1160 Notes on the Botany of Sinde. [Nov. 



Tiliacece. 

 17. Antichorus (Corchorus) depressus, Linn. ; Khangurh and bor- 

 ders of desert. 



18* Grewia sapida? all hilly places in Sinde. I have doubtfully 

 referred this to G. sapida, but I suspect it is a very different plant, 

 my specimens are not sufficient to determine ; the petals bear a large 

 scale at base and are bifid with toothed lobes. The berry is red and 

 eatable when ripe. 



Portulacece. 



19. Orygia decumbens, Forsk : eastern base of Hala mountains. 

 The sepals and petals are red, and the stems and leaves are often 



colored ; this plant does not seem to differ much from O. trianthem- 

 oides, Heyne. 



Paronychiece. 



20. Cometes Surattensis ; all Sinde. 



Rutacece. 



21. Peganum Harmala; all Sinde. 



22. Haplophyllum tuberculatum, Andr. Juss : near Deyrah, 

 Boogtee, Beloch hills. 



Zygophyllece. 



23. Tribulus alatus, Bel : eastern base of Hala mountains. 



24. Fagonia Mysorensis ; Sukkur and all Sinde. 



25. Zygophyllum obtusum, Vic, ; valleys of the eastern slopes of 

 Hala range ; plants gregarious, herbaceous, decumbent, pale green. 

 Leaves fleshy, simple, spatulate-linear, blunt, or rounded at apex, 

 sessile and subsessile, stipulae acuminate, scales at base of stamens 

 deeply bifid. Capsule deeply 5 wing-lobed, 5-celled, each cell opening 

 inwards with 2 — 3 pendent seeds. Flowers short pedicelled, yellow. 



26. Seetzenia lanatum, "Wild. ; all rocky places in Sinde. The 

 stamens in the Sinde plant are most certainly alternate with the sepals 

 of calyx, and not opposite to them ; some doubt may exist with respect 

 to the identity of this plant with that from Sierra Leone, I therefore 

 give my note of it. 



Plant spreading, semi-erect, stems and branches flexuose, woolly at 

 the joints within the stipulse, younger branches under surface of leaves, 

 and their margins papillose from sessile glands, otherwise smooth, 

 leaves petioled, opposite, 3 foliate, midleafet obovate, often retuse, 



