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lateral leafets oblique-ovate, all entire and shortly apiculate, stipulae 

 linear, often uniting with the margins of the stipulse of the opposite 

 leaf and thus appearing interpetiolary ; flowers green tinged yellow, 

 axillary, solitary, pedicels in fruit longer than the leaves. Calyx 5, 

 parted with a valvate cestivation, lobes lanceolate, each bearing opposite 

 its central base an adherent scale half its length and with free shortly 

 fimbriate margins, stamens 5, hypogynous, opposite to the divisions of 

 calyx, filaments slightly flattened, smooth, tapering, style 5-cleft 

 almost to the base, with long linear terete lobes, stigmata capitate, rough, 

 ovary oblong, 5-celled and ribbed. Ovula 5-pendent from the apex 

 of columella. Capsule 5-furrowed and seeded, detaching from base 

 into 5 cocci, and thus remaining for a long time pendent by short 

 funiculi from the seeds to the apex of columella ; the cocci are inter- 

 nally bivalved and perforated on the inner angles of apices for the pas- 

 sage of the funiculi. Columella persistent for a long time after the 

 seeds have fallen, 5-angled, with the apex discoid, 5-lobed and with 

 the placentae in the sinuses between the lobes ; seeds, brown, oblong, 

 acute at both ends, with a scanty green arillus. 



Geraniacece. 



27. Monsonia Asiatica, Vic. : eastern base of Hala mountains and 

 lower Sinde. 



I believe that this is the first species of Monsonia found out of Africa. 

 The Sinde plant belongs to the section "Holopetalum." Plant semi-erect, 

 herbaceous, clothed everywhere with long, white, silky hairs ; leaves 

 long-petioled, cordate-ovate, blunt, irregularly dentate, 7-nerved, 

 stipulse herbaceous, linear-lanceolate ; peduncles slender, 2 — 5 flowered, 

 with from 4 to 6 unequal linear bracts at apex, pedicels slender, flowers 

 blue. Calyx sepals apiculate, 3-nerved, petals entire, stamens pentadel- 

 phous in a double series. Capsule very longly rostrate. 

 Rosacece — Sub-Ord. Neuradece. 



28. Neurada procumbens, Lin. : borders of Sinde desert, at base 

 of Hala mountains, and near Shahpoor. This curious plant has here- 

 tofore been noted as a native of Egypt, Numidia and Arabia. 



Leguminosce. 



29. Sophora tomentosa, Lin. ? At Coombe in the Boogtee Beloch 

 hills, a shrub of 4 feet. 



30. Crotolaria arida, Royle : borders of desert. 



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