ SAGGAT—Arab. Branched shrub, 8-10 ft. high. Leaves alternate, coriaceous, linear- lanceolate to ovate oblong, 1-2 in. long. Flowers rose or purple or violet or variegated with white, racemose. Fruit a 1-winged samara. Fung Prov. (Famaka); Bahr El Ghazal Prov. (Niamniam-land). =CRASSULACEÆ.= 63 =Tillæa pentandra= _Royle._ Small herb with opposite, fleshy cylindrical subulate leaves, connate at base. Flowers small, white, solitary, or 2-3 together, axillary. Fruit of 4-5 free carpels. Red Sea Prov. (Erkowit); Darfur Prov. (J. Marra, 9,000 ft.). 64 =Bryophyllum calycinum= _Salisb._ Shrubby herb, 2-4 ft. high, with barren and purple-spotted flowering stems. Leaves opposite, fleshy, crenate, either simple, ovate-orbicular or unequally pinnate with ovate segments. Flowers up to 2 in. long, pendulous, in paniculate cymes; calyx inflated, striped purple; cor. reddish-purple; stamens 8, in 2 rows. Fruit of 4 follicles. Bahr El Jebel (Madi). 65 =Kalanchoe crenata= _Haw._ HARFIFOIT—Hadendowa. Tall perennial herb with opposite fleshy, crenate leaves and yellow flowers. Red Sea Prov. (Erkowit, foot of Has Has). 66 =Umbilicus botryoides= _Hochst._ Small herb with perennial root-stock. Lower leaves orbicular, loosely crenate, peltate. Flowering stems usually about 6 in. long bearing a simple or somewhat branched raceme of pale pendulous flowers. Red Sea Prov. (Erkowit); Darfur Prov. (J. Marra: Abwo, 9,600 ft.). 67 =Sempervivum molle= _Vis._ Softly hairy, fleshy herb. Leaves alternate, fleshy, oval-rhomboid, red- spotted beneath. Flowers cymose, white or yellow. Nubia. =SAXIFRAGACEÆ.= 68 =Vahlia viscosa= _Roxb._ SAFEIRA EL BAHR (Atbara), WADE (Halfa)—Arab; TELGIN—Hadendowa; TEIMER—Rashida. Prostrate, glandular, pilose herb, with ovate-oblong, opposite leaves and yellow flowers. Calyx 5-lobed; corolla 5 petals; anthers 5; style deeply bifid; ovary inferior. River banks; Wadi Halfa; Berber Prov. (Atbara & Berber); Khartoum, Blue Nile, Fung Prov. (Jongol’s Post); White Nile, Kordofan & Mongalla Provinces. =V. oldenlandioides= _Roxb._ Glandular or pubescent herb with opposite linear leaves. Flowers small, numerous; calyx tube adnate to ovary, segments 5, short, triangular; petals 5, epigynous; ovary inferior; capsule sub-globose, small. Kordofan Prov. (Abu Gerad); Darfur Prov.; Bahr El Ghazal Prov. (Jur Ghattas); Mongalla Prov. (Mongalla).