Galium. | LXX. RUBIACEZ (HIERN). 245 
Stem branches and margins of leaves aculeate-sca- 
brid. Fruit hispid with hooked hairs or rarely 
glabrous. Panicles not divaricately branched . 3. G. Aparine. 
Stem and branches glabrous; margins of leaves 
finely scabrid. Fruit glabrous, subrugose. 
Panicles divaricately branched . . ee 
Flowers purplish, 3-4 together, or short peduncles 
terminating short axillary branches . . . . . 
Flowers purple in very divaricate slender terminal 
panicles; pedicels capillary. . . . . . . . 6. G. Decaisnei. 
4. G. Mollugo. 
5. G. simense. 
1. G. Biafre, Hiern. Root slender, cwspitosely branched at the 
apex. Branches creeping or scandent, hispid-hirsute, quadrangular, 
rather slender, leafy. Leaves quaternate, ovate-elliptical, acuminate- 
apiculate, wedge-shaped at the base, setulose, 3-nerved, 3-4 in. long. 
Flowers yellow, in terminal divaricately branched panicles. Fruit 
Ts in. diam., densely setose-hispid, on straight divaricate pedicels of 
3-4 in.—@. rotundifoliwm, var. foliis acutioribus, Hook. f. in Journ. 
Linn. Soc. Lond. vi. p. 11 and vii. p. 197; non Linn. 
Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, on the very top of Clarence Peak, Mann! Ca- 
meroon Mountains, 7-12,000 ft. alt., Mann! 
2. G. rotundifolium, Linn. Sp. Pl., ed. i., p. 108 (1753). Root 
Creeping, perennial. Stems slender, flaccid, angular, ascending or 
Prostrate, hispidulous. Leaves quaternate, oval, somewhat wedge- 
shaped at the base, obtuse and cuspidate-mucronate, 3-nerved, setulose 
on the margin and nerves, 4-# in. long. Flowers small, in terminal 
divaricately branched panicles. Corolla white. Fruit setose-hispid.— 
G. dasycarpum, Hochst. ex Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Athiop. p. 135. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper ! 
Oceurs also in Europe, the Cape de Verde Islands, Natal, &e. 
3. G. Aparine, Linn. Sp. Pl., ed. i. p. 108, (1753). Annual, 
flaccid, scandent. Stem and branches quadrangular, aculeate- 
Scabrid with short hairs directed downward or nearly glabrous, 
Somewhat hirsute about the nodes. Leaves 6-9 in a whorl, sublinear 
or narrowly elliptical, attenuate towards the base, mucronate, 1-nerved, 
5-1 in, long, sometimes rather smaller, margins retrorsely aculeate. 
lowers small; corolla ranging up to } in. diam., white or greenish ; 
the axillary peduncles rather longer than the leaves, the terminal ones 
Subpaniculate. Fruit yz} in. long, 1-4 in. diam., beset with hooked 
ristles or rarely glabrous, on erect divaricate pedicels. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Petit ! Schimper ! 
The following varieties may prove to be distinct species, as indeed they have 
often been regarded. 
1 Var. B. Vaillantii (DC.) | Fruit smaller, usually glabrous. Whole plant also 
“s8.——(. hamatum, Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Zthiop. 135 fide Vatke in Linnea xl. p. 198, 
non Hochst. 
Wile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper (ex Vatke). . hamat 
H ar. Y. spurium (L.) Fruit smooth, glabrous.—G. Aparine L., var. hamatum, 
ook, f, in Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond. vi. p. 2, vii. p. 197. G. simense, Fresen. in Mus, 
nekenb. ii. p. 165 (1837), non Hochst. 
