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thorns. The fruit is nutant, longly stipitate and cucumber-shaped 

 bluntly trigonal, 3 to 4 inches long and turning red when ripe. 



Resedacece. 



8. Ochradenus baccatus, Delile, lower Sinde. I believe this to be 

 the Egyptian plant, although the Sinde one differs in some trifling par- 

 ticulars ; my specimens are not sufficiently advanced to show the spini- 

 facient habit. 



Violaeece. 



9. Viola patrinii, D. C. ; Kurrachee, and Hala mountains. 



lleamuriacece. 



10. Reamuria Hypericoides, Wild. Doz Akhooshtee, and spurs of 

 the Hala mountains. 



The leaves of the Sinde plant are spatulate-linear and crowded to 

 the ends of the branches. 



Sapindacece. 



11. Dodonaea Burmanniana, D. C. Lower Sinde. This shrub is 

 not more than three feet in height, with leaves about an inch in length, 

 never more, and blunt cuneate-linear. I have some doubt as to the 

 species ; there is another in Sinde of which I have no specimens. 



Matvacece. 



12. Althaea pumila, Vic: near Shikarpoor, plant herbaceous, from 

 6 to 10 inches. 



Stems slender, stellately hairy, stipulae ovate, leaves stellate, hairy 

 on both sides, lower ones caudate at base, palmately 3 parted with the 

 lateral lobes bifid, the apices roundly tridentate, midlobe cuneate, the 

 apex roundly 3 — 5 toothed. Flowers very shortly pedicelled, axillary, 

 blue. Involucre 10 cleft with linear lobes. Calyx half, 5 cleft, with acute 

 lobes ; anthers about 10 ; styles 10, filiform. Stigmata capitate. Carpels 

 arranged round a central shortly 10 winged columella, the apex of which 

 is filiform, not marginate, transversely corrugate, 1 seeded. 



13. Pavonia odorata, Wild, between Kurrachee arid Hyderabad. 



14. Serrsea incana, Cav. ; sand hills, Kurrachee. This plant is 

 rather pretty when in flower, it forms small bushes about two feet in 

 height. Anthers 25 to 30, stipitate, veniform, 1 celled, stigmata 

 ciliate. 



15. Abutilon Iudicum, Sinde and Hala mountains. 



16. Sida acuta. Plains of Sinde. 



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