Galium.] ixxv. RUBIACE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) 207 



ovate, obtuse, glabrous. Style 2-fid at the top. Ovary densely clothed with hooked 

 hairs. Fruit not seen. A very curious Galium; the Sikkim specimens are smaller 

 than the Manchurian, and resemble a Nertera. 



10. r. exile, Hook. f. ; minute, procumbent, stems capillary interlaced 

 flexuous, leaves minute petioled opposite elliptic acute penninerved, peduncles 

 solitary axillary and terminal 1-flowered. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, by rivulets in the interior, alt. 12-14,000 ft. 



A most delicate annual with soft weak stems a few inches long, procumbent 

 amongst moss and not thicker .than horse-hair. Leaves in distant pairs, - in. long, 

 narrowed into a short petiole, midrib and margins quite smooth ; stipules mterpetiolar, 

 low, broad, most minute. Fruiting peduncles longer than the leaves. Corolla not 

 seen. Ovary pubescent, about ^ in. diam. Fruit ^ in. diam., didymous, laterally 

 much compressed, chestnut brown, rather shining, covered with hooked hairs. 



** Fruit without hooked hairs (except 18, setaceuni), tomentose pubescent 

 scabrid tubercled granular or smooth. (See also 1. rotundifolium.) 



t Leaves pennt~nerved } or nerves obsolete {neve?' 3- nerved from the base). 



11. Cr. serpylloides, Royle mss.; softly pubescent, suberect, . stem 

 short much branched, leaves close-set sessile 4 in a whorl ovate oblong or elliptic 

 obtuse margins recurved, nerves obscure, peduncles axillary and terminal 3- 

 flowered, fruit densely clothed with long woolly straight (not hooked) hairs. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA ; Kunawur and Lahul, Royle, Thomson, Jaeschke. 



Soot woody, sending up innumerable suberect rather stout stems 24 in. high. 

 Leaves |-J by ^-\ in., midrib beneath strong. Peduncles stout, equalling or exceed- 

 the leaves ; pedicels short, stout. Flowers minute. Calyx-segments ovate, acute. 

 Fruit, including the hairs in. broad. 



12. Cr. nXollugo, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. iv. 596; glabrous or slightly scabrid 

 hispid or pubescent, stems long flaccid much branched, leaves sessile or petioled 

 6-8 in a whorl linear or narrowly linear-obovate acute or cusoidate, nerves ob- 

 scure, cymes axillary and terminal panicled many- flowered, fruit glabrous granu- 

 late. Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 1187 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, iii. 53. G. asperifolium, 

 Wall, in Roxb. Fl. Ind., ed. Carey $ Wall i. 381 ; DC. I c. 598; W. $ A. 

 Prodr. 442. G. parviflorum, Don Prodr. 133. G. Aparine, Wall. Cat. 6213 in 

 part. G. lividum, Jacq. Journ. 



Mountainous parts of India, alt. 3-10,000 ft. ; throughout the HIMALAYA, KHASIA 

 MTS., BIRMA, the higher Ghats of the WESTERN PENINSULA, and MOUNTAINS of CEY- 

 LON. DISTRIB. Europe, N. Africa, Temperate Asia, Ava. 



Perennial ; very variable. Stems 2-3 ft., scandent and rambling. Leaves -1 by 

 - in., rather rigid, often polished above, margins usually recurved, midrib strong 

 beneath. Cymes with short slender stiff divaricate branches, pedicels recurved in 

 fruit. Corolla small, white, segments ovate. Fruit black, ^ in. diam. 



13. G. tricorne, With.] DC. Prodr. iv. 608; very scabrid, stems stout, 

 leaves sessile 6-8 in a whorl linear or oblanceolate cuspidate, nerves obscure, 

 peduncles stout axillary 1-3-flowered, fruit glabrous or scabrous granulate. 

 Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 1198 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, iii. 67. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA; Kashmir, ascending to 13.000ft; and WESTERN TIBET, 

 Thomson. Hills at ATTOCK, Falconer. WUZUEISTAN, Stewart. DISTRIB. Central and 

 S. Europe, N. Africa, W. Asia. 



A stout annual, 1-2 ft., retrorsely scabrid. Leaves 1-1 by |- in., rigid, midrib 

 strong beneath. Peduncles longer or shorter than the leaves, stout and elongate, with 

 decurved tips in fruit. Corolla white ; segments ovate, acute. Fruit large, in. 

 diam. 



