: 908 LXXV. RUBIACEX. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Galium. 
14. G. spurium, ZLin.; DC. Prodr. iv. 608 ; scaberulous, leaves subses- 
sile 4-6 in a whorl elliptic-lanceolate or oblanceolate obtuse or acute penninerved, 
cymes slender elongate terminal and axillary, fruit glabrous smooth. Boise, Fi. 
Orient. iii. 69. 
Kasumir, Falconer, Thomson. 
Annual, glabrous; stems 2-3 ft., flaccid, rambling. Leaves 1-13 in., usually ob- 
tuse, rather thin, midrib not strong beneath, and margins minutely seabrid. Cymes 
much longer than the leaves, with slender distant divaricate branches. Corolla minute, 
white; segments ovate, obtuse, Fruit j; in. diam., black. 
15. G. verum, Linn.; DC. Prodr. iv. 603; erect, smooth, stem pubescent 
upwards, leaves sessile 8-10 in a whorl linear cuspidate glabrous margins revo- 
lute, nerves obscure, cymes numerous short many-flowered, fruit glabrous 
granular. Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 1187 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient. iii. 62. 
Western HIMALAYA; Kashmir, alt. 5-10,000 ft., Falconer, Se, ` Lahul, Hay, 
Jaeschke.— DisrRUs. Europe, N. Africa, N. and W. Asia. 
Perennial; stems erect or rambling, 1-3 ft., terete. Leaves usually deflexed, very 
narrow, 3-1 by Ach in., rigid. Cymes very numerous, pedicels short, straight in fruit. 
Corolla bright yellow; segments ovate, acute. Fruit de in., often pubescent in 
Europe. 
16. G. acutum, Ldgew. in Trans. Linn. Soc, xx. 61; smooth, glabrous, 
stems interlaced, leaves sessile 6 in a whorl very small elliptic-lanceolate aristate 
margins recurved, nerves obsolete, peduncles axillary short 1-flowered, fruit 
glabrous granulate. G. floribundum, Jacq. Journ. G. himalayense, Klotzsch in 
Pr. Wald. Reise Bot. 88, t. 73. 
TEMPERATE Himaraya; Runen, alt. 5000 ft., Edgeworth; Garwhal, alt. 10,000 
ft., Falconer, &c. ; Sikkim, alt. 9—13,000 ft., J. D. H., €. B. Clarke. 
Perennial, black when dry; suberect and stiff, or flaccid and decumbent; stems 
6-12 in, very leafy. Leaves close-set, often recurved, 4-} in., midrib strong beneath. 
Peduncle very stout when flowering, much shorter than the leaves, elongate and 
straight in fruit. Corolla very minute; segments lanceolate. acuminate. Fruit yy in. 
diam,—1 have noted the flowers as purplish in some Sikkim specimens, yellowish- 
white in others. i 
17. G. tenuissimum, Bieb. Fl. Taur. Cauce. i. 104; erect, scabrid, 
glabrous, excessively slender, widely divaricately branched, leaves 6 in a whorl 
narrowly linear scabrid aristate, nerves obsolete, cymes very large lax very slen- 
der few-flowered, fruit minute smooth glabrous. DC. Prodr. iv. 607 ; Boiss. 
Fl. Orient. iii. 73. 
Western Himaraya; Kashmir, alt. 5000-6500 ft., Clarke. PuwzaB; at Rawul 
Pindee, Aitchison.—Distrin. W. Asia, from Syria and the Caucasus to Greece. 
Annual. Stem 6-12 in., usually retrorsely scabrid, subterete, di-tri-chotomously 
divided from the base, so that the whole plant forms a triangle with the apex at the 
root, leafy at the forks only. Leaves 3-2 by 4 in., rather broader beyond the midd!e, 
ciliate with rigid hairs, margins revolute. Cymes many times longer than the leaves, 
and very long pedicels capillary. Corolla minute, white or yellowish; segments cus- 
pidate. Fruit 3; in. diam., mericarps often free.— Too closely allied to G, divaricatum, 
Lam., which extends from Europe to Syria. 
18. G. setaceum, Lamk.; DC. Prodr. iv. 609; erect, short, minutely 
scabrid or glabrous, branches filiform erect or divaricate, leaves 4-8 in a whorl 
filiform acute margins recurved lower short elongate-spathulate not aristate 
upper setaceous, cymes terminal and lateral capillary few-flowered, fruit most 
minute glabrous or with a few hooked hairs. Botss, Fl. Orient. iii. 77. Q. 
capillare, Cav, Ze. t. 191, f. 1. 
