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204. LXXV. RUBIACEE. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Rubia. 
7. R. tibetica, Hook. f.; erect, short, scabrid, leaves sessile opposite or 
4 in a whorl broadly ovate suborbicular or elliptic ovate or lanceolate, nerves 
obscure. 
Western Tiger; Nubra and Piti, alt. 10-14,000 ft., Thomson, Lance; Kulu, Hay ; 
Karakorum mountains, alt. 10,700 ft., CO. B. Clarke. 
Root (or rhizome?) long woody brown, sending up fascicles of short stout erect 
stems as thick as a crow-quill, and covered with smooth glistening white bark, from 
which again arise fascicles of erect annual simple or sparingly divided branches 6-10 
in. high; nodes of the stem below shortly sheathed with membranous bases of old 
leaves. Leaves 1-1 by 4-4 in, coriaceous, margins and midrib seabrid. Cymes 
axillary and terminal, shorter than the leaves, or flowers solitary on long axillary 
peduncles, Flowers rather large, } in. diam. Corolla-segments lanceolate, acute. 
Anthers globose. Fruit ẹ in. diam., smooth.—The habit of this species is very 
peculiar, like that of some Galia. i 
8. R. albicaulis, Boiss.; var. stenophylla, Boiss. Fl. Orient. iii. 19; 
scandent? scabrid or almost smooth, leaves sessile opposite or 4 in a whorl 
linear or linear-lanceolate rigid, nerves 3 from the base the lateral marginal. 
R. Kotschyi, Boiss. H. cc. 
Norti-western Inpra and Salt Range, alt. 2-8000 ft. ; Murree, Fleming ; Wuzu- 
ristan, Stewart.—Disrrin. Affghanistan, Persia. 
Stem woody below; branches rather stout, often white, quite smooth, upper green 
with white thickened angles. Leaves 1-4 by -4 in., midrib and thickened marginal 
nerve almost quite smooth. Cymes axillary and terminal, much shorter than the 
leaves, many-flowered; peduncles and pedicels stout. Flowers minute, yellow. 
Corolla-segments lanceolate, acuminate. Anthers ovoid. Fruit smooth.-—The Bowers 
of Doissier's specimen of his var. Kotschyi, from Schiras, are smaller and more 
rotate than Griffith’s Affghanistan ones, which he refers to it. They are funnel- 
shaped and glabrous in the Murree, &c., specimens. 
90. GA LIUM, Linn. 
Glabrous, hispid, scabrid or prickly erect or scandent weak herbs; branches 
square. Leaves 3 or more in a whorl, rarely opposite and stipulate, broad or 
narrow. Flowers minute, in axillary and terminal cymes or peduncles, white 
yellow or greenish; pedicel jointed with the ovary. Calya-tube ovoid or 
globose; limb 0. Corolla rotate or shortly funnel-shaped, lobes 4, rarely 3, 
valvate. Stamens 4, rarely 3, in the corolla-tube; filaments short; anthers 
didymous. Ovary 2-celled ; style short, arms 2 with capitate stigmas; ovules | 
erect in each cell, attached to the middle of the septum. Fruit small, didy- 
mous, dry or nearly so, smooth granulate or tubereled, glabrous pubescent or 
hispid with hooked hairs. Seed adhering to the pericarp, plano-convex, grooved 
ventrally, testa membranous; cotyledons broad thin, radicle elongate inferior.— 
DisrRrB. About 150 species, chiefly temperate. 
* Fruit covered with hooked hairs or bristles (rarely glabrous in 1. rotundi- 
folium). See also 17. G. setaceum. 
t Leaves 3-nerved from the base. 
l. G. rotundifolium, Linn.; DC. Prodr. iv. 599; diffase, leaves 
sessile or subsessile 4 in a whorl ovate or elliptic acute mucronate or obtuse 
-nerved from the base, cymes exceeding the leaves, branches divaricate. 
Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 1198; Boiss. Fl. Orient. iii. 49. G. latifolium, Ham. 
in Don Prodr, 133. G. Hamiltoni, Spreng. ; DC. Prodr. iv. 600. G, elegans, 
Wall. in Roxb. Fl. Ind., ed. Carey & Wall. i. 382; Cat. 6212; DC.l.c. G. 
punduanum, Wall, Cat. 7291, 
