Tee e A EE E ET 
LEE WEE ote HEEN 
REENEN AE a Ae Eet ANE LE ge ECH eee 
ia NIENTE eel 
— 
Bpermacoce.] LXI. RUBIACEA. 443 
sheaths short, with about 9 bristles on each side dilated at de base, E? 
sometimes united into a single lanceolate point. Flower-heads terminal and 
lateral, forming a short forked cyme at t the ends of the branches. Calyx- 
les 2 only, short, linear. Corolla 23 or nearly 3 lines long, the lobes 
spreading, as long as the tube, with a longitudinal line of hairs inside each. 
Stamens inserted at the orifice of the tube, and rather longer than the lobes. 
zën m „hard, the carpels separating, the dissepiment remaining attached 
e 
N. Australia. Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown. 
Tur II. SrELLATA.— Calyx wholly adnate vitho any visible border 
(in the Australian genera). Corolla-lobes valvate. Ovary 2-celled, with 1 
ovule in each cell. Fruit small, eebe rarely undershrubs. 
Zeie imis to the leaves, and conn nnected with them by a short sheath or 
ring, forming whorls of 4 or more, very rarely (only in two Australian species) 
reduced to the 2 true leaves. 
28. ASPERULA, Linn. 
"ei completely combined with the ele AE without any visible border. 
th rolla funnel-shaped, with a distinct tube and 4 sprea eading lobes, valvate in 
ebud. Anthers exserted. Style 2-lobed. Ovary 2-celled, with 1 ascend- 
ing or laterally Sahel ovule in each cell. Fruit small, y, 2-lobed (when 
Sech GC Sen, —Herbs with rate quadrangular stems. Leaves in 
Bh o 8, hich 2 are real leaves and the remainder stipules, 
Sm precisely e mih in shape Let size, in one species reduced to the 2 
clust s small, solitary, Or in axilla 
i ers, p ocensionally more or less unisexual, the fe 
Tolla-tube than the males, but always more prominent than in Galium. 
we EE extends over the cooler temperate and subtropical Me of the Old m. 
It digg Mu in America or southern Africa. Th an spec are all e 
m Galium only in the oe of the corolla. 
tae SE = 1. 4. pev 
Oei all or nearly all in fours . ` 9. A. subsimpler 
libn ostly in sixes, a few w horis sometimes of four onl 
s narrow-linear, with dió points. P usually sca been 8. 4.5 a. 
ves linear, obtuse or acute minutely pabese t * A. c zd 
es 
Leaves obovate, oblong o r oblong-linear, o 
leaves mostly in eights, abbot 1 line long. ‘Stems short, titm. 
r A. geminifolia, F. Muell. Fragm. v. 141. Stems long, slender, 
