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Herbs, erect, with Opposite Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Leaf Margins Entire. 



Petals United. 



on slender stalks equal to or longer than the leaves; 

 fruit g-t in., smooth or with a few hooked hairs ; 

 otherwise like the last species. 



Galium ceratophylloides, 



RlTBIACE^E. 



P. B. I. iii. 209. 



Kashmir, 8,500 ft. 

 Pusiana, (Clarke). 



Galium vernum, 



Asperula cynanchica, 



RuBIACEjE. 



F. B. I. iii. 209. 

 Himalaya, Kashmir, 

 8,000 ft. 



Asperula brachyantha, 



PtUBIACE^;. 



F. B. I. iii. 209. 

 Himalaya, Kashmir, 

 7-12,000 ft. 



Scabiosa Olivieri, 

 Scabiosa speciosa, 

 Spilanthes Acmella, 



small, stems hardly branching, short, 4-angled, 

 very slender, quite smooth ; leaves ^ in., in close 

 set circles of six, rather weak, finely long-pointed 

 with bristles, minutely rough towards the tip ; 

 flowers very minute, yellowish in axillary 3-fLowered 

 clusters on erect stalks shorter than the leaves with 

 two awl-like bracts at the tip, corolla segments 

 lanceolate, long-pointed ; otherwise like the last 

 species. 



see Herbs, Prostrate, Opposite, Exstipulate, 

 Simple. 



small, perennial, smooth, rarely just velvety, 

 stock woody, stems many, slender, round, branches 

 square ; leaves J-f by T \-$ in., small, linear oblong, 

 blunt, lower in circles of 4, upper in pairs ; flowers 

 T ^ in. long, pink or white in slender clusters or 

 heads at the naked tips of branches with 2 small 

 linear oblong bracts, corolla funnel-shaped, lobes 4, 

 triangular, shorter than the tube, fruit t l in. diam.; 

 otherwise like Galium. 



very like the last species, but with shorter leaves 

 in pairs, shorter blunter bracts, and woolly longer 

 corolla ; flowers more in heads. 



see Herbs, Erect, Opposite, Exstipulate, Lobed. 



see Herbs, Erect, Opposite, Exstipulate, Lobed. 



see Herbs, Erect, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple, 

 Toothed. 



