Capt. N. Vicary’s Notes on the Botany of Sinde. 433 
The Sinde plant is so viscous that everything adheres to it. 
Flowers blue; leaves ovate-lanceolate, narrowed into the short 
petioles : pedicels short, minutely bibracteolate above the middle : 
seeds truncate, oblong, longitudinally grooved with minute trans- 
verse strise. 
SoLANACE^. 
Solanum Forskalii, Dun.; cordatum, Fors. : Hala mountains. 
Both species appear to be different forms of the same plant ; our 
Sinde plant is sometimes prickly, sometimes not ; the leaves are 
variable also. Stems slender ; prickles both curved and straight, 
near the ends of the branches only ; young shoots and leaves 
starry pubescent, old leaves smooth, round-cordate or subcordate 
at base, narrowed into the petioles, margin entire or occasionally 
sinuate toothed; flowers rather longly pedicelled, blue ; the corolla 
greatly exceeding the half five-cleft calyx; berry red, smooth, 
rather larger than a pea. 
Physalis soranifera, var. fleccuosa : all Sinde and Hala moun- 
tains. 
Hyoscyamas muticus, Linn. Hala mountains. 
APOCYNEiE. 
Rhazya stricta, Decaisne. This shrub is abundant in the 
Hala mountains and at their eastern bases, but particularly at 
Shahpoor. It usually grows upon sand-hills, and has somewhat 
the habit of our garden oleander, but does not rise to more than 
three feet. The flowers are pale blue turning white by age. 
There is a small entire margined nectarium. 
AsCLEPIADEiE. 
Periploca aphylla, Dec. Bot. Jacq. All hilly parts of Sinde. 
This is my friend Dr. Falconer’s Campelepis, Ann. Nat. Hist, 
vol. X. p. 362. This shrub abounds in the Boogtee Beloch hills 
near Deyrah. 
The habit is that of Orthanthera viminea ; the branches are de- 
void of all pubescence. The leaves are linear-lanceolate (not ovate), 
and are seen only on the young surculi. The flowers are of a 
dark dull red colour ; the long uncinate filiform processes of the 
faucial corona are inflected over the genitalia in the earlier stages 
of the flower, but subsequently become reflexed through the divi- 
sions of the corolla. The pollen of this plant requires to be re- 
examined in the fresh flowers ; in my opinion it not only differs 
from that of Periploca, but from the pollen of every genus of the 
order. 
Orthanthera viminea. All Sinde. 
With few exceptions the above- noted plants are foreign to our 
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