1 162 Notes on the Botany of Sinde. [Nov. 



31. Crotolaria oxalidifolia, Vic. : eastern base of Hala range. Pros- 

 trate or semi-erect, with branches from 6 to 8 inches long, all parts 

 clothed with appressed strigose hairs, stipulee lance-linear, adnate ; 

 leaves petioled, 3 foliate, leafets shortly petiololate, midleafet obcor- 

 date, lateral leafets oblique, obovate, blunt, peduncles slender, leaf op- 

 posed, legume sessile linear, trigone-hairy, 9-seeded and constricted 

 between the seeds. 



32. Tavernieria nummularia, D. C. ; Hala mountains, near Deyrah. 



33. Alhagi maurorum, Tourn ; Sinde passim. 



34. Cassia obovata, Collad. Sinde passim ; this plant is also abun- 

 dant in the Punjaub. 



35. Adenanthera pavoniana ? Near villages, cultivated ? 



Plants of this order are comparitively rare in Sinde ; my herbarium 

 contains only four others, and two of these are Indigoferee. 



UrticacecE. 



36. Forskalea ovata, Vic : Hala mountains. Plant rising erect to two 

 feet, all parts clothed with sharp hooked hairs, leaves alternate, triple- 

 nerved, white, tomentose beneath excepting the nerves, lower ones broad 

 ovate, upper ones ovate, all narrowed at base into the petioles and 

 grossly dentate ; involucres of 4 — 7, linear spatulate lobes. This 

 plant comes near F. tenacissima, and perhaps may be a broad-leaved, 

 variety of it ? 



Aristolochiaceae. 



37. Aristolochia bracteata ; Lower Sinde. 



Chenopodiaceae. 



38. Salsola Indica. Sinde desert and Halas. 



39. Salsola stricta ? Upper and Lower Sinde. 



40. Anabasis florida, M. B. Borders of Sinde desert, and banks 

 of Indus to near Bhawulpoor. 



41. Atriplex verruciferum, M. B. ? Sand hills near Kurrachee. 

 I have doubtfully refered this as above, but it is probably a new spe- 

 cies. The whole plant is lepidate-hoary and shrubby. Leaves short 

 petioled, oblong, ovate, and obovate, blunt, narrowed at base into the 

 petioles, lower leaves often remotely toothed. Upper leaves entire, 

 valves of fruit orbicular with reflexed entire margins, and subcordate 

 bases, lepidate otherwise smooth. Stamens of the male flowers 5. 



