Galium.] LXXV. EUSTACES. (J. D. Hooker.) 205 



Throughout the HIMALAYA and KHASIA MTS., alt. 4-10,000 ft., common. WESTERN 

 PENINSULA ; Nilgherry mts. DISTRIB. Europe, N. Africa, W. Asia. 



Perennial, glabrous or pubescent ; stem and branches trailing. Leaves ^-2 by j-| 

 in., rarely glabrous, margins usually flat. Cymes terminal ; branches, peduncles, and 

 pedicels very slender. Corolla white or yellowish-green, segments acute. Fruit 

 small, clothed with hooked hairs, rarely glabrous. 



VAR. javanicum ; very hairy, internodes shorter, leaves often suborbicular or 

 obovate apiculate, corolla more or less hairy. Gr. javanicum, Blume Bijd. 943 ; DC. I. c. 

 G. Requienanum, W. $ A. Prodr. 443; Wt. Ic. t. 1042 (hairs of fruit erroneous). 

 Nilgherry hills. Java. 



VAR. leiocarpa, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 339 ; ovary and fruit glabrous. Khasia mts., 

 J. D. H. $ T. T. Java. 



2. Gr. boreale, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. iv. 600; erect, leaves sessile 4 in a 

 whorl lanceolate obtuse rigid margins scabrid 3-nerved from the base, cymes 

 axillary and terminal many-flowered. Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 1186; Bom. FL 

 Orient, iii. 48. 



WESTERN TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, alt. 5-11,000 ft.; Kashmir, Falconer, Thomson; 

 Lahul, Jaeschke. DISTRIB. N. and Central Europe, Asia and America, the Caucasus 

 and Armenia. 



Perennial, glabrous or pubescent; stems 1-2 ft Leaves 1-2 by \-% in., mar- 

 gins recurved when dry. Cymes suberect with short divaricate branches and ovate 

 bracts. Corolla white, segments subacute. Fruit ^ in. diam., clothed with hooked 

 hairs. 



tt Leaves penni-nerved, or nerves obsolete (never S-nerved from the base). 



3. Gr. triflorum, Michx.; DC. Prodr. iv. 601; erect or decumbent, 

 almost smooth, leaves sessile 6-8 in a whorl penni-nerved and narrowly elliptic 

 or lanceolate acuminate, or petioled and shorter and broader elliptic or obovate 

 apiculate or acute, cymes few-flowered axillary and terminal. Willd. Hort. 

 Bei'ol. t. 66. G. gratum, Wall Cat. 6211. G. asperuloides, Edgew. in Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. xx. 61. Asperula galioides, Jacq. Jvum. A. consanguiuea, Klotzsch 

 in Pr. Wald. Reise. Hot. 87, t. 74. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, alt. 6-10,000 ft., from Kashmir to Bhotan. DISTRIB. 

 N. Europe, Asia and America, Central America. 



Perennial; stems usually straggling. Leaves very variable, the longer sessile 

 forms !-2 by - in., the shorter petioled ones \ 1 by 1^-^ in., upper sometimes 4 

 in a whorl, margins flat. Cymes small. Fruit small, clothed with hooked bristles. 

 Habit and odour of Asperula odorata. 



VAR. Hoffmeisteri : leaves petioled obovate-spathulate rounded at the tip. Asperula 

 Hoffmeisteri, Klotzsch. I. c. t. 75. 



4. G-. Aparine, Linn.; DC. Prodr. iv. 608; climbing, scabrid with 

 reflexed hairs or prickles, leaves sessile 6-8 in a whorl linear or narrowly 

 obovate-oblong usually narrower below the middle cuspidate, nerves obso- 

 lete, peduncles axillary 3-flowered. Eeichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 1197; Boiss. FL 

 Orient, iii. 68; Wall, in Roxb. Fl. Ind., ed. Carey $ Wall. i. 382; Cat. 6213. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA and WESTERN TIBET, ascending to 12,000 ft., from Kashmir 

 and the Salt Range to Sikkim. DISTRIB. Europe, N. Africa, N. and W. and Central 

 Asia. , 



Annual, extensively rambling or clinroing. Leaves very variable, -! by - in., 

 always mucronate with scabrid midrib and margins. Peduncles axillary and in ter- 

 minal leafy panicles, longer or shorter than the leaves, rarely 1 -flowered, peduncles 

 stout. Fruit clothed with spreading hooked bristles. 



5. Gr. pauciflorum, Bunge Enum. PI. Chin. 35; nearly smooth, very 

 slender, leaves sessile opposite or 4-6 in a whorl oblanceolate cuspidate penni- 



