Capt. N. Vicary^s Notes on the Botany of Sinde. 431 
BoRAGINEiE. 
55. Heliotr opium Rotleri : Kurrachee. 
56. Echium ? : Hala range. I am unable to refer this to any 
of the many described species, and therefore attach my note. 
Plant fruticose, erect, about a foot in height, growing from 
fissures in rocks. Younger stems, leaves and calyces densely 
clothed with short appressed strigse. Leaves five to six lines 
long, ligulate-linear, blunt-pointed, sessile, alternate. Racemes 
simple, many-flowered; flowers solitary, sessile, secund, bluish 
white, bracts like the leaves but smaller, bracteoles none, pedi- 
cels short, adherent to rachis for half their length. Calyx with 
blunt linear unequal segments (sometimes only four, the fourth 
broader) ; tube of the corolla ten-nerved with a ring of hairs within 
at base, smooth in the middle, and the faux closed with hairs which 
indistinctly form five very small tubes between the anthers ; lobes 
of limb patent, blunt-ovate, slightly auricled at base (one lobe 
often broader). Margins minutely and remotely toothed. Sta- 
mens not exsert, filaments very short, anthers mutic, linear-ob- 
long blunt and undivided at base, style shortly exsert, its base 
becoming angular in seed ; stigma peltate capitate with two mi- 
nute central points ; achenia rather smooth with an incurved 
point, one or two, often only one maturing, attached to base of 
style, perforation at base oblong triangular. 
57. Trichodesma Indica\ Sinde passim. 
58. Trichodesma Africanum, R. B. ? : Hala mountains. 
I have referred this to the above with some doubt ; it has the 
same prickly hispid habit, but differs in some particulars ; plant 
growing from fissures in rocks, erect, 1 to feet. Leaves and 
stems dark green, hispid from hard white prickle-bearing calli, 
leaves opposite at the divisions of the racemes, otherwise alter- 
nate, upper leaves subsessile, lanceolate, acute, prickles longer on 
the margins and midrib beneath. Racemes lax, the lower ones 
from opposite axils, upper from alternate axils and terminal ; 
peduncles usually three-flowered, lengthening with the en- 
larging calyx in seed ; bracteoles none ; calyx rigid, hairy, five- 
angled with rounded auricles, segments acute, corolla blue with 
caudate lobes, stigma simple, blunt, pedicels lengthened with the 
much-increased and nutant calyx in seed, achenia four, subtri- 
gonal, the outer faces concave, marginate, the margin acutely 
serrulate with slightly glochidiate teeth. 
My specimens do not exhibit the lower leaves. 
Labiat^e. 
59. Salvia jEgyptiaca, Linn. : slopes of Hala mountains. 
60. Salvia pumila^ Benth : slopes of Hala mountains. 
