200 RUBIACE^. 



and teeth each about 1/16 inch. Corolla tube 1/5 inch; 

 lobes Ye inch, oblong hairy within. Anthers almost 

 sessile on the throat. Style slender; stigmas four, 

 spreading, 1/50 inch each. 



The coffee-like habit gives this, among our plants, 

 a very characteristic appearance. 



Pulneys : in the sholas near Kodaikanal and on the downs. 

 Fyson 1821, 1235, 1088. 



A piece of this plant is one of Wight's type sheets of L. acuminatus. 



GALIUM AND RUBIA. 



Slender stemmed herbs, distinguished from all other 

 of our plants by the stipules not being united in pairs 

 but enlarged like leaves, and in some species even 

 divided, so that at each node there are from four to eight 

 * leaves.' Corolla lobes valvate in bud. Fruit of two 

 small coriaceous or fleshy indehiscent lobes. 

 Corolla lobes five, leaves heart-shaped stalked . . . rubia. 

 Corolla lobes four, leaves narrow Galium. 



RUBIA. F.B.I. 75 LXXXIX. 



Madder. 



A genus allied to Galium (Goose-grass, Bed-straw, 

 etc.), but with the petals five instead of four. 



Species 5, Europe, Asia, Africa and South America (/>. 

 Garance, Ger. Rote). 



Rubia cordifolia Limt. ; F.B.I, iii 202, LXXXIX I. 



Stems slender, four-angled, rough, weak and straggling 

 or climbing up shrubs and small trees. Leaves four in a 

 whorl, with unequal petioles varying from ^ to 2 inches : 

 blades cordate, usually I to 2 by ^ to I inch, but some- 

 times quite small and often only one and a half times as 

 long as broad, shining above, very scabrid ; nerves three 

 to seven carving from base to apex or the margin near 

 it, very strong. Cymes in small conicles axillary to leaf- 

 like bracts on short axillary branches. Receptacle ovoid 



