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fully referred this to G. sapida, but I suspect it is a very differ- 

 ent plant ; my specimens are not sufficient to determine ; the 

 petals bear a large scale at base and are bifid with toothed lobes. 

 The berry is red and eatable when ripe. 



PoRTULACEiE. 



19. Orygia decumbens, Forsk. : eastern base of Hala mountains. 

 The sepals and petals are red, and the stems and leaves arc 



often coloured ; this plant does not seem to differ much from 0. 

 triantliemoides, Heyne. 



PARONYCHIEiE. 



20. Cometes Surattensis : all Sinde. 



RuTACEjE. 



21. Peganum Harmala : all Sinde. 



22. Haplophyllum tuberculatum, Andr. Juss. : near Deyrah, 

 Boogtee Beloch hills. 



Zygophylle^. 



23. Tribulus alatv^, Del. : eastern base of Hala mountains. 



24. Fagonia Mysorensis : Sukkur and all Sinde. 



25. Zygophyllum obtusum, Vic. : valleys of the eastern slopes 

 of Hala range; plants gregarious, herbaceous, decumbent, pale 

 green. Leaves fleshy, simple, spatulate-linear, blunt, or rounded 

 at apex, sessile and subsessile, stipules acuminate, scales at base of 

 stamens deeply bifid. Capsule deeply five-wing-lobed, five-celled, 

 each cell opening inwards, with two to three pendent seeds. Flow- 

 ers shortly pedicelled, yellow. 



26. Seezenia lanatum, Wild. : all rocky places in Sinde. The 

 stamens in the Sinde plant are most certainly alternate with the 

 sepals of calyx, and not opposite to them ; some doubt may exist 

 with respect to the identity of this plant with that from Sierra 

 Leone, I therefore give my note of it. 



Plant spreading, semi-erect, stems and branches flexuose, woolly 

 at the joints within the stipules; younger branches, under surface 

 of leaves, and their margins papillose from sessile glands, other- 

 wise smooth ; leaves petioled, opposite, three- foliate, midleaflet 

 obovate, often retuse, lateral leaflets oblique-ovate, all entire and 

 shortly apiculate, stipules linear, often uniting with the margins 

 of the stipules of the opposite leaf and thus appearing interpetio- 

 lary ; flowers green tinged with yellow, axillary, solitary, pedicels 

 in fruit longer than the leaves. Calyx five-parted with a valvate 

 estivation, lobes lanceolate, each bearing opposite the centre of its 

 base an adherent scale half its length and with free shortly fimbri- 

 ate margins ; stamens five, hypogynous, op})ositc to the divisions 

 of calyx ; filaments slightly flattened, smooth, tapering; style five- 



