Galium. tetrandria MOJfOGYNii, 3cj 



8tyle length of the corol ; stigma of two round \oh&?,. — Terkarp 

 Mhen ripe a dry berry of a lanceolate sliape, 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 bo- 

 tanist Gaertner. 



GALIUM. 



Corolla of one petal, fiat, superior. Seeds two, roundish. 



1- G, asperi folium. Wall. 



Leaves in sixes, cuneate-oblong, retuse with a subulate point, 

 very spreading, short-petioled, scabrous above, with hispid rib and 

 margins; stem villous, four-sided, branchy, flaccid ; ^a;«t7es slender ; 

 corolla awned ; ovarium smooth. 



A native of Nepala from whence this and the following species 

 were introduced into the Botanic Garden at Calcutta in 1818, by 

 the Hon. Mr. Gardner. 



Stem four-sided, strong, clad with copious soft recurved hair ; 

 branches numerous, weak and leaning ; joints slightly swelled. — 

 Leaves mostly six in each whorl ; those below remote, oblong-cune- 

 ate, an inch and 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. Fanicles lengthened, with ternate or opposite, copious, small 

 floral leaves. Flozcers foscicled. Corolla large, expanding ; each 

 lanceolate segment ending in a capillary point. Style half-cloven. 

 Stigma capitate. Ovarium perfectly smooth. 



Obs. This species has much 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 se- 

 parates partly from their upper surface when dry, assumes a greyish 



