1164 Notes on the Botany of Sinde, [Nov. 



ovulse 4, styles 2, divergent, filiform, stigmata discoid orbicular, con- 

 tinuous (not peltate). Capsule chartaceous, dry hairy towards apex, 

 longer than the dry calyx, 2-celled, sept membranous, 4 valved, seeds 

 from 2 to 3, oblong, black, very minutely scrobiculate, of a nutty hard- 

 ness. 



50. Evolvulus linifolius, base of Halas. 



5 1 . Cressa Cretica, Var : Indica ; all Sinde. 



Sccevolacece. 



52. Scsevola Taccada, Roxb. tops of sand hills near Kurrachee. 



Plantaginece. 



53. Plantago amplexicaulis, Cuv. Hala mountains. 



Plumb aginece. 



54. iEgialites obovata, Vic. : sand hills, Kurrachee, shrub of 2 feet, 

 stems ligneous, annulate with the ensheathing bases of fallen leaves, 

 densely foliaceous upwards, leaves blunt cuneate-obovate, retuse, glau- 

 cous hoary, smooth, articulated to the sheaths at base, spikes paniculate, 

 flexuose, terminal flowers secund, utriculus bursting at apex into 5 

 short acute teeth. 



Boraginece. 



55. Heliotropium Rotleri. Kurrachee. 



56. Echium ? Hala Range. I am unable to refer this to any of 

 the many described species, and therefore attach my note. 



Plant fruticose, erect, about a foot in height, growing from fissures 

 in rocks. Younger stems, leaves and calyces densely clothed with 

 short appressed strigee. Leaves 5 — 6 lines long, ligulate-linear, blunt 

 pointed, sessile, alternate. Ptacemes simple, many flowered; flowers 

 solitary, sessile, secund, bluish white, bracts like the leaves but smaller, 

 bracteolse none, pedicels short, adherent to rachis for half their length. 

 Calyx with blunt linear unequal segments (sometimes only 4, the 

 fourth broader) ; corol tube 10-nerved with a ring of hairs within at 

 base, smooth in the middle and the faux closed with hairs which indis- 

 tinctly form 5 very small tubes between the anthers ; lobes of limb 

 patent, blunt ovate, slightly auricled at base (one lobe often broader). 

 Margins minutely and remotely toothed. Stamens not exsert, filaments 

 very short, anthers mutic, linear oblong blunt and undivided at base, 

 style shortly exsert, its base becoming angular in seed ; stigma peltate 

 capitate with two minute central points, achenise rather smooth with 



