Galtum.] LXXV. RUBIACE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) 2Q9 



THK PUNJAB, at Hussar, Aitchison. DISTEIB. Beluchistan, Afghanistan, Asia 

 Minor, and Greece. 



Annual ; stem erect, 6-8 in., terete. Leaves -f by ^ in., the lower shorter and 

 broader, margins revolute, hardly scabrid. Cymes equalling and exceeding the leaves ; 

 branches and pedicels capillary. Corolla most minute, glabrous, yellow. Fruit ^in. 

 diam., glabrous or with a few short hooked hairs. Described from Beluch and Affghan 

 specimens, the Punjab ones being very imperfect. 



19. G-. ceratophylloides, JTook.f.; stems erect subsimple short very 

 slender smooth and glabrous, leaves in close-set whorls of 6 horizontal and re- 

 curved very slender soft flat aristate, peduncles axillary shorter than the leaves 

 3-flowered, ovary glabrous. 



KASHMIR, at Poosiana, alt. 8500 ft., C. B. Clarke. 



Perennial? Stems 4-6 in., 4-angled, weak, filiform, perfectly smooth. Leaves 

 in., rather flaccid, longer than the internodes, finely acuminate and aristate, minutely 

 scabrid towards the apex, margins hardly recurved, midrib not prominent beneath. 

 Peduncles erect, with 2 subulate bracts at the tip. Corolla yellowish; segments lan- 

 ceolate, long-acuminate. Fruit not seen. 



ft Leaves 3-nerved from the base. 



20. Gr. vernum, Scop. ; DC. Prodr. iv. 605; slightly scabrid or pubes- 

 cent, decumbent, weak, leaves shortly petioled 4 in a whorl elliptic tip 

 rounded 3-nerved from the base, peduncles axillary shorter than the leaves few- 

 flowered, fruit smooth glabrous. Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 1185; B&iss. FL 

 Orient, iii. 80. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA; Chumba, alt. 9000 ft., C. B. Clarke. DISTRIB. Central and 

 S. Europe, Siberia. 



Perennial. Stem 6-10 in., sparingly branched, hairs reflexed. Leaves ~| by ^-\ 

 in., membranous, nerves slender. Peduncle horizontal, ebracteate, pedicels very short. 

 Corolla yellow, green ; segments lanceolate. The specimens are very scanty, and not 

 in fruit; in the European plant the flowers are polygamous, the lateral <J, the termi- 

 nal hermaphrodite, and the peduncle is recurved in fruit. 



91. ASPERULA, Linn. 



Characters and distribution of Galium, but the corolla funnel-shaped. 



1. A. cynanchica, Linn.] DC. Prodr. iv. 582; glabrous, stems very 

 numerous ascending or erect, leaves small linear-oblong obtuse lower in whorls 

 of 4 upper opposite, flowers glabrous in terminal/ascicles, bracts linear acute, fruit 

 granulate. Wight III. 1. 128 bis j Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 1181 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient. 

 iii. 40. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA ; Kashmir, alt. 8000 ft., Falconer, C. B. Clarke ; Kistwar, 

 alt. 7-9000 ft., Thomson; Garwhal, at Niti, alt. 11,500 ft., Strach. $ Winterb. DIS- 

 TRIB. Europe, Asia Minor. 



Glabrous, rarely sparsely pubescent, 4-10 in. high : stock woody ; stems slender 

 terete, branches 4-angled. Leaves scattered, \~ by ~-\ in., mostly opposite, often 

 recurved, acute or obtuse, flat, thick, nerveless. Flowers at the naked tips of the 

 slender branches in corymbiform fascicles or heads, subtended by 2 small linear-oblong 

 bracts. Corolla pink or white, about ^ i n - l n g J segments 4, triangular, shorter than 

 the tube. Fruit i in. diam. 



2. A. brachyantha, Bom. ; Fl. Orient, iii. 45; VAR. with longer 

 corolla ; glabrous or puberulous, stems very numerous erect virgate, leaves oppo- 

 site shortly linear oblong obtuse, flowers tomentnse in terminal heads or fascicles, 

 bracts very short oblong obtuse, corolla funnel-shaped, fruit globose smooth. 



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