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Capt. N. yicary's Notes on the Botany of Sinde. 431 



BORAGINE/E. 



55. Heliotropium Rotleri : Kurrachee. 



56. Echium ? : Hala range. I. am unable to refer this to any 

 f the many described species, and therefore attach my note. 



Plant fruticose, erect, about a foot in height, growing from 

 tissures in rocks. Younger stems, leaves and calyces densely 

 clothed with short appressed strigse. Leaves five to six lines 

 long, ligulate-linear, blunt-pointed, sessile, alternate. Racemes 

 simple, many-flowered; flowers solitary, sessile, secund, bluish 

 white, bracts like the leaves but smaller, bracteoles none, pedi- 

 cels short, adherent to rachis for half their length. Calyx with 

 blunt linear unequal segments (sometimes only four, the fourth 

 broader) ; tube of the corolla ten-nerved with a ring of hairs within 

 at base, smooth in the middle, and the faux closed with hairs which 

 indistinctly form five very small tubes between the anthers ; lobes 

 of limb patent, blunt-ovate, slightly auricled at base (one lobe 

 often broader) . Margins minutely and remotely toothed. Sta- 

 mens not exsert, filaments very short, anthers mutic, linear-ob- 

 long blunt and undivided at base, style shortly exsert, its base 

 becoming angular in seed ; stigma peltate capitate with two mi- 

 nute central points; achenia rather smooth with an incurved 

 point, one or two, often only one maturing, attached to base of 

 style, perforation* at base oblong triangular. 



57. Trichodesma Indica: Sinde passim. 



58. Trichodesma Africanum, R. B. ? : Hala mountains. 



I have referred this to the above with some doubt ; it has the 

 same prickly hispid habit, but differs in some particulars ; plant 

 growing from fissures in rocks, erect, 1 to 1|^ feet. Leaves and 

 stems dark green, hispid from hard white prickle-bearing calli, 

 leaves opposite at the divisions of the racemes, otherwise alter- 

 nate, upper leaves subsessile, lanceolate, acute, prickles longer on 

 the margins and midrib beneath. Racemes lax, the lower ones 

 from opposite axils, upper from alternate axils and terminal ; 

 peduncles usually three-flowered, lengthening with the en- 

 larging calyx in seed ; bracteoles none ; calyx rigid, hairy, five- 

 angled with rounded auricles, segments acute, corolla blue with 

 caudate lobes, stigma simple, blunt, pedicels lengthened with the 

 much-increased and nutant calyx in seed, achenia four, subtri- 

 gonal, the outer faces concave, marginate, the margin acutely 

 serrulate with slightly glochidiate teeth. 



My specimens do not exhibit the lower leaves. 



LABIATiE. 



59. Salvia j^Egyptiaca, Linn. : slopes of Hala mountains. 



60. Salvia pumila, Benth : slopes of Hala mountains. 



