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Rubia.) LXXV. RUBIACEX. (J. D. Hooker.) 203 
have hispid branches and leaves pubescent beneath; they have neither flowers nor 
fruit. 
2. R. tinctorum, Linn.; DC. Prodr. iv. 589; scandent, leaves sub- 
sessile 4-6 in a whorl elliptic or lanceolate acuminate penni-nerved, nerves very 
obscure. Boiss, FI. Or. ui. 17. 
Kasuurg, Falconer, and Sinpu, Stocks; cultivated in both.—DisTRrB. Affghan- 
istan and westward to Spain, cultivated or wild. 
Stem elongate; angles scabrid or prickly. Leaves 2-4 by 1-11 in., acuminate, 
margins and nerves beneath prickly. Cymes terminal, panicled, spreading, leafy. 
Corolla rotate; lobes ovate-laneeolate, apiculate. Anthers linear-oblong. Fruit 4-¢ 
in. diam., didymous and globose. l 
3. R. himalayense, Klotzsch in Pr. Wald. Reise Bot. 86, t. 76; leaves 
elliptic-ovate or obovate subacute or tip ronnded often apiculate penni-nerved, 
nerves very obscure. R. aculeata, Royle Ill. 237, name only. 
Western Himaraya; Kunawur, Royle, Munro. Kashmir, Falconer.—DisTn15. 
Affghanistan. 
This differs markedly from R. tinctorum in its slender habit, shorter broader 
more distinctly petioled leaves, which are also membranous and are usually obovate 
with a rounded apiculate tip; the corolla, too, is more funnel-shaped. Griffith 
observes that it occurs in hedges and fields, and that he did not see it cultivated, 
whereas he marks R. tinctorum as cultivated. 
4. R. sikkimensis, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1874, ii. 188; scandent, 
scabrid, leaves sessile 4 in a whorl elliptic or ovate-lanceolate acute or acumi- 
nate 3-5-nerved from the base. 
Eastern HiMALAYA; from Sikkim, alt. 2-5000 ft., J. D. H., &c.; and Bhotan, 
Griffith, to the Mishmi mountains (Upper Assam). 
A stout climber, branches retrorsely seabrid. Leaves 3-6 by 1-2 in., sometimes 
cordate, scabrid on both surfaces, sometimes pubescent beneath, base acute or 
rounded; nerves deeply impressed above. Cymes large, panicled; branches short, 
spreading, leafy. Corolla rotate, lobes subacute. Anthers globose. Fruit j in., 
smooth.—-The handsomest species of the genus. 
5. R. Edgeworthii, Hook. f. ; scandent, pubescent all over, leaves short- 
petioled 4 in a whorl lanceolate acuminate 3-5-nerved from the base. 
Western Himataya; Kumaon, alt. 3—4000 ft., Edgeworth, Strachey § Winter- 
bottom, Madden. 
Branches hardly seabrid, 8-ribbed, clothed, as are all parts (but less so on the 
leaves above), with white spreading pubescence. Leaves 2-3 by j-$ in., membra- 
nous, margins hardly scabrid, nerves deeply impressed above. Cymes as in R. sikki- 
mensis, but more slender, and the branches ascending.  Corolla-lobes lanceolate, 
acuminate. Anthers ellipsoid. Fruit glabrous. 
6. R. angustissima, Wall. Cat. 6207; scandent, slightly scabrid, 
shining, leaves sessile 4-8 in a whorl very narrowly linear keeled nerveless. G. 
Don Gen. Syst. iii. 643; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, ii. 162. R. chareefolia, 
Wall. Cat. 6210; G. Don l. c. 
CENTRAL and Eastern HrwArAYA, ascending to 4000 ft. ; Nipal, Wallich ; Sikkim, 
J. D. H., C. B. Clarke.--DisTRIB. Ava. 
Stem excessively branched, ribbed, branches with short internodes. Leaves 1-4 
by -è in., young filiform, thin and brittle, flat above, midrib strong beneath, smooth 
or sparingly seabrid. Cymes very small, often of only 3—5-flowers on a peduncle not 
longer than the small floral leaves or (the 9?) on a slender peduncle j in. or less. 
Flowers minute. Corolla-lobes ovate, acute. Anthers ellipsoid. Fruit 4 in. diam. 
when didymous, on a slender peduncle, solitary, globose or didymous, smooth.— 
Habit and aspect of a climbing Asparagus. 
