Galium.'] Lxxv. eubiaceji. (J. D. Hooker.) 207 



ovate, obtuse, glabrous. Style 2-fid at the top. Ovary densely clothed with hooked 

 hairs. Fruit not seen. — A very curious Galium; the Sikkim specimens are smaller 

 than the Manchurian, and resemble a Nertera. 



10. G. exile, Hook. f. ; minute, procimiTDent, stems capillary interlaced 

 flexuous, leaves minute petioled opposite elliptic acute penninerved, pedunclfs 

 solitary axillary and terminal 1-flowered. 



SiKKiM Himalaya, by rivulets in the interior, alt. 12-14,000 ft. 



A most delicate annual 'with soft weak stems a few inches long, procumbent 

 amongst moss and not thicker than horse-hair. Leaves in distant pairs, ^^ in. long, 

 narrowed into a short petiole, midrib and margins quite smooth ; stipules interpetiolar, 

 low, broad, most minute. Fruiting peduncles longer than the leaves. Corolla not 

 seen. Ovary pubescent, about 55 in. diam. Fruit i in. diam., didymous, laterally 

 much compressed, chestnut brown, rather shining, covered with hooked hairs. 



** Fruit without hooked hairs (except 18. setaceum), tomentose pubescent 

 scabrid tubercled granular or smooth. (See also 1. rotv/ndifolium.) 



t Leaves penruHnerved, or nerves obsolete (never S-nervedfrom the base). 



11. Cr. serpylloides, lioyle mss. ; softly pubescent, suberect, stem 

 short much branched, leaves close-set sessile 4 in a whorl ovate oblong or elliptic 

 obtuse margins recurved, nerves obscure, peduncles axillary and terminal 3- 

 flowered, fruit densely clothed with long wooUy straight (not hooked) hairs. 



Westebn Himalaya ; ^Eunawur and Lahul, Boyle, Thomson, JaescMce. 



Soot woody, sending up innumerable suberect rather stout stems 2-4 in. high. 

 Leaves i-J by jL-l in., midrib beneath strong. Peduncles stout, equalling or exceed- 

 the leaves ; pedicels short, stout. Flowers minute. Calyx-segmenis ovate, acute. 

 Fruit, including the hairs J in. broad. 



12. Gr. nioUu^o, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. iv. 596; glabrous or slightly scabiid 

 hispid or pubescent, stems long flaccid much branched, leaves sessile or petioled 

 6-8 in a whorl linear or narrowly linear-obovate acute or cuspidate, nerves ob- 

 scure, cymes axillary and terminal panicled many-flowered, fruit glabrous granu- 

 late. Itdehh. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 1187 ; Boiss. Fl. Oiient. iii. 63. G. asperifolium, 

 Wall, in Rcvb. Fl. Ind., ed. Carey Sr Wall. i. 381 ; DC. I. c. 598; W. 8f A. 

 Prodr. 442. G. pai-viflorum, Don Prodr. 133. G. Aparine, Wall. Cat. 6213 in 

 part. G. Uyidum, Jacq. Journ. 



Mountainous parts of India, alt. 3-10,000 ft.; throughout the Himalaya, Khasia 

 Mts., Birma, the higher Ghats of the Westeek Peninsula, and Mountains of Cey- 

 lon. — DiSTRiB. Europe, N. Africa, Temperate Asia, Ava. 



Perennial ; very variable. Stems 2-3 ft., scandent and rambling. Leaves \-l by 

 ^-^ in., rather rigid, often polished above, margins usually recurved, midrib strong 

 beneath. Cymes with short slender stiff divaricate branches, pedicels recurved in 

 fruit. Corolla small, white, segments ovate. Fruit black, ^ in. diam. 



13. G. tricome, With.; DC. Prodr. iy. 608; very scabrid, stems stout, 

 leaves sessile 6-8 in a whorl linear or oblanceolate cuspidate, nerves obscure, 

 peduncles stout axillary 1-3-flowered, fruit glabrous or scabrous granulate. 

 Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 1198 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, iii. 67. 



Westben Himalaya; Kashmir, ascending to 13,000 ft.; and Western Tibet, 

 Thomson. Hills at Attook, Falconer. Wuzdbistan, Stewart. — Disteib. Central and 

 S. Europe, N. Africa, W. Asia. 



A stout annual, 1-2 ft., retrorsely scabrid. Leaves 1-1 J by ^-J in., rigid, midrib 

 strong beneath. Pedumcles longer or shorter than the leaves, stout and elongate, with 

 decurved tips in fruit. Corolla white ; segments ovate, acute. Fruit large, ^ in, 

 diam. 



