Galium.] LXXV. RUBIACE&. (J. D. Hooker.) 209 
Tue Ponsan, at Hussar, Aitchison.—Disrrip, Beluchistan, Affghanistan, Asia 
Minor, and Greece. 
Annual; stem erect, 6-8 in., terete. Leaves 3-1 by A in., the lower shorter and 
broader, margins revolute, hardly scabrid. Cymes equalling and exceeding the leaves ; 
branches and pedicels capillary. Corolla most minute, glabrous, yellow. Fruit ay in. 
diam., glabrous or with a few short hooked hairs.—Described from Beluch and Affghan 
specimens, the Punjab ones being very imperfect. 
19. G. ceratophylloides, Hook. f.; stems erect subsimple short very 
slender smooth and glabrous, leaves in close-set whorls of 6 horizontal and re- 
curved very slender soft flat aristate, peduncles axillary shorter than the leaves 
3-flowered, ovary glabrous. 
Kasumir, at Poosiana, alt. 8500 ft., C. B. Clarke. 
Perennial? Stems 4-6 in., 4-angled, weak, filiform, perfectly smooth. Leaves 
4 in., rather flaccid, longer than the internodes, finely acuminate and aristate, minutely 
seabrid towards the apex, margins hardly recurved, midrib not prominent beneath. 
Peduncles erect, with 2 subulate bracts at the tip. Corolla yellowish; segments lan- 
ceolate, long-acuminate. Fruit not seen. 
tt Leaves 3-nerved from the base. 
20. G. vernum, Scop.; DC. Prodr. iv. 605; slightly scabrid or pubes- 
cent, decumbent, weak, leaves shortly petioled 4 in a whorl elliptic tip 
rounded 3-nerved from the base, peduncles axillary shorter than the leaves few- 
flowered, fruit smooth glabrous. Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 1185; Boiss. Fi. 
Orient. iii. 80. 
Western Himataya; Chumba, alt. 9000 ft., C. B. Clarke.— Distrig. Central and 
S. Europe, Siberia, 
Perennial. Stem 6-10 in., sparingly branched, hairs reflexed. Leaves 1-3 by 4-1 
in., membranous, nerves slender. Peduncle horizontal, ebracteate, pedicels very short. 
Corolla yellow, green ` segments lanceolate.—The specimens are very scanty, and not 
in fruit; in the European plant the flowers are polygamous, the lateral d', the termi- 
nal hermaphrodite, and the peduncle is recurved in fruit. 
91. ASPERULA, Linn. 
Characters and distribution of Galium, but the corolla funnel-shaped. 
1. A. cynanchica, Linn.; DC. Prodr. iv. 582; glabrous, stems very 
numerous ascending or erect, leaves small linear-oblong obtuse lower in whorls 
of 4 upper opposite, flowers glabrous in terminal fascicles, bracts linear acute, fruit 
granulate. Wight Ill. t. 128 bis; Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 1181; Boiss. Fl. Orient. 
iii. 40. 
Western Hraraya; Kashmir, alt. 8000 ft., Falconer, O. B. Clarke; Kistwar, 
alt. 7-9000 ft., Thomson; Garwhal, at Niti, alt. 11,500 ft., Strach. d Winterb.—Dts- 
TRIB. Europe, Asia Minor. 
Glabrous, rarely sparsely pubescent, 4-10 in. high: stock woody; stems slender 
terete, branches 4-angled. Leaves scattered, 1-2 by ;,-1 in., mostly opposite, often 
recurved, acute or obtuse, flat, thick, nerveless. Flowers at the naked tips of the 
slender branehes in corymbiform fascicles or heads, subtended by 2 small linear-oblong 
bracts. Corolla pink or white, about de in. long; segments 4, triangular, shorter than 
the tube. Fruit } in. diam. 
2. A. brachyantha, Boiss.; Fl. Orient. iii. 45; Var. with longer 
corolla; glabrous or puberulous, stems very numerous erect virgate, leaves oppo- 
site shortly linear oblong obtuse, flowers tomentose in terminal heads or fascicles, 
bracts very short oblong obtuse, corolla funnel-shaped, fruit globose smooth. 
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