420 Botanical Notices fr'om Spain. rocky soil comes up from the adjoining mountains which bound Scinde on the north. All is bare, no trees and no surface vegeta-tion, but great abundance of the Euphorbia nereifolia, which, like a Cactus, fleshy and leafless, spreads its whitened stems and withered stumps in patches as large as a small haystack. There are a few gardens in which grow tamarinds, mangoes, bheres (^Zizyphus vul-garis), and the date-palm (Phoenix sylvestris) springs up wild in every compound. However, Sir Charles Napier is doing great things ; has planted rows of young trees over all the avenues and streets ; and has formed a capital Government garden, which is a depot for garden shrubs, and supplies the troops with fresh European vegetables. The favourite garden shrubs in Kurrachee are Ricinus communis, jEschynofni/ne Sestan, Parkinsonia aculeata, and, for hedges, the milk-bush (jE'wpAorZ'm Tirucalli) ,\Nit\i\i^ leafless, rush-like, flexible branches. The peepul and banyan (Ficus religiosa and F. indica), and the bheres {Zizyphus vulgaris and Z. Jujuba^, are the trees planted in the avenues. On our first march fi*om Kurrachee, about eight miles out, the Indus soil and vegetation commenced ; dry creeks, dry water-furrows and a loose sandy soil, characterized by tamarisk jungle (ramttnaj^a/Z/ca and y. dioica) and Salvadora persica ; low bushes of Acacia (arabica. Catechu), and Mimosa (rubicaulis, &c.), also abundance of the camel-thorn (Alhagi Maurorum) . Among herbaceous plants 1 occasionally found a Polygonum, a Gnaphalium, a Solanum, &c., and above all these grows everywhere the Capparis aphylla, which I have told you before is also very common in Gu-zerat. We passed to Tattah on the Indus, and went up the right bank as far as Hyderabad, where we crossed over to the left bank and proceeded to Rorea, which is on the side opposite to Sukkur. Before coming to Hyderabad we crossed rocky ground for some marches, where the Hala mountains come down to the river bank. Here we met with the Euph. nereifolia again, and two apparently new Zygo-phyllaceous plants, at least I do not find them in Indian floras. On the banks of the Indus from Torrock to Sukkur grow Ranunculus indicus, Roxb., a Potentilla, and Rumex acutus ! About Sukkur the river runs through an isolated tract of limestone hills, and the date-palm is very luxuriant, covering acres of low ground by the river ; it is now in flower. LIII. — Botanical Notices from Spain. By MORITZ WiLLKOMM*. [Continued from p. 347.] No. XIII. Seville, October 25, 1845. After a hasty visit to the unimportant Sierra de Elvira, which rises out of the middle of the plain of Granada, and is distinguished by the unusually frequent occurrence of Chrysocome verticalis. Lag., I * Translated from the Botanische Zeitung, Jan. 23, 1846.
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