428 Capt. N. Vicary^s Notes on the Botany of Sinde. 
cleft almost to the base, with long linear terete lobes ; stigmas 
capitate, rough ; ovary oblong, five-celled and ribbed. Ovules five, 
pendent from the apex of columella. Capsule five-furrowed and 
seeded, detaching from base into five cocci, and thus remaining 
for a long time pendent by short funiculi from the seeds to the 
apex of columella ; the cocci are internally bivalved and perforated 
on the inner angles of apices for the passage of the funiculi. Co- 
lumella persistent for a long time after the seeds have fallen, 
five-angled, with the apex discoid, five-lobed, and with the pla- 
centas in the sinuses between the lobes ; seeds brown, oblong, 
acute at both ends, with a scanty green arillus. 
GsRANIACEiE. 
27. Monsonia Asiatica, Vic. : eastern base of Hala mountains 
and Lower Sinde. 
I believe that this is the first species of Monsonia found out of 
Africa. The Sinde plant belongs to the section Holopetalum.^^ 
Plant semi-erect, herbaceous, clothed everywhere with long, 
white, silky hairs ; leaves long-petioled, cordate-ovate, blunt, 
irregularly dentate, seven-nerved, stipules herbaceous, linear-lan- 
ceolate ; peduncles slender, two- to five-flowered, with from four 
to six unequal linear bracts at apex, pedicels slender, flowers blue. 
Calyx sepals apiculate, three-nerved, petals entire, stamens pen- 
tadelphous in a double series. Capsule very longly rostrate. 
Rosacea — S uh-ord. Neurade^. 
28. Neuy'ada procumbenSj Linn. : borders of Sinde desert, at 
base of Hala mountains, and near Shahpoor. This curious plant 
has heretofore been noted as a native of Egypt, Numidia and 
Arabia. 
Leguminos^. 
29. Sophora tomentosa, Linn. ? At Coombe in the Boogtee 
Beloch hills, a shrub of four feet. 
30. Crotolaria arida, Boyle : borders of desert. 
31. Crotolaria oxalidifolia, Vic. : eastern base of Hala range. 
Prostrate or semi-erect, with branches from six to eight inches 
long, all parts clothed with appressed strigose hairs, stipules 
lanceo-linear, adnate ; leaves petioled, three-foliate, leaflets shortly 
petiolulate, midleaflet obcordate, lateral leaflets oblique, obovate, 
blunt; peduncles slender, opposed to a leaf; legume sessile linear, 
trigonous, hairy, nine-seeded and constricted between the seeds. 
32. Tavernieria nummularia, D.C. : Hala mountains, near 
Hey rah. 
33. Alhagi maurorum, Tourn. : Sinde passim. 
34. Cassia obovata, Collad. : Sinde passim ; this plant is also 
abundant in the Punjaiib. 
