Rubia. — Callipeitis. 919 
subcapitate; ovules solitary, attached at the base of the septum, 
erect, amphitropous. Fruit didymous, fleshy, 2—1-celled. Seeds 
suberect, athering to the pericarp; radicle inferior. — Scabrous herbs 
with verticillate quasi-exstipulate leaves and small flowers arranged 
in axillary and terminal cymes. 
A genus of moderate size, occuring in the temperate and tropical regions 
of the world. 
1276. Rubia tinctorum L. Spec. Plant. I (1753), p. 158. — 
Boiss. Flor. Or. II], p.17. — Rehbech. Ic. XVII, tab. 133 fig. I—IL. 
— Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., p.83 no. 493. — A straggling 
herb, of a shining green, sometimes very dwarf, sometimes trailling 
over bushes and hedges to the lengt of several feet, clinging by 
means of short recurved prickles on the edges and midribs of the 
leaves, and sometimes on the angles of the stem. Rootstock and 
sometimes also the base of the stem perennial and creeping. Leaves 
4 or 6 in the whorl, ovate-oblong or lanceolate, 2—31/, cm long, 
on very short stalks or nearly sessile. Flowers small, greenish, in 
loose axillary or terminal panicles rather longer than the leaves. 
Corolla usually 3-lobed. Fruit a small black 2-lobed berry. — 
Flow. March to April. 
M. ma. M. p. N.d. N.f. N. v. Often cultivated in the gardens 
and sometimes subspontaneous. 
Local name: fuwwa. 
Naturalized everywhere in the Mediterranean region, in wild state 
known from Italy, Greece, Asia Minor, Arabia Petraea, Syria and Persia. 
518. (4.) Callipeltis Stev. 
Flowers perfect. Limb of the calyx obsolete. Corolla 4—3- 
parted; tube 0. Stamens 4, very short. Style bifid: stigmas globular. 
Ovary by abortion 1-carpelled. Fruit oblong, consisting of 1 mericarp. 
— Annual, dwarf herbs, with one, extra-axillary, sessile, 5— 7-flo- 
wered cyme in each internode, flowers yellow, very short-pedicelled, 
the one in the fork naked, the rest subtended by a membranous, 
veined bract. Leaves in fours or twos, oblong-spathulate. 
A small genus widely spread in the Mediterranean region and South 
Africa. 
1277. Callipeltis aperta Boiss. and Buhse Aufzihl. (1856), 
p- 110. — Flor. Or. I, p. 84. — DC. Prodrom. V, p. 671. — 
Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Kg., p.83 no. 502. — A annual ereet 
plant, 5—10 cm high or sometimes somewhat more. Bracts flat, 
