B art i Mx ci ds TT. 
Galium.] LXXV. RUBIACEE. (J. D. Hooker.) 207 
ovate, obtuse, glabrous. Style 2-fid at the top. Ovary densely clothed with hooked 
hairs. Fruit not seen.—A very curious Galium; the Sikkim specimens are smaller 
than the Manchurian, and resemble a Nertera. 
10. G. exile, Hook. f.; minute, procumbent, stems capillary interlaced 
flexuous, leaves minute petioled opposite elliptic acute penninerved, peduncles 
solitary axillary and terminal 1-flowered. 
Smxxm Himataya, by rivulets in the interior, alt. 12-14,000 ft. 
A most delicate annual with soft weak stems a few inches long, procumbent 
amongst moss and not thicker than horse-hair. Leaves in distant pairs, 5-4 in. long, ` 
narrowed into a short petiole, midrib and margins quite smooth ; stipules interpetiolar, 
low, broad, most minute. Fruiting peduncles longer than the leaves. Corolla not 
seen. Ovary pubescent, about se in. diam. Fruit j; in. diam., didymous, laterally 
much compressed, chestnut brown, rather shining, covered with hooked hairs. 
** Fruit without hooked hairs (except 18. setaceum), tomentose pubescent 
scabrid tubercled granular or smooth. (See also 1. rotundifolium.) 
+ Leaves penni-nerved, or nerves obsolete (never 3-nerved from the base). 
1l. G. serpylloides, Hoyle mss.; softly pubescent, suberect, stem 
short much branched, leaves close-set sessile 4 in a whorl ovate oblong or elliptic 
obtuse margins recurved, nerves obscure, peduncles axillary and terminal 3- 
flowered, fruit densely clothed with long woolly straight (not hooked) hairs. 
Western Himaraya; Kunawur and Lahul, Royle, Thomson, Jaeschke. 
Root woody, sending up innumerable suberect rather stout stems 2—4 in. high. 
Leaves 1-3 by j5-lin., midrib beneath strong. Peduncles stout, equalling or exceed- 
the leaves; pedicels short, stout. Flowers minute.  Calya-segments ovate, acute. 
Fruit, including the hairs à in. broad. 
12. G. Mollugo, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. iv. 596; glabrous or slightly scabrid 
hispid or pubescent, stems long flaccid much branched, leaves sessile or petioled 
6-8 in a whorl linear or narrowly linear-obovate acute or cuspidate, nerves ob- 
scure, cymes axillary and terminal panicled many-flowered, fruit glabrous granu- 
late. Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 1187 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient. ii. 53. G. asperifolium, 
Wall. in Roxb. Fl. Ind., ed. Carey & Wall. i. 881; DC. l.c. 598; W. & A. 
Prodr. 442. G. parviflorum, Don Prodr. 133. G, A parine, Wall. Cat. 6213 in 
part. Q. lividum, Jacq. Journ. 1; 
Mountainous parts of India, alt. 3-10,000 ft. ; throughout the HrwArava, KuasiA 
Mrs., Birma, the higher Ghats of the WzsrERN PreNINsULA, and Mountains of Cey- 
LoN.—DuisTRrB, Europe, N. Africa, Temperate Asia, Ava. 
Perennial; very variable. Stems 2-3 ft., scandent and rambling. Leaves 3-1 by 
4-4 in. rather rigid, often polished above, margins usually recurved, midrib strong 
beneath. Cymes with short slender stiff divaricate branches, pedicels recurved in 
fruit. Corolla small, white, segments ovate. Fruit black, 4; in. diam. 
13. G. tricorne, With.; DC. Prodr. iv. 608; very scabrid, stems stout, 
leaves sessile 6-8 in a whorl linear or oblanceolate cuspidate, nerves obscure, 
peduncles stout axillary 1—3-flowered, fruit glabrous or scabrous granulate. 
Reich, Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 1198; Boiss. Fl. Orient. iii. 67. 
Western Hrmaraya; Kashmir, ascending to 13,000 ft.; and WESTERN TIBET, 
Thomson. Hills at Arrocx, Falconer. Wuzuristan, Stewart.—Disrris. Central and 
S. Europe, N. Africa, W. Asia. : 
A stout annual, 1-2 ft., retrorsely scabrid. Leaves 1-14 by l-l in., rigid, midrib 
strong beneath.  Peduncles longer or shorter than the leaves, stout and elongate, with 
decurved tips in fruit. Corolla white; segments ovate, acute. Fruit large, 4 in. 
diam. 
