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Capt. N. Vicary^s Notes on the Botany of Sinde. 
ful]y referred this to G. sapida, but I suspect it is a very differ- 
ent plant ; my specimens are not sufficient to determine ; the 
petals bear a large scale at base and are bifid with toothed lobes. 
The berry is red and eatable when ripe. 
PoRTULACE^. 
19. Orygia decumhens, Porsk. : eastern base of Hala mountains. 
The sepals and petals are red, and the stems and leaves are 
often coloured ; this plant does not seem to differ much from O. 
trianthemoideSj Heyne. 
PARONYCHIEAi. 
20. Cometes Surattensis : all Sinde. 
Rutace^. 
21. Peganum Harmala : all Sinde. 
22. Haplophyllum tuberculatum, Andr. Juss. : near Deyrah, 
Boogtee Beloch hills. 
Zygophylle^. 
23. Trihulus alatus, Del. : eastern base of Hala mountains. 
24. Fagonia Mysorensis : Sukkur and all Sinde. 
25. Zygophyllum obtusum, Vic. : valleys of the eastern slopes 
of Hala range; plants gregarious, herbaceous, decumbent, pale 
green. Leaves fleshy, simple, spatulate-linear, blunt, or rounded 
at apex, sessile and subsessile, stipules acuminate, scales at base of 
stamens deeply bifid. Capsule deeply five-wing-lobed, five-celled, 
each cell opening inwards, with two to three pendent seeds. Flow- 
ers shortly pedicelled, yellow. 
26. Seezenia lanatum, Wild. : all rocky places in Sinde. The 
stamens in the Sinde plant are most certainly alternate with the 
sepals of calyx, and not opposite to them ; some doubt may exist 
with respect to the identity of this plant with that from Sierra 
Leone, I therefore give my note of it. 
Plant spreading, semi-erect, stems and branches flexuose, woolly 
at the joints within the stipules; younger branches, under surface 
of leaves, and their margins papillose from sessile glands, other- 
wise smooth; leaves petioled, opposite, three- foliate, midleaflet 
obovate, often retuse, lateral leaflets oblique-ovate, all entire and 
shortly apiculate, stipules linear, often uniting with the margins 
of the stipules of the opposite leaf and thus appearing interpetio- 
lary ; flowers green tinged with yellow, axillary, solitary, pedicels 
in fruit longer than the leaves. Calyx five-parted with a valvate 
sestivation, lobes lanceolate, each bearing opposite the centre of its 
base an adherent scale half its length and with free shortly fimbri- 
ate margins ; stamens five, hypogynous, opposite to the divisions 
of calyx; filaments slightly flattened, smooth, tapering; style five- 
