Oaliuni.] Lxx. rubiace^ (hiern). 245 



Stem branches and margins of leaves aculeate-sca- 

 brid. Fruit hispid with hooked hairs or rarely 

 glabrous. Panicles not divaricately branched . 3. 6. Aparine. 

 Stem and branches glabrous; margins of leaves 

 finely scabrid. Fruit glabrous, subrugoso. 



Panicles divaricately branched 4. G. Mollugo. 



Flowers purplish, 3-4 together, or short peduncles 



terminating short axillary branches 6. G. simense. 



Flowers purple in very divaricate slender terminal 



panicles ; pedicels capillary 6. G. Decaisnei. 



1. G-. BlafrsB, Hiern. Root slender, cajspitosely branched at the 

 apex. Branches creeping or scandent, hispid-hirsute, quadrangular, 

 rather slender, leafy. Leaves quaternate, ovate- elliptical, acuminate- 

 apiculate, wedge-shaped at the base, setulose, 3-iierved, ^^ in. long. 

 Flowers yellow, in terminal divaricately branched panicles. Fruit 

 ^ in. diam., densely setose-hispid, on straight divaricate pedicels of 

 1^-^ in. — G. rotundifolium^ var. foliis acutioribus, Hook. f. in Joum. 

 Linn. Soc. Lond. vi, p. 11 and vii. p. 197 ; non Linn. 



Vpper Guinea. Fernando Po, on the very top of Clarence Peak, Mann ! Ca- 

 meroon Mountains, 7-12,000 It. alt., Mann! 



2. G. rotundifolium, Lmn. Sp. PI, ed. i., p. 108 (1753). Root 

 creeping, perennial. Stems slender, flaccid, angular, ascending or 

 prostrate, hispidulous. Leaves quaternate, oval, somewhat wedge- 

 shaped at the base, obtuse and cuspidate-mucronate, 3-nerved, setulose 

 on the margin and nerves, J-| in. long. Flowers small, in terminal 

 divaricately branched panicles. Corolla white, Fniit setose-hispid. — 

 G. dasycarpum, Hochst. ex Schweiuf. Beitr. Fl. ^thiop. p. 135. 



STile Xiand. Abyssinia, Schimper ! 



Occurs also in Europe, the Cape de Verde Islands, Natal, &c. 



3. G. Aparine, Linn, Sp. PI, ed. i. p. 108, (1753). Annual, 

 flaccid, scandent. Stem and branches quadrangular, aculeate- 

 scabrid with short hairs directed downward or nearly glabrous, 

 somewhat hirsute about the nodes. Leaves G-9 in a whorl, subiinear 

 or narrowly elliptical, attenuate towards the base, mucrouate, 1-nerved, 

 ^1 in, long, sometimes rather smaller, margins retrorsely aculeate. 

 Flowers small ; corolla ranging up to ^ in. diam., white or greenish ; 

 the axillary peduncles rather longer than the leaves, the terminal ones 

 subpaniculate. Fruit -j^s i°- ^^^S^ 6"4 ^^- diam., beset with hooked 

 bristles or rarely glabrous, on erect divaricate pedicels. 



irile X^and. Abyssinia, Petit ! Schimper ! 



The following varieties may prove to be distinct species, as indeed they have 

 often been regarded. 



Var. j8. VaUlantii (DC.) Fruit smaller, usually glabrous. Whole plant also 

 less.— ^. hamatum, Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. JEthiop. 135 fid*^ Vatkein Linnsea si. p. 198, 

 non Hochst. 



Xrile :Land. Abyssinia, Schimper (ex Vatke). 



Var. 7. spuHum (L.) Fniit smooth, glabrous.— &. Apanne L., var. hamatum. 

 Hook, f.in Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond. vi. p. 2, vii. p. 197. G. sinunse, Fresen. in Mus. 

 Senckenb. ii. p. 165 (1837), non Hochst. 



