480 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, Vol. NX. 

 Herbs, erect, with Opposite Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 

 Leaf Margins Entire. 

 Petals Ununited. 





small, smooth; leaves H-o by j-f in., oblong, 

 narrowed to both ends, margin even or minutely 

 toothed, blunt or short-pointed ; flowers on stalks 



Himalaya, 11-14,000 ft. in the axils of distant leaves, no bracts ; in other 



Kashmir. characters like the last species. 



Epilobium latifolium, 

 Ona<Jraceje. 

 F. B. I. ii. 583. 



Epilobium origanifolium, see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 

 Entire. 



Rubia tibetica, 



ElTBIACEiE. 



P. B. I. iii. 204. 

 Himalaya, 10-14,000 ft. 

 Kulu (Hay). 



Petals United. 



small, rough, perennial, root thick woody, bundles 

 of stamens each \ in. thick, stout, with glistening 

 white bark, erect, annual shoots clustered together, 

 simple or branching, nodes of the stems covered 

 with thin bases of old leaves ; leaves f-1 by J-| in., 

 sessile, broadly ovate, round or lanceolate, often in 

 a circle of four leaves, leathery, margins and midrib 

 rough; flowers Jin. diam., in axillary or terminal 

 clusters, shorter than the leaves, or solitary on long 

 axillary stalks, calyx tube ovoid or round, no teeth, 

 corolla bell-shaped, lobes 4-5, lanceolate, short- 

 pointed, stamens 4-5, anthers round, style 2-branch- 

 ed, ovary 2-celled ; fruit £ in. diam., smooth, round 

 - or almost 2-lobed, seeds 2, small. 



Galium boreale, medium size, perennial, smooth or velvety, 



HuBiACE.E. branches square ; leaves 1-2 by \-± in., 4 in a circle, 



F. B. I. iii. 205. lanceolate blunt, stiff, margins rough, sessile, 3-J 



Himalaya, 5-11,000 ft. nerved, from the base ; flowers minute, white ic 

 Kashmir, Lahoul. nearly erect axillary and terminal many-flowered 



clusters with ovate bracts, calyx tube ovoid or round 

 teeth none, corolla wheel-shaped, lobes 4, nearb 

 pointed, stamens 4 in the corolla tube, anther 

 2-lobed, style short, 2-branched, ovary 2-celled 

 fruit Ta in. diam., 2-lobed, dry, covered with hookei 

 hairs, seeds 2, small, flat on one side, convex on th< 

 other, 



