430 Capt. N. Vicary’s N'otes on the Botany of Smde. 
abundant, forming small trees of ten or twelve feet high, with a 
diameter of six to ten inebes at base ; when in full flower it looks 
rather pretty. 
Menispermace.e. 
44. Cocculus leceba ?, D.C. : Lower Sinde. 
Myrsinace^. 
45. ^giceras fragrans, Kon. : mud-flats, Kurrachee harbour. 
CoNVOLVULACE^. 
46. Ipomcea bilohata : sand-hills, Kurraehee. 
47. Convolvulus lanuginosus, Desr. ; Hala mountains. 
48. Convolvulus parvifloruSj Vahl: base of mountains. 
49. Breweria evolvuloides ?, Chois. ; Hala mountains. As I feel 
considerable uncertainty about this plant, I add my note. 
Shrub erect, of one to two feet, stems slender, ligneous, all parts 
densely clothed with a sericeous pubescence. Leaves very shortly 
petioled, elliptic, upper ones lanceolate, entire, mucronate and 
emarginate from the reflexed mucro, triple-nerved, pubescence 
more dense beneath. Flowers axillary, one to three together, sub- 
sessile. Calyx persistent, not enlarging, with two linear bracts at 
base ; sepals, three exterior and two interior, a little shorter, lan- 
ceolate acute, hairy beneath. Corolla with a deeply five-lobed 
limb, the lobes hairy beneath. Stamens scarcely exsert, filaments 
broad at base with five short teeth alternating, anthers reniform- 
cordate, ovary two-celled, ovules four, styles two, divergent, fili- - 
form, stigmas discoid orbicular, continuous (not peltate) . Capsule 
chartaceous, dry, hairy towards apex, longer than the dry calyx, 
two-celled, septa membranous, four-valved ; seeds from two to 
three, oblong, black, very minutely scrobiculate, of a nutty 
hardness. 
50. Evolvulus linifolius : base of Halas. 
51. Cressa Cretica, var. Indica : all Sinde. 
Sc^VOLACEiE. 
52. Sc( 2 vola Taccada, Roxb. : tops of sand-hills near Kurrachee. 
Plantagine^. 
53. Plantago amplexicaulis, Cav. : Hala mountains. 
Plumbagine^. 
54. jEgialitis obovata, Vic. : sand-hills, Kurrachee. Shrub of 
two feet, stems ligneous, annulate with the ensheathing bases of 
fallen leaves, densely foliaceous upwards ; leaves blunt cuneate- 
obovate, retuse, glaucous hoary, smooth, articulated to the sheaths 
at base, spikes paniculate, flexuose, terminal flowers secund, utri- 
culus bursting at the apex into five short acute teeth. 
