444 LXI. RUBIACER. [ Asperula. 
weak and diffuse, quite glabrous. Leaves 2 or very rarely 3 to each gie 
narrow-linear, acute, above 1 in. long in luxuriant specimens, but usually 
shorter. Peduucles terminal, elongated, solitary or 3 together, each with 
about 5 to 7 flowers, almost sessile, in a small eme, Corolla about $ line 
long, the lobes nearly as long as the tube. Fruit small, very rugose, almost 
fleshy. 
Queensland. Burdekin and Brisbane rivers, F. Mueller ; Cannon’s River, Bowman. 
2. A. subsimplex, Hook. f. in Hook. Lond. Journ. vi. 463, and Fl. 
 Tasm.i. 168. Small, slender, diffuse and glabrous. Leaves in all our ec? 
mens constantly four in each whorl, linear, acute or scarcely obtuse, ie 
exceeding i in., the upper ones very short and rather broader. Wee we 
shortly pedicellate, solitary in the upper axils or about 3 together at the sere 
of the branches. Corolla about $ line long, the lobes nearly as long as 
tube. Young fruit rugose, but not seen ripe. i 
Tasmania. Circular Head, Formosa, Lake St. Clair, etc., Lawrence, Gunn. 
3. A. scoparia, Hook. f. in Hook. Lond. Journ. vi. 463, "n 
i. 169. £. 40A. Stems short and densely tufted, erect or decumbent, 
? iq. in 
shorter, the tube scarcely so long as the lobes.— Rubia syrticola, Miq 
Ned. Kruidk. Arch. iv. 111. 
Queensland. On the Maranoa, Mitchell. ^ 
N. S. Wales. New England. C. Stuart; near Appin, Backhouse. 
Victoria. Desert of the Murray, F. Mueller. CS 
Tasmania. Dry gravelly fields at Laurenny, J. D. Hoo er. 
S. Australia. Gawler town, Lofty Ranges, Mount Gambier, F. Mueller. 
S m. 
4. A. conferta, Hook. f. in Hook. Lond. Journ. vi. 464, geg 
i. 169. Diffuse, decumbent or nearly erect, sometimes forming i sadi 
strate tufts of a few in., sometimes 6 ft. to 1 ft. long, rigid or "Porc al-* 
glabrous or slightly scabrous-pubescent. Leaves in whorls of 6, v 
ria 
most obtuse or shortly pointed, but without the fine point of 7. 
r 
scoparie. 
the last 
der tube, 
d d i ru 
much shorter with a short broad tube in the females. Fruit smooth or rug 
by dryiug. i 
Queensland. Peak Downs, F. Mueller; near Warwick, Beckler 
N. S. Wales. Open plains near Bathurst, 4. Cunningham ; 
Darling river, Dallachy. : he colony. 
ria. Dry places in the western and north-western parts of the coloay, 
"Paramatta, Woolls ; 
F. Mueller 
icto: 
and others, x 
i -linear, obtuse. 
Var. elongata. Stems long and slender. Leaves } to } in. long, — C. Stuart ; 
Flowers very small.—Mackenzie and Suttor rivers, E. Mueller ; New England, 
Pythe's ranges, Wan; Forest Creek, F, Mueller. 
