38 RUBIACEZ (Sond.) [Galvwm. 
shining. Leaves 4-5 lines long, 1 line broad, with recurved prickles on margins and 
middle nerve. Pedune. and pedicels capillary, bracteated at the division. Flowers 
glabrous. Ripe fruit the size of a small peppercorn, shining; one of the mericarps 
often abortive. It varies with downy ovaries. 
§. G. Dregeanum (Sond.); stem erect, 4-sided, densely beset with 
spreading hairs, at length subscabrous; leaves 8 in a whorl, linear- 
lanceolate, mucronate, ciliate-hairy on both sides, with revolute margins; 
peduncles axillary, solitary, 2-flowered ; pedicels about as long as the 
peduncles, glabrous ; fruit hispidulous. 
Has. Dutoitskloof, Drege, 7688. (Herb. D., Sd.) 
Very similar to G. mucroniferum, but more robust, and well distinguished by the 
hirsute stem and hairy, more revolute, leaves. Peduncles as long as the leaves or 
longer. Fruit didymous. 
9. G. subvillosum (Sond.) ; stem ascending, 4-sided, densely beset 
with short, spreading hairs, subscabrous when old; leaves 6 in a whorl, 
oblong, obtuse, mucronate, ciliate-hairy on both sides, with recurved 
margins ; peduncles axillary, solitary, 3-flowered ; pedicels as long as 
the peduncle or shorter, hairy, as well as the young fruit. 
Has. Dutoitskloof, 1-2000 ft. Oct.Jan. Drege, 7687. (Herb. Sd.) 
Of this I have only seen a single specimen. It resembles exactly @. villosum, 
Lam. Leaves 3 lines long, 1 line broad, with short recurved mucro, peduncles equal- 
ling the leaves, sometimes longer, with a leafy bract at top; pedicels 2-6 lines long, 
spreading, hairy. Ripe fruit unknown. 
10, G. Aparine (L. Spec. p. 157) ; annual; stems weak, 4-sided, sca- 
brous from reversed prickles ; leaves 6-8 in a whorl, linear-lanceolate, 
apiculate, r-nerved, scabrous from reversed prickles along the margins 
and keel; peduncles axillary, simple and bifid, sometimes panicled, 
scabrous ; fruit didymously globose, very hispid from hooked bristles. 
Engl. bot. 816. G. horridum, E. Z.! 2329, non Thunb. Drege, 7670, 
7673. “eyh. 2722, 2723, 2724. 
Has. Shady places near Capetown, and throughout the Colony. Sept.—Oct. 
(Herb. Sd., D.) 
“Common cleavers” or “ goose-grass.” Stem climbing, villous or scabrous at the 
nodes, Leaves sometimes larger, obovate-lanceolate. Fl. white or greenish. The 
small specimens from Hassaquaskloof, Zeyh. 2722, agree perfectly with G. tenerum, 
Schleich. from Switzerland. (Probably introduced from Europe. | 
11. G. glabrum (Thunb.! FI. Cap. p. 152); stem erect, flexuous, te- 
tragonal, glabrous, prickly along the angles; leaves 6 in a whorl, obo- 
vate-oblong, shortly-pointed, glabrous, serrated by reversed prickles 
along the margin ; peduncles capillary, glabrous, terminal and lateral, 
panicled. #.Z./ 2325. G. uncinatum, Licht. Bart.et Wendl. Beyt.2, p.12. 
Has. In woods, Duyvelsbosch and Voormannsbosch, near Puspas valley, Swell., 
E. § Z.; Buffeljagdrivier, Zeyh. 2725. Oct. (Herb. Thunb., Sd.) 
Stem 2 ft. and more, alternately branched, resembling G. sylvaticum, L. Leaves 
8-12 lines long, 4 lines broad, minutely punctate, obtuse, with short mucro-like 
point. Peduncles longer than the leaves. Fl. small, white. Fr. 1 line long, densely 
granulated. 
_ 12. G. asperum (Thunb.! Fl. Cap. p. 152); stem erect, flexuous, 4- 
sided, as well as the branches and peduncles, densely clothed with white 
