430 Capt. N. Vicary's Notes on the Botany of Sinde. 



abundant, forming small trees of ten or twelve feet high, with a 

 diameter of six to ten inches at base; when in full flower it looks 

 rather pretty. 



MeNISPERMACEjE. 



44. Cocculus leceba ?, D.C. : Lower Sinde. 



MyRSINACEyE. 



45. JEgiceras fragrans, Kon. : mud-flats, Kurrachee harbour. 



CoNVOLVULACEiE. 



46. Ipomaa bilobata : sand-hills, Kurrachee. 



47. Convolvulus lanuginosus, Desr. : Hala mountains. 



48. Convolvulus parvifloi'us, Vahl : base of mountains. 



49. Breweria evolvuloides ?, Chois. : Hala mountains. As I feel 

 considerable uncertainty about this plant, I add my note. 



Shrub erect, of one to two feet, stems slender, ligneous, all parts 

 densely clothed with a sericeous pubescence. Leaves very shortly 

 petioled, elliptic, upper ones lanceolate, entire, mucronate and 

 emarginate from the reflexed mucro, triple-nerved, pubescence 

 more dense beneath. Flowers axillary, one to three together, sub- 

 sessile. Calyx persistent, not enlarging, with two linear bracts at 

 base ; sepals, three exterior and two interior, a little shorter, lan- 

 ceolate acute, hairy beneath. Corolla with a deeply five-lobed 

 limb, the lobes hairy beneath. Stamens scarcely exsert, filaments 

 broad at base with five short teeth alternating, anthers reniform- 

 cordate, ovary two-celled, ovules four, styles two, divergent, fili- 

 form, stigmas discoid orbicular, continuous (not peltate). Capsule 

 chartaceous, dry, hairy towards apex, longer than the dry calyx, 

 two-celled, septa membranous, four-valved ; seeds from two to 

 three, oblong, black, very minutely scrobiculate, of a nutty 

 hardness. 



50. Evolvulus linifolius : base of Halas. 



51. Cressa Cretica, var. Indica : all Sinde. 



SC;EVOLACE/E. 



52. Sccevola Taccada, Roxb. : tops of sand-hills near Kurrachee. 



Plantagine^e. 



53. Plantago amplexicaulis, Cav. : Hala mountains. 



Plumbagine^e. 



54. JEgialitis obovata, Vic. : sand-hills, Kurrachee. Shrub of 

 two feet, stems ligneous, annulate with the ensheathing bases of 

 fallen leaves, densely foliaceous upwards; leaves blunt cuneate- 

 obovate, retuse, glaucous hoary, smooth, articulated to the sheaths 

 at base, spikes paniculate, fiexuose, terminal flowers secund, utri- 

 culus bursting at the apex into five short acute teeth. 



