246 LXX, RUBIACEH (HIERN). [ Galium. 
Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, Mann /; Cameroons Mountains, Mann! 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper ! _— . 
Var. 8. hamatum. Fruit somewhat tuberculate, not hispid or sparingly so.—-G. 
hamatwm, Hochst. in Hb. Schimp. Abyss. ii. n. 675 (1842); A. Rich. Pl. Abyss. i. 
p. 345. 
Wile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! i. n. 675, 1853. n. 610; 1862. n. 786, 
Roth! \ 
This species is very widely spread over the world. 
4. @. Mollugo, Linn. Sp. Pl, ed. i, p. 107 (1753); var. 
(G. erectum, Huds.) Glabrous or very nearly so, perennial. Stems 
erect or ascending, slender, not tumid at the nodes. Leaves narrowly 
linear, 8-6 in a whorl, acute, about 34 in. long, attenuate at the base, 
finely scabrid on the margin, 1-nerved. Flowers white, small, in small 
divaricately branched terminal panicles. Fruit very small, glabrous, 
subrugose, on short straight slender divaricate pedicels. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! 
Widely distributed over Europe, &c. 
5. @. simense, Hochst. in Hb. Schimp. Abyss. ii. n. 548 (1842). 
Glabrous throughout, apparently annual, cespitosely branched from 
the crown of the root. Branches decumbent or prostrate, a few inches 
or a foot long, angular. Leaves 6 in a whorl, sublinear, attenuate 
towards the base, mucronate, }—4 in. long, l-nerved. Flowers purplish, 
3-4 together on short peduncles terminating short lateral branches. 
Corolla } in. diam. Fruit smooth, ;1, in. long, } in. diam.—A. Rich. 
Fi. Abyss. i. p. 344; non Fresen. 
Wile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Nubia, Soturba ex Schweinf. Fl. Sot. p. 17. 
6. G. Decaisnei, Boiss. Diagn., Ser. 1., 6, p. 69; f. latifolum, 
Boiss. Fl. Orient. iii. p. 77. Annual, glabrous or nearly 80, 6-9 in. 
high, branched from the base, erect or decumbent. Branches very 
slender. Upper leaves usually 6 together, setaceous-linear, narrow 
at both ends, attenuate towards the base, 1-nerved, }-4 in. long, mar- 
gins revolute, lower leaves spathulate, much broader, y'5—1's 1- b é 
base quasi-petiolate. Panicles terminal, very divaricately branched, no 
leafy towards the apex; pedicels very slender, 3} in. long. Flowers 
minute, purple (ex Boissier). Ovary glabrous, smooth.—Cfr. Galium, 
sp. tenuifol., Schweinf. Fl. Soturba, p. 17, n. 170. 
Wile Land. Nubia, Soturba, Schweinfurth! 
Occurs also in the Levant and Persia. 
Vaillantia hispida, Linn., a common weed in the Levant, is given by Boissier, 
Orient. iii. p. 83, as extending to Nubia. The genus differs from Rubia and Galt be 
by its ternate flowers, with connate at length thickened and decurved pedice 
lateral flowers being male only and the middle one hermaphrodite and fertile. 
The following genus is of unknown position in the Order. 
79. Benzonta, Schum. Beskr. Guin. Pl. 113. 
Calyx globose, very small; limb 5-dentate, lobes erect, rather acute. , Tlate- 
tubular, coriaceous, glabrous ; tube cylindrical ; limb 6-cleft, when closed capite 
