Plants of the Punjab. 153 
ass a ere ee ee 
Herss, Erect, with Opposite Exstreunats Simpie LEAVES. 
Galium verum, 
Ladies’ bedstraw, 
RUBIACER. 
Ff. B..1. i. 208. 
Himalaya, 
5-10,000 ft. 
Kashmir, Lahul. 
Galium tenuissimum, 
RuBIACER. 
Y.-L. i. 208: 
The Plains at 
Rawalpindi, 
Kashmir, 
5-6,500 ft. 
Galium setaceum, 
RuBIACER. 
PER. FT, 13-208: 
The Plains, Hissar 
(Aitchison). 
Galium 
ceratophylloides, 
RuBIACER. 
F. B. I. iii. 209. 
Kashmir, 83500 ft. 
Pusiana (Clarke). 
Galium vernum, . 
Asperula cynanchieca, 
Squinancywort, — . 
RUBIACES.  - 
- Be Bal ni..205. 
“'8.000 fe: 
Himalaya, Kashmir, ~ : 
~ 5. “of-branches with 2, small linear oblong bracts, corolla 
Lear Margins Entire. 
PETALS UNITED. 
small, perennial, smooth, stem velvety upwards 
leaves 3-1 by ;4-din., 8-10 in a circle, linear, point rigid 
tapering, sessile, margins turned in, flowers bright yellow 
minute in very many short many-flowered clusters 
fruit =‘; in. diam., smooth; otherwise like the last Species. 
small, annual, very slender, the plant appears broad 
above and narrow below, the stem dividing into two, 
the branches into two or three, rough with the roughness 
directed downwards, leafy at the forks only, leaves 3-3 
by 3; in., 6 in acircle, linear, rough, with scattered bristles, 
margins turned in, flowers white or yellowish, minute, in 
large loose-flowered clusters on long slender stalks, corolla 
lobes sharp, stiff-pointed, fruit tz in. diam. ; otherwise 
like the last species. 
small, annual, stems round, minutely rough or smooth, 
leaves 3-3 by = in., upper filiform, short-pointed, bristly, 
margins turned in, lower shorter, broader at the tip, not 
bristly, flowers most minute, yellow, in terminal and 
lateral few-flowered clusters on slender stalks equal to or 
longer than the leaves, fruit 4, in., smooth or with a few 
hooked hairs ; otherwise like the last species. 
small, stems hardly branching, short, 4-angled, very 
slender, quite smooth, leaves 4 in., in close get circles 
of six, rather weak, finely long-pointed with bristles, 
minutely rough towards the tip, flowers very minute, 
yellowish in axillary 8-flowered clusters on erect stalks 
shorter than the leaves with 2 awl-like bracts at the 
tip, corolla segments lanceolate, long-pointed ;_ other- 
wise like the last species. 
see Herbs, Prostrate, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple. 
small, perennial, smooth, rarely almost velvety, stock 
woody, stems many, slender, round, branches square, 
leaves 4-3 by {g-§ in., small, linear-oblong, blunt, lower 
-..In circles of 4, upper in pairs, flowers qo in. long, pink 
or white, in slender clusters or heads at the naked tips 
funnel-shaped, lobes:'4; triangular, shorter than the tube, 
fruit ‘7 in. diam. ; otherwise like Galium. 
