Capt. N. Vicary's Notes on the Botany of Sinde. 425 



Capparide^. 



4. Cleome ruta, Jacqt. : Sukkur and other rocky places in Sinde. 

 The petals are pink, and bear at the base of each a fringed 

 scale. 



5. Cleome fimbriata, Vic. : lower hills in Sinde. 



Stems and leaves hispid from gland-capitate stiff hairs ; leaves 

 all simple, lower ones long-petioled, round-cordate, quintuple- 

 nerved, outer lateral nerves lost in the margin, three medial 

 nerves stronger and inarcuately reaching the apex. Upper leaves 

 smaller, subconform narrower, subsessile ; flowers pale purple ? 

 from the terminal axillse ; pedicels lengthening in fruit ; calyx 

 clothed with gland-capitate hairs. Sepals four, subequal, lan- 

 ceolate. Petals four, shortly clawed with acute oblong-deltoid 

 laminse, apices bearing out gland-capitate hairs, and ciliate with 

 them ; bases toothed slightly on the margins, and bearing above 

 claw transverse free fimbriate petaloid scales. Fertile stamens 

 four, rather longer than petals, one anther larger, torus small. 

 Ovary subsessile, linear, rather rough ; style caducous, cylindric, 

 short ; stigma discoid, capitate. Capsule linear-cylindric, fur- 

 rowed on opposite sides, shortly stipitate, densely clothed with 

 strongly stipitate, peltate glands, one-celled, two-valved, valves 

 separating from the placentiferous narrow replum ; seeds nume- 

 rous, cordiform, smooth, amphitropous. I have given my note 

 of this plant, as it seems to be not far removed from C. Dro- 

 serifolia, Del. ; and perhaps eventually it may prove to be the 

 same. 



6. Cleome rupicola, Vic. : passes leading into the Hala range 

 of mountains and lower hills. 



This plant is not unlike C. glauca, DeC, vol. i. p. 239, but the 

 stems and leaves of my plant are clothed with scattered gland- 

 headed hairs, and the young branches are four-angled. Leaves el- 

 liptic, ovate and obovate, petiolate, upper leaves reduced to linear- 

 lanceolate bracts. Racemes often six inches long. Petals orange- 

 rufescent, secund, smooth ; stamens secund, in an opposite direc- 

 tion to petals, six ; gland of the torus semilunate ; siliques pen- 

 dulous, falcate, flat, subsessile, fifteen lines long, two lines broad, 

 bearing some scattered capitate hairs ; seeds densely beset with 

 brown hairs, numerous. 



7. Cadaba Indica ? : on rocks near Kurrachee and Hala moun- 

 tains. 



I am doubtful about this plant, having seen it only in fruit. 

 The leaves near the apices of branches are often supported by 

 two stipulary thorns. The fruit is nutant, longly stipitate and 

 cucumber-shaped, bluntly trigonal, three to four inches long, and 

 turning red when ripe. 



