Capt. N. Vicary^s Notes on the Botany of Sinde. 421 
Orygia trianthemoides is found near the base of the hills^ He- 
ptophyllum tuberculatum in the upper valleys^ and Peganum Har- 
mala everywhere. I found Tribulus alatus, Del., and Calligonum, 
both Egyptian forms, at the base of the hills ; a species of Zygo~ 
phyllum, differing little from Z. simplex, is found forming dense 
matted beds near springs in the upper valleys. Seezenia, a 
Sierra Leone genus, is abundant both in the hills and at their 
bases j also a new species of the Cape genus Monsonia. Neu- 
radaprocumbens, an Egyptian or Arabian plant, is plentiful on the 
borders of the Sinde desert, and also in the hills, is particularly 
plentiful too near Shahpoor on the western border of the desert. 
On the sand-hills at the same place I found species of Rhazya ; 
it is a pretty small shrub with so much the habit of the garden 
oleander, that our sepoys called it ^^Bun Kunale.^^ It is also 
found throughout the hills, but invariably in sandy places. 
A species of Forskalea with ovate leaves is abundant in some 
places amongst the hills ; the leaves of this plant adhere to every- 
thing with great tenacity, and can only be removed piecemeal ; 
the whole plant is clothed with sharp hooked hairs. 
A Sophora, with pretty yellow laburnum-like flowers, is also 
found amongst rocks near water, accompanied by Linaria ramo- 
sissima, and a variety of Lindenbergia urticcefolia. Several spe- 
cies of Salsola are also abundant ; one in particular in the hilly 
country with terete pungent leaves and axillary capitate inflo- 
rescence, of which unfortunately I am without specimens. A new 
species of the African genus Limeum is also found on the skirts 
of the Halas. Plantago amplexicaulis is found in the inner val- 
leys along with Haplophyllum. An Echium of the Cape type, and 
possibly new, and Trichodesma Africanum, B.B., are abundant 
in the fissures of rocks amidst the higher hills. 
Salvia primula- jEgyptiaca, and a new species of the same 
section, are widely spread through the hills. A new Linaria, 
very like L. triphylla, is found from the base of the hills upwards. 
Solanum Forskalii, or a species akin to it, is also abundant. 
Hyoscyamus muticus is found in moist places. An Asclepiad, with 
the habit of Orthanthera viminea, is very abundant on the mar- 
gins of water-courses ; it forms a large bushy shrub, and I 
suspect is the same plant described by my friend Dr. Falconer as 
“ Campelepis.” Cometes Surattensis is found occasionally along 
the whole base of the Hala mountains ; a Caralluma or some 
nearly allied plant is abundant on the higher ranges, but I never 
saw it in flower ; a new and pretty species of Cleome is found in 
the passes leading into the Hala range at a low elevation : with 
this I close my notice of the hilly region of Sinde. 
The plains of Sinde are of a very variable character, some 
places being very fertile, and others barren, and naked desert 
