1 1 ."> 4 Notes on the Botany of Sinde. [Nov 



pungent leaves, and axillary capitate inflorescence, of which unfor- 

 tunately I am without specimens. A new species of the African genus 

 Limeum, is also found on the skirts of the Halas. Plantago amplexi- 

 caulis, is found in the inner valleys along with Haplophyllum. An 

 Echium of the Cape type, and possibly new, and Trichodesma Afri- 

 canum, B. B. are abundant in the fissures of rocks midst the higher 

 hills. 



Salvia primula — iEgyptica, and a new species of the same section, 

 are widely spread through the hills. A new Linaria, very like L. 

 triphylla, is found from the base of the hills upwards. 



Solanum Forskalii, or a species akin to it, is also abundant. Hyocya- 

 mus muticus is found in moist places. An Asclepiad, with the habit of 

 Orthanthera viminea, is very abundant on the margins of water courses. 

 It forms a large bushy shrub, and I suspect is the same plant described 

 by my friend Dr. Falconer as " Campelepis." Cometes Surattensis is 

 found occasionally along the whole base of the Hala mountains ; a 

 Caralluma or some nearly allied plant is abundant on the higher ranges, 

 but I never saw it in flower ; a new and pretty species of Cleome 

 is found in the passes leading into the Hala range at a low elevation : 

 with this I close my notice of the hilly region of Sinde. 



The plains of Sinde are of a very variable character, some places 

 being very fertile, and others barren, and naked desert with little to be 

 seen except Salsolea and Tamarisk, and even these affect the borders 

 of desert places. 



The Tamarisk on the borders of the desert in some places yields a 

 considerable quantity of manna, it exudes from the bark of the younger 

 branches in the form of translucent tears. It is collected in some 

 abundance in the neighbourhood of Meher, south of Larkhana, and used 

 to adulterate sugar ; my servants eat a considerable quantity of it with- 

 out being in any way affected. In fact they were wonder-stricken and 

 returned thanks to God for having miraculously created sugar in the 

 desert jungle. I had about a seer of it for near a year, it remained 

 unaltered, and was at last destroyed by exposure to rain. 



This species of manna is noticed by Doctor Royle in his Illustrations 

 of Botany, p. 214. I saw neither flowers nor fruit, so cannot speak 

 as to the species, but the shrub has the habit and appearance of T. 

 gallica. 



