Galiwm.| RUBIACEE (Sond.) 37 
Var. 8. setabrum; stem, branches and leaves scabrous-hairy ; fruit a little downy. 
G. Namaquense, E. Z.! 2322. Drege, 7682, 7683. 
Hak. Sandy spots, and on mts. throughout the colony. Var. 3. high mts, near 
Heerelogement, Clanw., #. § Z., Drege. Sept—Dec. (Herb. Thunb., Sd., D.) 
Polymorphous ; var. a. resembling @, sawatile, var. B. G. uliginoswm. Stems from 
4-2 feet high, often numerous from the perennial roots ; sometimes terete at the 
very base, but usually 4-sided as well as the mostly simple branches. Leaves 4-6 
lines long, about 4 line broad, spreading or reflexed. The axillary inflorescence 
longer than the leaves, Flowers white. Fruit very small. 
4. G. Wittbergense (Sond.); stem erect; branches spreading, downy; 
leaves 6-8 in a whorl, erect-spreading, linear, mucronate, glabrous, 
ciliate-scabrous on the revolute margins ; peduncles axillary, solitary, 
cymose-tripartite; cyme equalling the leaves; fruit hispid, with hooked 
hairs. 
Has. Rocky, wet places in the Wittbergen, 6-7o00 ft. Jan. Drege. (Herb. Sd.) 
Very like G. Capense; differing by cymose peduncle and hispid fruit. Lower 
branches } foot long. Leaves 5-6 lines long, with a longish mucro, peduncle at the 
apex 3-parted, bracteated, the pedicels bifid. Fruit very small, didymous. 
5. G. Garipense (Sond.); stem climbing, much-branched, 4-sided, 
as well as the branches quite glabrous, smooth or a little scabrous from 
scattered, reversed, minute prickles; leaves 4-6 in a whorl, much 
spreading or reflexed, linear, mucronate, glabrous; peduncles axillary, 
solitary, cymose-tripartite, 2-3 times longer than the leaves; fruit hispid 
with hooked hairs. 
Has. On the Garip near Buffelvallei, 4000 ft. Dec. Drege; Buffaloeriver, Gerr. 
§ M‘K. (Herb. D., Sd.) 
Habit of G. wliginosum ; prickles on the stem and branches very minute, sometimes 
wanting. Leaves shorter than the internodes, 3-4 lines long, 4 line broad. Peduncles 
and divaricate pedicels with 1 or 2 leafy bracts. Fruit as in the preceding, from 
which this species is distinguished by the more diffuse habit, glabrous, often prickly 
stem, smaller spreading or reflexed smooth leaves, and longer cymes, 
6. G. horridum (Thunb.! Fl. Cap. p. 152); stem erect, 4—6-sided, 
prickly along the angles ; leaves 8 or more in a whorl, elongated-linear, 
subtriquetous, reflexed, serrated from reversed prickles on the margius 
and keel ; panicle axillary, elongate, trichotomous ; fruit glabrous. 
Has. Cape, Massonin herb. Thunb.; Port Natal, Gerr. § M‘K.1339; Magalisberg, 
Dec. Zeyh. 771. (Herb. Thunb., Sd., D.) 
Like G. Aparine, but is a stronger perennial herb, armed by larger prickles, and 
easily known by the long 3-angled leaves. Stem at the base nearly as thick as a 
’s quill. Leaves 2-4 inches long, 1-1} line broad, channelled above, sharply 
keeled beneath. Panicle in our specimens 2~4 inches long ; the flower bearing pedicels 
1-2 lines long. Flowers glabrous. Ripe fruit didymous, about 14 line in diameter. 
7. G. mucroniferum (Sond.); stem erect or ascending, 4-sided, 
glabrous, prickled on the angles ; leaves 6 in a whorl, lanceolate, with a 
longish muero, prickly along the margins, shining ; peduncles axillary, 
solitary, 2-flowered; pedicels as long as the peduncle, and fruit glabrous, 
G. mucronatum, E. Mey. non Thunb. Drege, 7677, 7684, 7686, 7689. 
Has. Wet rocky places, near Gnadenthal, Dutoitskloof, Drege; in Caffraria, E. Z. 
Oct._Jan. (Herb. D., Sd.) f 
Stems 4~1} foot, minutely prickled. Internodes as long or longer than the leaves, 
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