204 LXXV. RUBIACEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Eulia. 



7. XI. tibetica, Hook. f. ; erect, short, scabrid, leaves sessile opposite or 

 4 in a whorl broadly ovate suborbicular or elliptic ovate or lanceolate, nerves 

 obscure. 



WESTERN TIBET ; NuLra and Piti, alt. 10-14,000 ft., Thomson, Lance ; Kulu, Hat/ ; 

 Karakorum mountains, alt. 10,700 ft., C. B. Clarke. 



Root (or rhizome?) long woody brown, sending up fascicles of short stout erect 

 stems as thick as a crow-quill, and covered with smooth glistening white bark, from 

 which again arise fascicles of erect annual simple or sparingly divided branches 610 

 in. high ; nodes of the stem below shortly sheathed with membranous bases of old 

 leaves. Leaves -1 by -| in., coriaceous, margins and midrib scabrid. Cymes 

 axillary and terminal, shorter than the leaves, or flowers solitary on long axillary 

 peduncles. Flowers rather large, in. diam. Corolla- segments lanceolate, acute. 

 Anthers globose. Fruit in, diam., smooth. The habit of this species is very 

 peculiar, like that of some Galia. 



8. B,. albicaulis, Boiss. ; var. stenophylla, Boiss. Fl. Orient, iii. 19 ; 

 scandent ? scabrid or almost smooth, leaves sessile opposite or 4 in a whorl 

 linear or linear-lanceolate rigid, nerves 3 from the base the lateral marginal. 

 R. Kotschyi, Boiss. II. cc. 



NORTH- WESTERN INDIA and Salt Eange, alt. 2-8000 ft. ; Murree, Fleming ; Wuzu- 

 ristan, Stewart. DISTRIB. Affghanistan, Persia. 



Stem woody below; branches rather stout, often white, quite smooth, upper green 

 with white thickened angles. Leaves 1-4 by - in., midrib and thickened margin >1 

 nerve almost quite smooth. Cymes axillary and terminal, much shorter than the 

 leaves, many-flowered ; peduncles and pedicels stout. Flowers minute, yellow. 

 Corolla-segments lanceolate, acuminate. Anthers ovoid. Fruit smooth. The flowers 

 of Boissier's specimen of his var. Kotschyi, from Schiras, are smaller and more 

 rotate than Griffith's Affghanfstan ones, which he refers to it. They are funnel- 

 shaped and glabrous in the Murree, &c., specimens. 



90. GAXiXUIK, Linn. 



Glabrous, hispid, scabrid or prickly erect or scandent weak herbs ; branches 

 square. Leaves 3 or more in a whorl, rarely opposite and stipulate, broad or 

 narrow. Flowers minute, in axillary and terminal cymes or peduncles, white 

 yellow or greenish; pedicel jointed with the ovary. Calyx-tube ovoid or 

 globose; limb 0. Corolla rotate or shortly funnel-shaped, lobes 4, rarely 3, 

 valvate. Stamens 4, rarely 3, in the corolla-tube ; filaments short ; anthers 

 didymous. Ovary 2-celled ; style short, arms 2 with capitate stigmas ; ovules 1 

 erect in each cell, attached to the middle of the septum. Fruit small, didy- 

 mous, dry or nearly so, smooth granulate or tubercled, glabrous pubescent or 

 hispid with hooked hairs. Seed adhering to the pericarp, p'ano-convex, grooved 

 ventrally, testa membranous ; cotyledons broad thin, radicle elongate inferior. 

 DISTRIB. About 150 species, chiefly temperate. 



* Fruit covered with hooked hairs or bristles (rarely glabrous in 1. rotundi- 

 foliuni). See also 17. G. setaceum. 



t Leaves 3-nerved from the base. 



1. Gr. rotundifolium, Linn.-, DC. Prodr. iv. 599; diffuse, leaves 

 sessile or subsessile 4 in a whorl ovate or elliptic acute rnucronate or obtuse 

 3-nerved from the base, cymes exceeding the leaves, branches divaricate. 

 Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 1198; Boiss. Fl. Orient, iii. 49. G. latifolium, Ham. 

 in Don Prodr. 133. G. Hamiltoni, Spreng. ; DC. Prodr. iv. 600. G. elegaus, 

 Wall, in Roxb. Fl. Ind., ed. Carey $ Wall. i. 382; Cat. 6212; DC. 1. c. G. 

 punduanum, Wall. Cat. 7291. 



