1166 Notes on the Botany qfSin.de. [Nov. 



Verbenacece. 



62. Verbena officinalis 1 Spurs of the Hala mountains, Lower Sinde. 

 I have refered this doubtfully to V. officinalis. The foliage of my 

 specimens is from the ends of the flowering branches. The leaves are 

 petioled, opposite and alternate, both surfaces shortly pilose, ovate and 

 broad-ovate, blunt or emarginate, 5 -nerved, margin serrate with the 

 three serratures at apex larger. 



Scrophularince. 



63. Linaria sindensis, Vic. : Base of Hala mountains, Upper and 

 Lower Sinde. This plant is extremely like L. triphylla. Herbaceous, 

 stems procumbent, or semi-erect, 8 to 10 inches ; leaves scattered, soli- 

 tary, glaucous, entire, ovate narrowed into and winging the petioles ; 

 apices soft -pointed ; young leaves often shortly pubescent ; flowers pur- 

 ple tinged, yellow, subsessile, axillary, solitary, bracteolae none ; upper 

 lobe of calyx foliaceous, broad-ovate, greatly exceeding the other 4 ; 

 linear lanceolate lobes, lower stamens with their anthers united ; stigma 

 simple ; capsule obliquely globular, 2-celled, upper cell abortive, lower 

 cell many- seeded, bursting irregularly ; seeds conic. Testa spongy, 

 furrowed. 



Linaria ramosissima, Wall. : Hala mountains ; the Sinde plant is soft- 

 ly pilose, in other respects it is the same. 



Anticharis. Endlich : Hala mountains. 



A. Viscosa, Vic. : This plant belongs most certainly to Endlicher's 

 genus, and probably to the very species, but as I have no means of re- 

 fering to the specific characters given, I have allowed my Herbarium 

 name to stand for the present. 



The Sinde plant is so viscous that everything adheres to it. 

 Flowers blue, leaves ovate-lanceolate, narrowed into the short petioles : 

 pedicels short, minutely bibracteolate above the middle seeds : truncate 

 oblong, longitudinally grooved with minute transverse striae. 



Solanacece. 



Solanum Forskalii, Bun : cordatum, Fors : Hala mountains ; both 

 species appear to be different forms of the same plant ; our Sinde plant 

 is sometimes prickly, sometime not, the leaves are variable also. Stems 

 slender ; prickles both curved and straight, near the ends of the branches 

 only ; young shoots and leaves starry pubescent, old leaves smooth, 

 round-cordate or subcordate at base, narrowed into the petioles ; mar- 



