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35. Adenanthera paiwuiana ? Near villages, cultivated ? 

 Plants of this order are comparatively rare in Sinde ; my her- 

 barium contains only four others, and two of these are Indigoferce. 



UrTICACBjE. 



36. Forskalea ovata, Vic. : Hala' mountains. Plant rising erect 

 to two feet, all parts clothed with sharp hooked hairs ; leaves 

 alternate, triple-nerved, white, tomentose beneath excepting the 

 iierves, lower ones broad ovate, upper ones ovate, all narrowed 

 :it base into the petioles and grossly dentate; involucres of four 

 to seven linear-spatulate lobes. This plant comes near F. tena- 

 cissima, and perhaps may be a broad-leaved variety of it. 



Aristolochiace^. 



37. Aristolochia hracteata : Lower Sinde. 



Chenopodiace^e. 



38. Salsola Indica : Sinde desert and Halas. 



39. Salsola striata ? : Upper and Lower Sinde. 



40. Anabasis florida, M.B. : borders of Sinde desert, and banks 

 of Indus to near Bhawulpoor. 



41. Atriplex veiruciferum, M. B. ? : sand-hills near Kurrachee. 

 I have doubtfully referred this as above, but it is probably a new 

 s))ecies. The whole plant is lepidate-hoary and shrubby. Leaves 

 sjiortly petioled, oblong, ovate, and obovate, blunt, narrowed at 

 base into the petioles, lower leaves often remotely toothed. Upper 

 leaves entire, valves of fruit orbicular with the reflexed entire mar- 

 ins and subcordate bases lepidate, otherwise smooth. Stamens 



the male flowers five. 



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Phytolaccace^. 



42. Limeum obovatum, Vic. : skirts of the Hala mountains 

 near Kotree. Roots ligneous, descending deep into the soil ; stems 

 herbaceous prostrate, minutely pubescent. Leaves cuneate ob- 

 ovate and ovate, obtuse with a point, minutely pubescent ; flowers 

 opposed to a leaf, three to five together, very shortly pedunculate, 



dicels minutely bibracteolate. This plant comes near L, Capense. 



POLYGONACE^. 



43. Calligonum Pohjgonoides ? : all Sinde. The specific cha- 

 racters of this curious genus are founded on peculiarities of the 

 fruit ; unfortunately I have never seen the fruit of our Sinde 

 shrub, and have merely referred it to C. Pohjgonoides, because 

 that plant makes a nearer approach in habitat to Sinde than C. 

 Pallasia. This shrub is common throughout Sinde, and is found 

 on the banks of the Indus nearly as far up as Bhawulpoor ; near 

 Shahpoor, at the eastern base of the Hala mountains, it is most 



