206 Lxxv. EUBIACEJI. (J. D. Hooker.) 



nerved, nerves very slender, peduncles axillary and terminal 1-flowered. G. 

 Aparine, var. pauciflorum, Maxim, in BiiU. Imp. Acad., Mel. Siot. ix. 259. 



Western TffiET ; Nubra, Pangim and Karakoram mta., alt. 12-14,000 ft., Thomson, 

 C. B. Clarke, Henderson. — Distew. N. China. 



Annual, very much more slender than G. Aparine, ^nd almost quite smooth. 

 Stems filiform or capillary. Leaves ^f in., membranous, midrib slender. Margins 

 minutely scabrid. Fedimcle \-^ in., rarely 2-flowered. Flowers minute, white. Fruit 

 very small, covered ■with hooked hairs. 



6. G. vestitum, Don Prodr. 133 ; suterect, scaberulously pubescent all 

 over, leaves sessile 4-5 in a virhorl oblong obtuse rigid, margins i-ecurved, nerves 

 obsolete, cymes small terminal and axillary few-flowered. 



Western and Central Himalaya, alt. 6-10,000 ft.; Garwhal, Falconer, &c. ; 

 Sipal, Wallich. 



Perennial ; stems stout for the size of the plant, ascending. Leaves J-| in., 

 equally pubescent on both surfaces. Cymes short, but longer than the leaves, 

 branches short, divaricate. Flowers minute. Fruit very small, clothed vrith hooked 

 hairs. 



7. €r. Iiirtiflorum, Requien in DC. Prodr. iv. 600 ; suberect or decum- 

 bent, glabrate or laxly clothed with long weak hairs, leaves sessile 4-nate linear 

 obtuse or subacute, margins recurved, nerves obscure, cymes axillary and ter- 

 minal longer than the leaves paniculate. G. ciliatum, Don Prodr. 133. G. 

 Aparine, Wall. Cat. 6213, in part. 



Temperate Himalata; Garwhal, Falconer; Nipal, WalUch; Sikkim, alt. 6-10,000 

 ft., J.D.H. 



Stems weak, 1-2 ft., branched, shining, never scabrid, the spreading or reversed 

 hairs being weak and long, or absent. Leaves ^-1 by ^-^ in., rather rigid, covered all 

 over, or on the stout midrib beneath and margins only, with long hairs. Cymes hori- 

 zontal, 1-2 in. long, slender, and with few slender divaricate distant pairs of branches. 

 Flowers on slender pedicels, minute. CoroUa-segments ovate, obtuse, ciliate. Fruit 

 very small, ^ in. diam., clothed with hooked bristles. 



8. Cr. confertum, Moyle mss. ; clothed with soft spreading hairs, stems 

 weak interlaced, leaves sessile 4-5 in a whorl broadly elliptic or obovate obtuse, 

 margins flat, nerves obsolete, peduncles axillary and terminal very short 1- 

 flowered. 



Western Himalaya ; Kunawur, alt. 7-8000 ft., Boyle, Thomson. 



Boot woody, giving off innumerable interlaced slender stems, 6-8 in. long. Leaves 

 J-l by ^-^ in., floral minute. Peduncles Jg-^ in. when flowering. Corolla-segments 

 ovate-lanceolate, acuminate. Ovary hispid. Fruit not seen. 



9. G-. paradoxum, Maxim, in BvU. Acad. Petersb., Mel. Biol. Dec. xvi. 

 263 ; procumbent, very slender, quite smooth and almost glabrous, leaves petioled 

 opposite and stipulate rarely 4 in a whorl orbicular or orbicular-ovate obtuse 

 apiculate penni-nerved, flowers axillary and solitary and in very small terminal 

 few-flowered cymes. G. stellarisefolium, Pi-anch. ^ Sauat. Enum. PI. Jap. i. 

 213 ; ii. 392. 



Sikkim Himalaya ; by water courses at Choongtam, alt. 8-9000 ft., J. 2). H. — 

 DisTBiB. Manchuria, Japan. 



Annual ? Steins flexuous, a span long, -almost filiform, quite smooth, succulent. 

 Liaves in distant pairs, \-^ in. long and as broad or rather less, perfectly smooth, 

 very rarely with a few scattered appressed hairs ; base rounded or narrowed into 

 the distinct petiole |-i in. long ; nerves and midrib faint ; stipules minute, inter- 

 petiolar, subulate. Flowers minute, if solitary and axillary on a pedicel i in., when 

 terminal 3-nate, or several on a very short branched peduncle. CoroUa-segmentg 



