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Note to the Botanico- Agricultural Account of the protected Sikh States, 

 No. 1, September, 1838,;?. 764. By M. P. Edgeworth, Esq. C. S. 



The plant then described as Reseda Oligandra, has since been publish- 

 ed in three plates to Jacquemont's Voyage, t. 25, p. 234, under the name 

 of Oligomeris Glauscescens. 



He forms a new genus of the Resedacese of it. 



The species of the Boraginese described, I have since ascertained to 

 belong to the genus Nonnea, stated in Endlicher to belong to Europe 

 and Central Asia. 



The name of the species of Plantago is Ban-phula, misprinted Bau- 

 phula. 



The species of the Acanthacese noted as peculiar to the Jhand tract, 

 I have never had an opportunity of examining ; the only time I ever 

 saw it, was as a large leafless cone of imbricated bracts, containing 

 ripe seeds, which were covered with silky hair ; from its habit I should 

 judge it to be either an Acanthus or a Lepidagathis. 



I subsequently found Jacquemont's Cleome Ruta, t. 19, p. 19, appa- 

 rently a very distinct species ; it is very rare near Loodihana, but becomes 

 abundant near Ferozpoor. This last locality is peculiarly distinguished 

 by the abundance of the Bertholetia lanceolata, which covers acres of 

 ground. I was only there during the winter, and had consequently no 

 opportunity of investigating the botany of the neighbouring country. 

 I observed great abundance of a species of Womismia, which I have not 

 found to the east of Loodihana. It is nearly, if not quite, identical with 

 Dr. Wight's W. Capitata from the Peninsula. But I doubt not that in 

 the rainy season, several curious forms might be found in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Ferozpoor, especially in the extensive Jhand forest lying to 

 the south-east. 



At Loodihana in August 1839, I detected a new species of grass, 

 which I cannot refer to any described genus of Chloridese. It approaches 

 nearest to Eleusine, but wants the great characteristic of that genus the 

 Aril, and the spikelets are many-flowered. I propose to call it Ochtho- 

 chloa, from its growing only on Kheras, or Thes, the deserted sites of 

 villages. OyOoq tumulus, \^or) grass, generic character. 



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