208 ixxv. ETJBiACBa;. (J. D. Hooker.) [Galiumi 



14. Cr. Spurlum, JUnn. ; DC. Prodi: iv. 608; scaljerulous, leaves subses- 

 sile 4-6 in a -whorl elliptic-lanceolate or oblanceolate obtuse or acute penninerved, 

 cymes slender elongate terminal and axillary, fruit glabrous smooth. Soise. Fl. 

 Oi-ient. iii. 69. 



Kashmir, Falconer, Thomson. 



Annual, glabrous ; stems 2-3 ft., flaccid, rambling. Leaves 1-1 i in., usually ob- 

 tuse, rather thin, midrib not strong beneath, and margins minutely seabrid. Cymes 

 much longer than the leaves, with slender distant divaricate branches. Corolla minute, 

 white ; segments ovate, obtuse. Fruit Jg in. diam., black. 



15. Cr. ■verjim, Idnn. ; DC. Prodr.ix.GOS; erect, smooth, stem pubescent 

 upwards, leaves sessile 8-10 in a whorl linear cuspidate glabrous margins revo- 

 lute, nerves obScure, cymes numerous short many-flowered, fruit glabrous 

 granular. Reichh. Ic. Fl. Oerm. t. 1187; Boiss. Fl. Oi-ient. iii. 62. 



Western Himalaya; Kashmir, alt. S-1 0,000 ft., Falconer, &c. ; Lahul, Hay, 

 Jaeschke. — Distrib. Europe, N. Africa, N. and W. Asia. 



Perennial; stems erect or rambling, 1-3 ft., terete. Leaves usually deflexed, very 

 narrow, ^-1 by Jg"^ iu-> rigid. Cymes very numerous, pedicels short, straight in fruit. 

 Corolla bright yellow; segments ovate, acute. Fruit ^ in., often pubescent in 

 Europe. 



16. G. acutum, Edgevi. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 61 ; smooth, glabrous, 

 stems interlaced, leaves sessile 6 in a wborl very small elliptic-lanceolate aristate 

 margins recui-ved, nerves obsolete, peduncles axillary short 1 -flowered, fruit 

 glabrous granulate. G. floribundum, Jacq. Joum. G. himalayense, Kiotzsch in 

 Pr. Wald. Meise Bot. 88, t. 73. 



Tejipeeate Himalaya; Kunawur, alt. 5000 ft., Edgeworth; Garwhal, alt. 10,000 

 ft.. Falconer, &c. ; Sikkim, alt. 9-13,000 ft., J. D. H., C. B. Clarke. 



Perennial, black when dry ; suberect and stiff, or flaccid and decumbent ; stems 

 6-12 in., very leafy. Leaves close-set, often recurved, ^J in., midrib strong beneath. 

 Peduncle very stout when flowering, much shorter than the leaves, elongate and 

 straight in fruit. Corolla very minute ; segments lanceolate, acuminate. Fruit i in. 

 diam,— I have noted the flowers as purplish in some Sikkim specimens, j-ellowish- 

 white in others. 



17. G. tenuisslmuxn, Bieb. Fl. Tour. Cauc. i. 104; erect, seabrid, 

 glabrous, excessively slender, widely divaricately branched, leaves 6. in a whorl 

 narrowly linear seabrid aristate, nerves obsolete, cymes very large lax very slen- 

 der few-flowered, fruit minute smooth glabrous. DC. Prodr. iv. 607 ; Boiss. 

 Fl. Orient, iii. 73. 



Westprn Himalaya; Kashmir, alt. 5000-6.^00 ft., Clarke. Punjab; at Eawul 

 Pindee, Aitchison,. — Distbib. W. Asia, from Syiia and the Caucasus to Greece. 



Annual. Stem 6-12 in., usually retrorsely seabrid, subterete, di-tri-chotomously 

 divided from the base, so that the whole plant forms a triangle with the apex at tlie 

 root, leafy at the forks only. Leaves ^-J by i in., rather broader beyond the midd'e, 

 ciliate with rigid hairs, margins revolute. Cymes many times longer than the leaves, 

 and very long pedicels capillary. Corolla minute, white or yellowish ; segments cus- 

 pidate. Fruit Jj in. diam., mericarps often free. — Too closely allied to G. divaricatum, 

 Lam., which extends from Europe to Syria. 



18. Gr. setaceum, Lamk. ; DC. Prodr. iv. 609 ; erect, short, minutely 

 seabrid or glabrous, branches filiform erect or divaricate, leaves 4r-8 in a whorl 

 filiform acute margins recurved lower short elongate-spathulate not aristate 

 upper setaceous, cymes terminal and lateral capillary few-flowered, fruit most 

 minute glabrous or with a few hooked hairs. Bois$, Fl. Orient, iii. 77. G. 

 capillare, Cav. lo. t. 191, f. 1. 



