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collections from Beloochistan and Scinde. In the meantime he has 
transmitted to me for examination some of the more remarkable species, 
and, amongst others, what appears to be a perfectly new form of Sa- 
pindaceg. As I have his full permission to publish any of his plants, 
I gladly avail myself of it to dedicate this genus to one who promises 
to hold so distinguished a place among the investigators of Indian 
Botany. 
In outward appearance this prickly, almost leafless shrub, assumes 
the rigid, divaricately-branched, seraggy form of so many of the vege- 
table productions of those arid table-lands. Without the flowers one 
might take it for a very thorny Lycium, but it is polypetalous, and. 
amongst these the hypogynous dise, the imbrieated sepals, the hairy 
tuft at the base of the petals, the vacancy left by the deficient fifth one, 
a certain obliquity in the flower, and the three-celled ovary, at once 
point to Sapindacee, showing a close affinity to Paullinia and its 
nearest allies; whilst the simple leaves and the geminate, not solitary, 
ovules in each cell refer it to the tribe of Dodonee. The fruit is indeed 
as yet wanting to complete the history of the genus, but we have quite 
sufficient to give it a distinct character, and to fix its affinities. Dr. 
Stoeks gathered the plant on the 26th March, at Galangon in the 
high plains of Upper Beloochistan, at an elevation above the sea of 
about 5127 feet. 
The following are the technical botanical characters :— 
Char. Gen. StocKst1a. Sepala 5, orbiculata, zstivatione valde imbricata. 
Petala 4, versus marginem disci hypogyni inserta, æstivatione im- 
bricata, basi fasciculo denso pilorum appendiculata, quinti superioris 
sede vacua. Stamina 8, subexcentrica, disco inter petala et ova- 
rium inserta, filamentis filiformibus, antheris ovatis bilocularibus. 
Ovarium triloculare, quandoque abortivum, sessile. Ovula in loculis - 
gemina, in medio anguli centralis collateraliter affixa. Stylus in- 
curvus, apice attenuato minute stigmatosus.—Frutex foliis simpli- 
cibus. 
Species unica: S. Brahuica.—Frutex glaberrimus, glaucescens, divari- 
cato-ramosissimus, ramulis spinescentibus horridus. Ramuli novelli 
rubesċentes. Folia pauca, hine inde ramulis abortientibus fascicula- 
ta, alterna, linearia, obtusa, basi in petiolum brevissimum contracta, 
1-1 poll. longa, 1 lin. lata, pallide virentia, costa vix conspicua, cæ- 
terum enervia. Pedunculi racemosim 1-3-flori, ad — 
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