1847.] Notes on the Botany of Sinde. 1 1 53 



A species of Palm is very abundant in this division, near springs 

 and lining the banks of water courses. If not new, I believe it to be 

 Chaemerops humilis, but I have seen neither flowers or frnit. The 

 tree has scarcely any stem above ground ; the leaves are flabelliform, 

 and the petioles channelled with lacerate stiff margins. The denuded 

 and dry spadix of one tree which I saw w r as about 6 feet high, with 

 numerous lateral branchlets. The Belochees, make sandals of the leaves 

 of this tree. A Viola is found near water courses, nearly allied to if 

 not identical with V. patrinii. 



A species of Reamuria, with leaves differing somewhat from the 

 described kinds, also exists on the tops of some of the lower hills. 

 This, and a Scrophularineous plant (Anticharis) are the most orna- 

 mental plants found in the lower Halas. 



A Grewia, allied to G. sapida, forms small shrubs rising from the 

 fissures of the rocks ; its small red berries are eatable. 



Orygia trianthemoides, is found near the base of the hills, Hep- 

 tophyllum tuberculatum in the upper valleys, and Peganum Harmala 

 everywhere. I found Tribulus alatus, Del. and Calligonum, both 

 Egyptian forms, at the base of the hills ; a species of Zygophyllum, 

 differing little from Z. simplex, is found forming dense matted beds 

 near springs in the upper valleys. Seetzenia, a Sierra Leone genus, is 

 abundant both in the hills and at their bases, also a new species of 

 the Cape genus " Monsonia," — Neurada procumbens, an Egyptian or 

 Arabian plant, is plentiful on the borders of the Sinde desert, and also 

 in the hills, is particularly plentiful too near Shahpoor on the western 

 border of the desert. On the sand hills at the same place I found 

 species of Rhazya ; it is a pretty small shrub with so much the habit, 

 of the garden Oleander that our sepoys called it " Bun Kunale." It is 

 also found throughout the hills but invariably in sandy places. 



A species of Forskalea, with ovate leaves, is abundant in some places 

 amongst the hills ; the leaves of this plant adhere to everything with 

 great tenacity and can only be removed piece meal ; the whole plant is 

 clothed with sharp hooked hairs. 



A Sophora, with pretty yellow Laburnum-like flowers, is also found 

 amongst rocks near water, accompanied by Linaria ramosissima, and a 

 variety of Lindenbergia urticaefolia. Several species of Salsolae are 

 also abundant. One in particular in the hilly country with terete 



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