Capt. N. Vicary’s Notes on the Botany of Sinde. 423 
I have already noticed Monsonia as existing on the western bor- 
ders of the desert ; I also found it in desert places in Lower Sinde. 
Antichorus [Corchorus) depressus abounds on the desert bor- 
ders^ particularly at Khangurh ; Physalis somnifera is also found 
here, and extends into the hill valleys. In Lower Sinde, south of 
Sewan, a species of Euphorbia, very like E. pentagona, abounds 
in many places forming impervious patches of jungle : near 
Kotree, and also between that place and Sewan, I found an 
Ochradenus,” I believe identical with the Egyptian O. baccatus, 
Delisle. Fagonia is abundant throughout Sinde, both in the hills 
and plains ; I have no specimens, but considered the species to be 
F. Mysorensis ; the flowers are pale purple. 
At Meher and some other places a species of sugar-cane is in 
cultivation, which I believe to be unknown in India ; it is called 
Buhadooree the stems are slender and trailing ; they grow to 
ten or fifteen feet in length, the base not being thicker than a 
finger ; ten or twelve are usually fastened together so as to afford 
mutual support ; the cane is said to yield the best sugar, but in 
small quantity. Cleome ruta, Jacqt., is abundant on the rocks 
at Sukkur and throughout Sinde. Typha angustifolia is found 
on most lands subject to the annual flooding of the Indus, and 
from it vast quantities of mats are manufactured. A species of 
Adenanthera, I believe A. pavonia, is often found near villages in 
Lower Sinde ; this tree has a weeping habit, and at a distance 
looks not unlike Salix Babylonica, A remarkable species of 
Acacia is also found near villages ; in its mode of growth and 
appearance it strongly resembles the funereal cypress. The 
Sindeans call it Cauboolee Baubool,^^ a name which points to 
its foreign origin. 
I was not fortunate enough to see this tree either in blossom 
or fruit. Between Kotree and Km-rachee I noticed a species of 
wild cotton trailing up trees to twenty feet ; I was sick in a doo- 
lee at the time and unable to take specimens. 
Bodoncea Burmanniana, and I believe another species, are found 
in Lower Sinde. Aristolochia bracteata, and a Verbena akin to 
V. officinalis, but perhaps distinct, exist on the smaller hills of 
Lower Sinde ; Orthanthera viminea abounds throughout Sinde 
and is a very useful plant ; like many others of its order, the bark 
yields a strong fibre ; in this shrub it is of greater length than 
perhaps in any other Asclepiad. I am not aware of the fibre 
being used by the Sindeans, but the thin osier-like branches are 
bruised, and twisted into a strong coarse kind of rope in common 
use. 
There are also numerous well-known Indian forms of plants 
in the plains of Sinde, particularly near the cultivated districts, 
of which I took neither notes nor specimens ; the date flourishes 
