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.^. 



Solanum Foi^skalii, 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 somnifei^a, var. flexuosa : all Sinde and Hala moun- 

 tains. 



Hyoscy annus muticus, Linn. Hala mountains. 



Apocyne^. 



Rhazya st7'icta, 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. 



AsCLEPIADEiE. 



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 everj^genus of the 

 oi'der. 



Orthanthera mminea. All Sinde. 



With i^.w exception* the above- noted plants are foreign to our 

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