Galium] RubiacecZ. 373 



The roots afford an excellent red dye, but it does not appear to be 

 used here. 



47. GAIiIUBX, Linn. 



Slender herb, I. 4-6 in a whorl; fl. minute, sessile, axillary; 

 cal.-segm. o; cor. rotate, without a tube, lobes 4, cut almost to 

 base, valvate ; stam. 4, inserted at mouth of cor., anth. globose ; 

 ov. 2-celled, style bifid, stigmas globose ; fruit very didymous, 

 tipped with short styles. — Sp. 150; 20 in Fl. B. Ind. 



A genus of Temperate climates; one other species occurs in the 

 Nilgiris. 



G. asperifolium, Wall, in Roxb. Fl. Ind. (ed. Wall.) i. 381 (1820). 

 Thw. Enum. 151. C. P. 1682. 

 Fl. B. Ind. iii. 207 (G. Mollugd). 



Stems very slender, prostrate, rooting at the nodes below, 

 2 or 3 ft. long, weak, much-branched, 4-angled, glabrous or 

 very slightly rough on the angles ; 1. 4-6 in a whorl, small, 

 \-\ in., sessile, lanceolate or linear-oblong, narrowed to base, 

 obtuse and cuspidate at apex, glabrous, with a few coarse 

 recurved prickles on midrib beneath, and on slightly recurved 

 margin ; fl. solitary in axils of minute bracts, forming a small 

 dichotomous leafy inflor. ; cor.-lobes ovate, sharply acuminate; 

 stam. much shorter than cor., erect ; fruit glabrous, covered 

 with blunt warts all over. 



Upper montane zone to 7000 ft.; common. Fl. August, September; 

 pale greenish-white. 



Also in mountains of India. 



In the Fl. B. Ind. this is referred to the widely spread species (common 

 in England) G. Mollugo, L. Dries black. 



