1158 Notes on the Botany of Sinde. [Nov. 



Capparidece. 



4. Cleome ruta, Jacqt : Sukkur and other rocky places in Sinde. 

 The petals are pink, and bear at base of each a fringed scale. 



5. " Cleome fimbriata, Vic : lower hills in Sinde. 



Stems and leaves hispid from gland-capitate stiff hairs ; leaves all 

 simple, lower ones long petioled, round-cordate, quintuple-nerved, 

 outer lateral nerves lost in the margin, three medial nerves stronger 

 and inarcuately reaching the apex. Upper leaves smaller, subconform 

 narrower, subsessile, flowers pale purple ? from the terminal axillae ; 

 pedicels lengthening in fruit ; calyx clothed with gland-capitate hairs. 

 Sepals 4 ; subequal, lanceolate. Petals 4 ; shortly clawed with acute 

 oblong-deltoid laminae, apices bearing out gland-capitate hairs, and 

 ciliate with them. Bases toothed slightly on the margins and bear- 

 ing above claw transverse free fimbriate petaloid scales. Fertile sta- 

 mens 4, rather longer than petals, one anther larger, torus small. Ovary 

 subsessile, linear, rather rough ; style caducous, cylindric, short ; stigma 

 discoid, capitate. Capsule Jinear-cylindric furrowed on opposite sides, 

 shortly stipitate, densely clothed with strongly stipitate, peltate glands, 

 1 celled, 2 valved, valves separating from the placentiferous narrow 

 replum, seeds most numerous, cordiform, smooth, amphitropous. I have 

 given my note of this plant, as it seems to be not far removed from 

 C. Droserifolia, Del : and perhaps eventually it may prove to be the 

 same. ■ 



6. Cleome rupicola, Vic : passes leading into the Hala range of 

 mountains and lower hills. 



This plant is not unlike C. glauca, Dec. Vol. I. p. 239, but the 

 stems and leaves of my plant are clothed with scattered gland-headed 

 hairs, and young branches are 4 angled. Leaves elliptic, ovate and 

 obovate, petiolate, upper leaves reduced to linear-lanceolate bracts. 

 Racemes often 6 inches long. Petals orange-rufescent, secund, smooth 

 stamens secund, in an opposite direction to petals, 6 ; gland of the 

 torus semilunate, siliques pendulous, falcate, flat, subsessile, 15 lines 

 long, 2 lines broad, bearing some scattered capitate hairs ; seeds densely 

 beset with brown hairs, numerous. 



7. Cadaba Indica ? on rocks near Kurrachee and Hala mountains. 

 I am doubtful about this plant, having seen it only in fruit. The 



leaves near the apices of branches are often supported by two stipulary 



