1152 Notes on the Botany of Sinde. [Nov. 



f Goand. — Sandsumjee, na saka. 

 •< English. — Sandsumjee's song. 

 |_ Canarese. — Sandsumjee -ya Hadu.* 



{Goand. — Sandsumjee, na saka kuyat ro Baban. 

 English. — Sandsumjee's song hear, O Father. 

 Canarese. — Sandsumjee-ya Hadu* kelu Ele uppa. 



f Goand. — Sark ask kitur sing Baban hille puttur. 

 < English. — Six wives he took, Sing Baba not born. 

 [ Canarese. — Aru hendarannu madicondanu Sing Baba Huttalilla. 



' Goand. — Yirrun ask kitur awite Sing-baban autarietur. 

 * English. — Seventh wife took by her Sing baba was conceived. 

 ; Canarese.— Elne Hendati yennu madicondanu Avalu Singu babannu garbhadali 

 dhariudalu. 



Some notes on the Botany of Sinde, by Captain N. Vicary, 2nd 

 European Regt. 



The following notes have heen made from plants, collected under 

 considerable difficulties, at seasons (Dec. Jan. Feb.) the worst that 

 could be selected for collecting plants, or when I was accompanying 

 an army in an enemy's country, with scarcely the means of transporting 

 my private baggage. — I mention this merely to show that much remains 

 to be done of botanical interest in Sinde, and that my collection gives 

 but a limited, although a characteristic idea of the plants that flourish 

 in that region. The Flora of Sinde falls naturally into three divisions, 

 that of the hills, the plains, and the coast. The hills being either the 

 bases or out-liers of the Hala range, are barren in the extreme, owing 

 to the want of rivers, the rareness of natural springs, their saline 

 nature where they do exist, and the absence of periodical rains. 



Little that could be called soil exists ; a few of the intervening valleys 

 only are favored with arable land. 



The hilly country generally presents a most desolate and barren 

 appearance — little vegetation meets the eye — scarcely anything but the 

 bare, broken, pale or rusty yellow Tertiary strata, of which they are 

 cjmposed. My Beloch guides informed me that rain at a proper 

 season falls on an average about every fourth year, that shortly after- 

 wards vegetation appears abundantly, and that on those occasions the 

 Belochees are in the habit of collecting and storing dried grass ; at 

 such seasons the botanist would doubtless find much to excite atten- 

 tion, but at any time the few plants found are very interesting. 

 * Pronounced long. 



