36 RUBIACEH (Sond.) [Galium. 
Branched herbs. Leaves forming whorls along with the leaf-like stipules. In- 
florescence variable. Name from ‘yada, milk; some species are used for curdling 
milks. 
1, Annual (a weed of cultivation) ... ... ... ... ... ... (10) Aparine, 
2, Perennials. 
Fruit glabrous, granulated 
Pedicels very long, villous ... ... ... .. ... «. (13) tomentosum. 
Pedicels short. 
quite glabrous... (11) glabrum. 
branches and peduncles densely hairy ...... (12) asperum. 
Fruit smooth, glabrous or hairy, hairs not hooked. 
Stem or branches smooth or hispid, not prickly. 
Flowers solitary, subsessile ... 2... 1... 0... 
Flowers peduncled. 
Stem and lanceolate lvs. villous; fruit glabrous (2) monticolum. 
Stem, lin-lanceolate leaves and fr. glabrous (or 
GOWDY) nn, one es nee tee nee tee’ eee GB) Capen. 
Stem, oblong lvs., pedicels and fruit densely hairy (9) 
Stem, lanc. lvs. and fr. hairy; pedicels glabrous (8) Dregeanum. 
Stem or branches scabrous or serrated by reflex prickles. : 
Leaves linear, subtriquetrous ; flowers panicled (6) horridum. 
Leaves lanceolate ; peduncles solitary, 2-flowered (7) mucronifernm. 
Fruit hispid, with hooked hairs or bristles. 
Leaves linear : 
(1) Amatymbicum, 
Stem eréet; downy = 2 tees = (4) Wittbergense. 
Stem climbing, weak, glabrous ... ... --. +. (5) Garipense. 
Leaves roundish-ovate ... 0. ss. ++ ++ (14) rotundifolium. 
1. G. Amatymbicum (E. & Z.! n. 2328); whole plant hispid; stems 
cxspitose, diffuse, filiform, 4-sided, much branched ; leaves 6 ina whorl, 
lanceolate, acute; peduncles axillary, solitary, very short; fruit hispid. 
Has. Acacia fields near the Key R., Tambukiland, #. 4 Z. Dec. (Hb. D., Sd.) 
A small prostrate herb, with the habit of G. helveticum. Leaves 2-3 lines long, 
acute at both ends, ciliate-hairy. Peduncle 3 line long, in fruit recurved. Flowers 
white. Fr. densely hispid, 4 line in diameter. 
2. G. monticolum (Sond.); stem erect, branched, 4-sided, villous ; 
leaves 6-8 in a whorl, linear-lanceolate, mucronate, nearly terete by the 
revolute margins, villous on both sides; peduncles axillary and terminal, 
1- or few- flowered ; corollas and fruit glabrous. 
Has. Mountains near Capetown, Ecklon. (Herb. Sd.) 
Habit of G. maritimum, L., and agreeing in the pubescence and leaves, but differing 
by glabrous pedicels, fl., and fr. ; branches 2 inches long, with very short lateral 
branchlets, bearing the flowers. Leaves 3~4 lines long, reflexed, with incurved tips. 
Fl. very small, pedicels 1 line long. 
3. G. Capense (Thunb.! Prod. p. 30); stem ascending or erect, 
downy or subscabrous, branched ; leaves 6-8 in a whorl, linear-lanceo- 
late or linear, mucronate, quite glabrous, rarely ciliolate on the revolute 
margins ; peduncles lateral, 1-3-flowered ; floriferous branches panicled ; 
fruit glabrous, smooth, or a little downy. G. expansum, E. Z., 2326, 
ex pte., H, Mey. in herb. Dreg. 
Vaz. 8. minus; stems ascending, short, weak. G. mucronatum, Thunb./ I. ¢. 
Zeyh. 773, ex pte. ; 
Vas. y. expansum; stem glabrous, downy or subscabrous ; panicle larger ; fruit 
glabrous or a little downy. _G. expansum, Thunb,! ke ok Za Prag mucronatum, 
E. Z. 2327. Drege, 7675, 7678, 7680, 7681, 7685. Zeyh. 1773, ex pte. 
