206 LXXV. RUBIACEE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Galium. 
nerved, nerves very slender, peduncles axillary and terminal l-fowered. (i. 
A parine, var. pauciflorum, Maxim. in Bull. Imp. Acad., Mel. Biol. ix. 269. 
Western TiBkT; Nubra, Pangim and Karakoram mts., alt. 12-14,000 ft., Thomson, 
C. B. Clarke, Henderson.—DisrRis. N. China. 
Annual, very much more slender than G. Aparine, and almost quite smooth. 
Stems filiform or capillary. Leaves 3-2 in., membranous, midrib slender, margins 
minutely seabrid. Pedunele A A in., rarely 2-flowered. Flowers minute, white. Fruit 
very small, covered with hooked hairs. 
6. G. vestitum, Don Prodr. 138; suberect, scaberulously pubescent all 
over, leaves sessile 4—5 in a whorl oblong obtuse rigid, margins recurved, nerves 
obsolete, cymes small terminal and axillary few-flowered. 
Western and Cenrrat HiMALAYA, alt. 6-10,000 ft.; Garwhal, Falconer, &c.; 
Nipal, Wallich. 
Perennial; stems stout for the size of the plant, ascending. Leaves 1-$ in, 
equally pubescent on both surfaces. Cymes short, but longer than the leaves, 
branches short, divaricate. Flowers minute. Fruit very small, clothed with hooked 
hairs. 
7. G. hirtiflorum, Requien in DC. Prodr. iv. 600; suberect or decum- 
bent, glabrate or laxly clothed with long weak hairs, leaves sessile 4-nate linear 
obtuse or subacute, margins recurved, nerves obscure, cymes axillary and ter- 
minal longer than the leaves paniculate. G. ciliatum, Don Prodr. 133. G. 
Aparine, Wall. Cat. 6218, in part. 
TEMPERATE HIMALAYA ; Garwhal, Falconer ; Nipal, Wallich ; Sikkim, alt. 610,000 
ft, A. D. H. 
Stems weak, 1-2 ft., branched, shining, never scabrid, the spreading or reversed 
hairs being weak and long. or absent. Leaves $-1 by -è in., rather rigid, covered all 
over, or on the stout midrib beneath and margins only, with long hairs. Cymes hori- 
zontal, 1-2 in. long, slender, and with few slender divaricate distant pairs of branches. 
Flowers on slender pedicels, minute. Corol/a-segments ovate, obtuse, ciliate. Fruit 
very small, 3; in. diam., clothed with hooked bristles. 
8. G. confertum, Hoyle mss.; clothed with soft spreading hairs, stems 
weak interlaced, leaves sessile 4-5 in a whorl broadly elliptic or obovate obtuse, 
margins flat, nerves obsolete, peduncles axillary and terminal very short 1- 
flowered, 
Western Himaraya; Kunawur, alt. 7-8000 ft., Royle, Thomson. 
Poot woody, giving off innumerable interlaced slender stems, 6-8 in. long. Leaves 
4-3 by 4-2 in., floral minute. Peduncles ve in. when flowering. Corolla-segments 
ovate-lanceolate, acuminate. Ovary hispid. Fruit not seen. 
9. G. paradoxum, Maxim. in Bull. Acad. Petersb., Mel. Biol. Dec. xvi. 
263 ; procumbent, very slender, quite smooth and almost glabrous, leaves petioled 
opposite and stipulate rarely 4 in a whorl orbicular or orbicular-ovate obtuse 
apiculate penni-nerved, flowers axillary and solitary and in very small terminal 
few-flowered cymes, G. stellarizfolium, Franch. A Savat. Enum. Pl. Jap. i. 
213; ii. 992. , 
Sixxiw. HIMALAYA; by water courses at Choongtam, alt. 8-9000 ft., J. D. H.— 
Distris. Manchuria, Japan. 
Annual? Stems flexuous, a span long, almost filiform, quite smooth, succulent. 
Zvaves in distant pairs, 4-3 in. long and as broad or rather less, perfectly smooth, 
very rarely with a few scattered appressed hairs; base rounded or narrowed into 
the distinct petiole ZA in. long; nerves and midrib faint; stipules’ minute, inter- 
petiolar, subulate, Flowers minute, if solitary and axillary on a pedicel Lo when 
terminal 3-nate, or several on a very short branched peduncle,  Corolla-segments ` 
