206 LXXV. RUEIACEJ:. (J. D. Hooker.) [Galium. 



nerved, nerves very slender, peduncles axillary and terminal 1-flowered. G. 

 Aparine, var. pauciflorum, Maxim, in Bnll. Imp. Acad.^ Mel. Biol. ix. 269. 



WESTERN TIBET; Nubra, Pangim and Karakoram mts., alt. 12-14,000 ft., Thomson, 

 C. B. Clarke, Henderson. DISTRIB, N. China. 



Annual, very much more slender than G. Aparine, and almost quite smooth. 

 Stems filiform or capillary. Leaves ^^ in., membranous, midrib slender, margins 

 minutely scabrid. Peduncle -4 in., rarely 2-flowered. Flowers minute, white. Fruit 

 very small, covered with hooked hairs. 



6. G-. vestitum, Don Prodr. 133 ; suberect, scaberulously pubescent all 

 over, leaves sessile 4-5 in a whorl oblong obtuse rigid, margins recurved, nerves 

 obsolete, cymes small terminal and axillary lew-flowered. 



WESTERN and CENTRAL HIMALAYA, alt. 6-10,000 ft.; Garwhal, Falconer, &c. ; 

 Nipal, Wallich. 



Perennial; stems stout for the size of the plant, ascending. Leaves J-| in., 

 ' equally pubescent on both surfaces. Cymes short, but longer than the leaves, 

 branches short, divaricate. Flowers minute. Fruit very small, clothed with hooked 

 hairs. 



7. G. hirtiflorum, Requien in DC. Prodr. iv. 600; suberect or decum- 

 bent, glabrate or laxly clothed with long weak hairs, leaves sessile 4-nate linear 

 obtuse or subacute, margins recurved, nerves obscure, cymes axillary and ter- 

 minal longer than the leaves paniculate. G. ciliatum, Don Prodr. 133. G. 

 Aparine, Wall. Cat. 6213, in part. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA; Garwhal, Falconer ; Nipal, Wallich; Sikkim, alt. 6-10,000 

 ft., J. D. H. 



Stems weak, 1-2 ft., branched, shining, never scabrid, the spreading or reversed 

 hairs being weak and long, or absent. Leaves ^-1 by ^- in., rather rigid, covered all 

 over, or on the stout midrib beneath and margins only, with long hairs. Cymes hori- 

 zontal, 12 in. long, slender, and with few slender divaricate distant pairs of branches. 

 Flowers on slender pedicels, minute. Corolla-segments ovate, obtuse, ciliate. Fruit 

 Very small, ^ in. diam., clothed with hooked bristles. 



8. G. confertum, Royle mss. ; clothed with soft spreading hairs, stems 

 weak interlaced, leaves sessile 4-5 in a whorl broadly elliptic or obovate obtuse, 

 margins flat, nerves obsolete, peduncles axillary and terminal very short 1- 

 flowered. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA ; Kunawur, ait. 7-8000 ft., Royle, Thomson. 



Root woody, giving off innumerable interlaced slender stems, 6-8 in. long. Leaves 

 i-l by ^-^ in., floral minute. Pedunclts ^-^ in. when flowering. Corolla-segments 

 ovate-lanceolate, acuminate. Ovary hispid. Fruit not seen. 



9. G. paradoxum, Maxim, in Butt. Acad. Petersb., Mel. Biol. Dec. xvi. 

 263 ; procumbent, very slender, quite smooth and almost glabrous, leaves petioled 

 opposite and stipulate rarely 4 in a whorl orbicular or orbicular-ovate obtuse 

 apiculate penni-nerved, flowers axillary and solitary and in very small terminal 

 few-flowered cymes. G. stellariselblium, Franch. fy Savat. Enum. PI. Jap. i. 

 213 ; ii. 392. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA ; by water courses at Choongtam, alt. 8-9000 ft., J. D. H. 

 DISTRIB. Manchuria, Japan. 



Annual ? Stems flexuous, a span long, almost filiform, quite smooth, succulent. 

 Lf.aves in distant pairs, - in. long and as broad or rather less, perfectly smooth, 

 very rarely with a few scattered appressed hairs; base rounded or narrowed into 

 the distinct petiole ~-% in. long ; nerves and midrib faint ; stipules minute, inter- 

 petiolar, subulate. Flowers minute, if solitary and axillary on a pedicel f in., when 

 terminal 3-nate, or several on a very short branched peduncle. Corolla-segments 



