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446 LXI. RUBIACER. [Galium. | 
in Hook. Kew Journ. viii. 146; Pl. Vict. t. 31. Stems elongated, slender, 
` glabrous or scabrous on the angles. Leaves all in pairs, narrow- inear, | 
mostly obtuse. Flowers very small, about 3 together, sessile within the last 
leaves or on a common peduncle in the upper axils. Fruits rather large, 
glabrous and smooth. 
N. S. Wales. Darling river, Victorian Expedition. 
Victoria. Murray aud Avoca river, F. Mueller. 
S.Australia, Wilhelmi. ; 
The plant closely resembles Asperula geminifolia, but is more rigidly divaricate, and the 
corolla is that of a Galium. 
Gaudichaudi, DC. Prod. iv. 607. A very variable plant, 
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usually hispid, more rarely glabrous except minute asperities. Stems usually 
N.S. Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown and others ; — 
ward to New England, C. Stuart ; Macleay and Clarence rivers, Beck/er ; open plains 
the interior, 4. Cunningham and others. Aer 
ictoria. Dry places in the western and north-western parts of the colony, F. Mue 
and others. " 
Tasmania. Dry bushy places, not uncommon, J. D. Hooker. 
S. Australia. "Murray river to St. Vincent’s Gulf, F. Mueller and others. " 
The species is closely allied to and may not be really distinct from the New Zealand 
umbrosum, Forst. X 
ar. glabrescens. Stems tufted, erect, glabrous or nearly so. Leaves broad.— New 
England, Becker. al 
Var. muriculatum. Fruit slightly tubercular, connecting the species with G. australe 
New n reini; Clarence river, Paramatta, Wilson’s Promontory, Cudnata, generally single 
specimens, 
bright yellow, a character which proves constant in species of the noriem 
hemisphere, Fruits glabrous and smooth. 
Tasmania. Abundant in dry pastures, J. D. Hooker. 
4. G. australe, DC. Prod. iv. 608. Slender and diffuse e? aer? 
Perennial, the stems often elongated and much intricate, more or less 
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or hispid, with short rigid clinging hairs. Leaves in whorls of 4 from 
ate to lan i he base. 
long, often 3 together, on a short axillary peduncle, with a whorl 
