246 Lxx. rubiacej: (hiern). [Galium. 



Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, Alajm / ; Cameroons Mountains, Mann! 



irile Xiand. Abyssinia, Schimper ! 



Var. 5. hamatum. Fruit somewhat tuberculate, not hispid or sparingly so. — G. 

 hamatum, Hochst. in Hb. Schimp. Abyss, ii. n. 675 (1842); A. Kich. PI. Abyss, i. 

 p. 345. 



MTile ILand. Abyssinia, Schimper! i. n. 675, 1853. n. 610; 1862. n. 735, 

 Both ! 



This species is very widely spread over the world. 



4. CS*. XIKoUugro, Linn. Sp. PI, ed. i., p. 107 (1753); var. 

 ((?. erectum, Huds.) Glabrous or very nearly so, perennial. Stems 

 erect or ascending, slender, not tnmid at the nodes. Leaves narrowly 

 linear, 8-6 in a whorl, acnte, about -^ in. long, attenuate at the base, 

 finely scabrid on the margin, 1-uerved. Flowers white, small, in small 

 divaricately branched terminal panicles. Fruit very small, glabrous, 

 subrugose, on short straight slender divaricate pedicels. 



XflTile Ziand. Abyssinia, Schimper! 

 Widely distributed over Europe, &c. 



5. G. simense, Hochst. in Hb. Schimp. Abyss, ii. n. 548 (1842). 

 Glabrous throughout, apparently annual, caespitosely bi'anched from 

 the crown of the root. Branches decumbent or prostrate, a few inches 

 or a foot long, angular. Leaves 6 in a whorl, sublinear, attenuate 

 towards the base, macronate, ^-^ in. long, l-nerved. Flowers purplish, 

 3-4 together on short peduncles terminating short lateral brunches. 

 Corolla I in. diam. Fruit smooth, -jJ^ in. long, ^ in. diam. — A. Rich. 

 Fl. Abyss, i. p. 344 ; non Fresen. 



xrile Ztand. Abyssinia, Schimper ! Nubia, Soturba ex Schweinf. Fl. Sot. p. 17. 



6. G, Decaisnel, Boiss.Diagn., Ser. I., 6, p. 69; /3. latifoUunij 

 Boiss. Fl. Orient, iii. p. 77. Annual, glabrous or nearly so, 6-9 in. 

 high, branched from the base, erect or decumbent. Branches very 

 slender. Upper leaves usually 6 together, setaceous-linear, narrowed 

 at both ends, attenuate towards the base, l-nerved, ^— ^ in. long, mar- 

 gins revolute, lower leaves spathulate, much broader, jVtV i^- broad, 

 base quasi-petiolate. Panicles terminal, very divaricately branched, not 

 leafy towards the apex ; pedicels very slender, |~^ in. long. Flowers 

 minate, purple (ex Boissier). Ovary glabrous, smooth. — Cfr. Galium^ 

 8p. tenuifol., Schweinf. Fl. Soturba, p. 17, n. 170. 



Wile Ziand. Nubia, Soturba, Schweinf urth ! 

 Occurs also in the Levant and Persia. 



Vaillayitia hispida, Linn., a common weed in the Levant, is given by Boissier, Fl. 

 Orient, iii. p. 83, as extending to Nubia. The genus differs from Ruhia and Galium 

 by its ternate flowers, with connate at length thickened and decurved pedicels, the 

 lateral flowers being male only and the middle one hermaphrodite and fertile. 



The following genus is of unknown position in the Order. 

 79. Benzoioa, Schum. Beskr. Guin. PI. 113. 

 Calyx globose, very small ; limb 5-dentate, lobes erect, rather acute. Corolla 

 tubrilar, coriaceous, glabrous; tube cylindrical ; limb 5-cleft, when closed capitellate- 



