1847.] Notes on the Botany of Sinde. 1 1 63 



Phytolaccacece. 



42. Limeum obovatum, Vic. ; skirts of the Hala mountains near 

 Kotree ; roots ligneous, descending deep into the soil, stems herbaceous 

 prostrate, minutely pubescent. Leaves cuneate obovate, and ovate, 

 obtuse with a point, minutely pubescent, flowers leaf opposed. 3 — 5 

 together, very shortly pedunculate, pedicels minutely bibracteolate. 

 This plant comes near L. Capense. 



Polygonacece. 



43. Calligonum polygonoides ? All Sinde. The specific characters 

 of this curious genus are founded on peculiarities of the fruit ; unfor- 

 tunately I have never seen the fruit of our Sinde shrub, and have 

 merely refered it to C. Polygonoides, because that plant makes a nearer 

 approach in habitat to Sinde than C. Pallasia. This shrub is common 

 throughout Sinde, and is found on the banks of the Indus nearly as 

 far up as Bhawulpoor ; near Shahpoor, at the eastern base of the Hala 

 mountains, it is most abundant, forming small trees of 10 or 12 feet 

 high, with a diameter of 6 to 10 inches at base; when in full flower it 

 looks rather pretty. 



MenispermacecE. 



44. Cocculus leceba ? D. C. ; lower Sinde. 



Myrsinacece. 



45. iEgiceras fragrans, Kon : mud flats Kurmchee harbour. 



Convohulacece. 



46. Ipomsea bilobata ; sand hills, Kurrachee. 



47. Convolvulus lanuginosus, Desr : Hala mountains. 



48. Convolvulus parviflorus, Vahl. ; base of mountains. 



49. Breweria evolvuloides ? Chois ; Hala mountains. As I feel 

 considerable uncertainty about this plant I add my note. 



Shrub erect of 1 — 2 feet, stems slender ligneous, all parts densely 

 clothed with a sericeous pubes. Leaves very shortly petioled, elliptic, 

 upper ones lanceolate, entire, mucronate and emarginate from the 

 reflexed mucro, triple-nerved, pubes more dense beneath. Flowers 

 axillary, I to 3 together, subsessile. Calyx persistent, not enlarging, 

 with 2 linear bracts at base, sepals, 3 exterior and 2 interior, a little 

 shorter, lanceolate acute, hairy out. Corol with a deeply 5 lobed limb, 

 the lobes hairy out. Stamens scarce exsert, filaments broad at base 

 with 5 short tee^th alternating, anthers reniform-cordate, ovary 2-celled, 



