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Style length of the corol ; stigma of two round lobes.— Pericazp 
when ripe a dry berry of a lanceolate shape, crowned with the re- 
maining calyx, two-celled with a single linear oblong seed in each, 
as detailed and figured by that very eminent and most accurate ha- 
tanist Geertuer. 
GALIUM. 
Corolla of one petal, flat, superior. Seeds two, roundish. 
1. G. asperifolium. Wall. - a 
Leaves iù sixes, cuneate-oblong, retuse with a subulate poinf,. 
very spreading, short-petioled, scabrous above, with hispid rib and 
margins ; stem villous, four-sided, branchy, flaccid ; panicles slender 5. 
corolla awned ; ocarium smooth. 
A native of Nepala from whence this and the following species. 
were introduced into the Botanic Garden at Calcutia in 1818, by 
the Hon. Mr. Gardner. 
Stem four-sided, strong, clad with copious soft recurved hair 3 
branches numerous, weak and leaning ; joints slightly swelled.— 
Leaves mostly six in each whorl; those below remote, oblong-cune- - 
aie, an inch aud more long, those above smaller and closer together, 
almost reflexed, cuneate; all are tapering at the base into a very short 
petiol, retuse or rounded at the end and invariably terminated by a 
short triangular withering greyish point ; above dark-green, shining, 
scabrous, with short stiff hair, below pale and soft, except along the 
recurved, entire margins, and elevated rib, which are beset with stiff 
hair: Panicles lengthened, with ternate or opposite, copious, small 
floral leaves. Flowers fascicled. Corolla large, expanding ; each 
lanceolate segment ending in a capillary point. Style half-cloven, . 
Stigma capitate. Ovarium perfectly smooth. em 
Obs, This species has mich of the habit of G. Mollugo. The 
Stem and branches are very soft, while the leaves possess a Consi» 
derable harshness on account of their stiff hair ; the epidermis ee 
Parates partly from their upper surface when dry, assumes a greyish 
