RUBIACEJE. ^01 



entire. No sepals. Corolla rotate, five-lobed. Fruit J^ 

 to Ye inch, globose or two-lobed. t. 144. 



In thickets or climbing up small trees. Common on both 

 plateaus. Fyson 294, 462, 653. Bour?ie 4. 



Gen. Dist. Intemperate climates of India, tropical Africa and Asia, 

 and Japan. 



GALIUM. F.B.I. 75 xc. 



Bed-straw, Goose-grass, etc. 



Distinguished from RUBIA by the petals being 



always four not five. 



Species over 200. In Europe several. {Ger. Klebekraut, 

 Bettstroh ; Fr. Gratteron, Caille-lait.) 



Leaves four, broad. Fruit with hooked spines ...... 



G. rotundifolium. 

 Leaves six or eight, narrow. Fruit smooth . G. asperifolium. 



Galium rotundifolium Liitn. ; F.B.I, iii 204, XC I. 

 Perennial, glabrous or pubescent, stems weak, trailing. 

 Leaves 1/5 to Yz inch broadly ovate, mucronate, three- 

 nerved.. Flower bunches at the ends of short branches. 

 Fruit with hooked spines. 



Nilgiris : on the downs near Ootacamund, Pulneys : below 

 Kodaikanal. Bourne 541, 9996, 4617. 



Galium asperifolium Wallich ; F.B.L included in Galium 



moUugo Linn., iii 20/, XC 12 ; * Indian Bed-straw. Stem 



slender, slightly rough on the four angles. Leaves at 



a node six, obovate apiculate, one-nerved, with a few 



scattered hairs. Flowering branches copiously branched, 



their leaves smaller and at the final divisions /^ or J^ 



inch only and reduced to two or three only at the node. 



Flowers minute, petals 1/16 inch ovate. Fruit nearly 



glabrous. Climbing on bushes and shrubs. 



Pulneys : on the downs above Kodaikanal. Nilgiris : on 

 the plateau (?) Ootacamund. Fyso?i 494, 665, 1284, 2082, 

 3055. Bourne 36. 



Gen. Dist, Mountains of India, Himalayas, etc. 



