922 Rubiaceae, 
— An annual, small erect plant, 6—10 cm high, sometimes especially 
in shady places somewhat more; glabrous, drying black; stem 
thickish, divaricately branched from the base, corymbose. Leaves 
in eights, short oblong-spathulate, 3—5 mm long, mucronate, with 
retrorsely scabrous margins, the upper in pairs, narrower. Pedunecles 
trichotomous; pedicels thickish, scarcely twice as long as the flower 
and glabrous fruit. — Flow. March to April. 
M. p. Qatiya. 
Also known from Arabia Petraea, Palestine and Syria. 
1282. (4.) Galium murale (L.) All. Flor. Pedem. I (1785), 
p- 8 tab. 77 fig. 1. — Boiss. Flor. Or. II, p. 78. — Rehbch. Le. XVII, 
tab. 14. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Hg., p. 83 no. 499. — Boiss. 
Flor. Or., Supplem. p. 283. -—  Aschers.-Schweinf. Il. Flor. d’Keg., 
Supplem. p. 759. — Sickenberg. Contrib. Flor. d’Eg., p. 242. — An 
annual erect plant from LO cm up to 45 cm, rarely more; glabrous 
or bispidulous; stems tufted, flaccid, filiform. Leaves 3—5 mm 
long, the lowest in fours, the upper in pairs, obovate to oblong, 
tapering at the base. Peduncles out of axils, 1—3-flowered, recurved 
in fruit; fruit cylindrical, hirsute especially at the apex. — Flow. 
March to April. 
M. ma. Alexandria-West and -Hast. 
Also known from all the other parts of the Mediterranean region. 
var. alexandrinum (Khrenberg) Aschers. and Schweinfurth in 
Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’kg. 1887), p.83 no.499. — Aschers.- 
Schweinf. Ill. Flor. @’Eg., Supplem. p. 759. — Sickenberg. Contrib. 
Flor. d’iig., p. 242. — A small plant with the aspect of Tillaea 
alata Viy., fruit with small setules. — Flow. March. 
M. ma. Marmarica; Matruga; Alexandria. 
Only known from these localities. 
1283. (5.) Galium lanatum Boiss. Flor. Or., Supplem. (1888) 
p. 283. — Galium Columella Ehrenberg in Boiss. Flor. Or. III, p. 81. 
— Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., p.83 no.500. — Aschers.- 
Schweinf. Primit. Flor. Marmar., p. 651 no. 151. — _ Sickenberg. 
Contrib. Flor. d’Ke., p. 242. — Valantia lanata Del. Ilustr. Flor. d’Kg., 
tab. 64 (in Barb. Herb. au Lev., tab. IV). — An annual small plant, 
10—30 em high, setulose-hispid, branching from the neck; stem 
gracious simple densely flowered. Leaves in fours minute, oblong, 
obtuse, narrowed at the base, longer than the spike; pedicels mem- 
branous; mericarp 2—3 mm in diameter striate with appressed, white 
apillae. — Flow. March. 
M. ma. Marmarica: Matruqa; Alexandria-West and -Hast. 
Only known from Egypt. 
