168 FLORA OF TASMANIA. [Bubiacea. 
Prodr. iv. 451 ; Smith, Ic. ined. ii. t. 28 ; TratL Arch. iii. t. 129; FL Antarct. i. 23; FL N. Zeal, i. 112. 
N. repens, Ruiz et Pavon, FL Per. i. 60. t. 90. Erythrodamum alsinsBforme, Pet. Thoaars, FL Trist. 
<? Actinia, p. 42. t. 10. Gomozia Granatensis, Mut. in Linn.fil. Suppl. 29. (Gunn, 1252.) 
Hab. By springs on the summit of the Western Mountains, Gunn. — (FL Dec.) (v. v.) 
Distrib. New Zealand ; Lord Auckland's and Campbell's Islands ; South America, from New Granada 
to Cape Horn and the Falkland Islands ; Tristan d' Acunha. 
Everywhere quite glabrous. — Stems obscurely tetragonous, creeping and rooting, a span to 2 feet long, leaves 
i-| inch long, on petioles sometimes as long as the blade, broadly ovate, blunt or subacute, coriaceous or fleshy, 
shining, deep green. Flowers small and inconspicuous, sessile and axillary. Stamens exserted ; anthers broadly 
ovate. Berries amber-red according to Gunn, bright orange-red in South American specimens. I have seen no 
Tasmanian specimens but Gunn's fruiting ones. 
Gen. IV. ASPERULA, L. 
Flores hermaphroditi v. polygamo-dioici. Calycis tubus globosus v. oblongus; limbo 0. Corolla in- 
fundibuliformis v. campanulata, plerumque 4-partita. Stamina 4. Stylus ereetus, bipartitus, stigmatibus 
capitatis. Fructus didymus, subrotundus, siccus, indehiscens, 2-locularis, 2-spermus. — Herbse graciles, 
di-trichotome ramosa ; caulibus angulatis ; Mis parvis, verticillatis ; floribus cymosis. 
A very large European genus, less common in other temperate countries. About a dozen Australian species 
are known, all confined to the south-eastern quarter and Tasmania. — Slender, di-trichotomously branching herbs, 
with four-angled stems and whorled leaves. Flowers cymose, hermaphrodite or unisexual, the stamens being fre- 
quently imperfect in the female flowers, and the ovaries, etc.', in the males ; in the male flower the corolla is gene- 
rally longer than in the female, and the style shorter. Calyx-tube globose, or didymous, or oblong ; limb none. 
Corolla funnel or bell-shaped, with four spreading, valvate lobes. Stamens four. Style erect, bifid, armed with 
capitate stigmata. Fruit coriaceous, two-celled, two-seeded, indehiscent. (Name from asper, rough ; in allusion 
to the hispidity of some species.) 
§ 1. leaves always quaternate. 
1. Asperula subsimplex (Hook. fil. Lond. Journ. Bot. vi. 463); glaberrima, caule gracili sub- 
erecto simplici v. ramoso, foliis quaternis anguste linearibus obtusis subacutisve marginibus recurvis raris- 
sime remote scaberulis, pedunculis in axillis supremis solitariis binis ternisve 1-3-floris. {Gunn, 882,407.) 
Hab. Circular Head, Formosa, and Lake St. Clair, Lawrence, Gunn.—(Y\. Dec.) 
An erect and apparently tufted species, 3-6 inches high, generally quite glabrous, or slightly pubescent to- 
wards the tips. Stems slender, simple, or sometimes much branched, leaves generally shorter than the internodes, 
t-i inch long, narrow-linear, narrowed at both ends, usually acuminate, quite glabrous, or with a few scattered, 
scabrid points towards the edges. Cymes few-flowered ; peduncles as long as the leaves, rarely longer. Corolla 
bell-shaped, perfectly glabrous, with short, blunt lobes. 
§ 2. leaves quaternate and senate on the same individual. 
2. Asperula GrurnU (Hook. fil. Lond. Journ. Bot. vi. 463) ; glabriuscula, caule decumbente ra- 
moso, ramis erectis ad angulos hispido-scaberulis, foliis quaternis senisque insequalibus lineari-obovatis 
lmeari-oblongisve utrinque lsevibus marginibus recurvis obscure scaberulis, pedunculis in axillis superiori- 
bus solitariis v. pluribus 1-3-floris. (Gunn, 1123.) 
Hab. Alpine situations, not unfrequent ; Hampshire Hills, Arthur's Lakes, Lake St. Clair, Mount 
Wellington, Nive River, Lawrence, Gunn.—(Y\. Jan.) (v. v.) 
Distrib. New South Wales : Appin, Backhouse. 
