382 TETRANDaiA MONOGYNiA. Galium, 



shining colour and has the peculiar roughness of some of the species 

 oi" Cordia.— N. W. 



2. G. Apar'me. 

 " Leaven in eights, lanceolate ; keels scabrous, with prickles point- 

 ing backwards. Joints villous. Fruit hispid. Linn. Sf. I L ed. H i,ld. 



i. p. 597. 



In the Botanic Garden at Calcutta it blossomed freely in March, 



I8I9. ■ 



The description of this well-known species, which IMiller and 



Lamarck have given, agrees well with the Nepal« plant. It mea- 

 sured when in tiower about two feet in length, with abundance of 

 weak opposite or alternate branches, by which it supported it>*elf on 

 the nearest plants. The stem-leaves in whorls of six^ or seven, from an 

 inch to two long, about two lines broad at their middle, and from 

 thence much tapering. The upper ones smaller, generally in sixes 

 or fives, but all equalling their interstices, upper surface scabrous, 

 the marj^ins and keel as well as the sharp angles of the stem and 

 blanches beset with pellucid recurved prickles — Peduncles awWary^ 

 mostly opposite and three-flowered. — Culf/x imperceptible. — Co- 

 rolla exceedingly small, of a yellowish tint. — Stijles two. — Fruit 

 thickly beset with hooked bristles.— N. W. 



.^. G. elegans. Wall. 



Leaves in fours, ovate or round-ovate, obtuse, three.nerved, soft, 

 hairy with villous nerves ; stents diffuse, hairy; panicles trichotomous; 

 seeds beset with hooked bristles. 



A native of Nepala, from whence I received specimens in 1818 

 from Mr. Gaidner. 



Root slender, creeping, red, with verticilled hbres.Siems weak, 

 elongated, four-cornered, two or more feet kaig, very villous while 

 joung, afterwards smoother, having only some roughish slightly re- 

 curved hair along the corners ; with a few alterna'e branches.—- 

 Leaves about half an inch, sometimes an inch long, sessile, entire, 

 ^mostly shorter than their interstices, slightly tapering towards the 

 base, dotted and hairy above, s^uoother below ; the recurved mar- 



