Capt. N. Vicary's Notes on the Botany of Sinde. 433 



The Sinde plant is so viscous that everything adheres to it. 

 Flowers blue ; leaves ovate-lanceolate, narrowed into the short 

 petioles : pedicels short, minutely bibracteolate above the middle : 

 seeds truncate, oblong, longitudinally grooved with minute trans- 

 verse striae. 



SoLANACE^E. 



Solanum Forskalii, Dun.; cordatum, Fors. : Hala mountains. 

 Both species appear to be different forms of the same plant ; our 

 Sinde plant is sometimes prickly, sometimes not ; the leaves are 

 variable also. Stems slender ; prickles both curved and straight, 

 near the ends of the branches only ; young shoots and leaves 

 starry pubescent, old leaves smooth, round-cordate or subcordate 

 at base, narrowed into the petioles, margin entire or occasionally 

 sinuate toothed; flowers rather longly pedicelled, blue ; the corolla 

 greatly exceeding the half five-cleft calyx; berry red, smooth, 

 rather larger than a pea. 



Physalis somnifera, var. flexuosa : all Sinde and Hala moun- 

 tains. 



Hyoscyamus muticus, Linn. Hala mountains. 



Apocyne^e. 



Rhazya siricta, Decaisne. This shrub is abundant in the 

 Hala mountains and at their eastern bases, but particularly at 

 Shahpoor. It usually grows upon sand-hills, and has somewhat 

 the habit of our garden oleander, but does not rise to more than 

 three feet. The flowers are pale blue turning white by age. 

 There is a small entire margined nectarium. 



Asclepiade^e. 



Periploca aphylla, Dec. Bot. Jacq. All hilly parts of Sinde. 



This is my friend Dr. Falconer's Campelepis, Ann. Nat. Hist, 

 vol. x. p. 362. This shrub abounds in the Boogtee Beloch hills 

 near Deyrah. 



The habit is that of Orthanthera viminea ; the branches are de- 

 void of all pubescence. The leaves are linear-lanceolate (not ovate), 

 and are seen only on the young surculi. The flowers are of a 

 dark dull red colour ; the long uncinate filiform processes of the 

 faucial corona are inflected over the genitalia in the earlier stages 

 of the flower, but subsequently become reflexed through the divi- 

 sions of the corolla. The pollen of this plant requires to be re- 

 examined in the fresh flowers ; in my opinion it not only differs 

 from that of Periploca, but from the pollen of every genus of the 

 order. 



Orthanthera viminea. All Sinde. 



With few exceptions the above- noted plants are foreign to our 

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