Galium.'] txxv. rubiace^. (J. D. Hooker.)' 209 



The Fuhjas, at Hussar, Aitckison. — Sistbib. Beluchistan, Affghanistan, Asia 

 Minor, and Greece. 



Annual; stem erect, 6-8 in., terete. Leaves J-f by ^ in., the lower shorter and 

 broader, margins revolute, hardly scabrid. Cymes equalling and exceeding the leaves; 

 branches and pedicels capillary. Corolla most minute, glabrous, yellow. Fniit JL in. 

 diam., glabrous or with a few short hooked hairs. — Described from Beluch and Affghan 

 specimens, the Punjab ones being very imperfect. 



19. G. ceratophylloldes, .Hbo^./. ; stems erect suTjaimple short very 

 slender smooth and glabrous, leaves in close-set whorls of 6 horizontal and re- 

 curved very slender soft flat aristate, peduncles axillary shorter than the leaves 

 3-flowered, ovary glabrous. 



Kashmir, at Poosiana, alt. 8500 ft., C. B. Clarice. 



Perennial? Stems 4-6 in., 4-angled, weak, filiform, perfectly smooth. Leavet 

 ^ in., rather flaccid, longer than the internodes, finely acuminate and aristate, minutely 

 scabrid towards the apex, margins hardly recurved, midrib not prominent beneath. 

 Peduncles erect, with 2 subulate bracts at the tip. Corolla yellowish; segments Ian.; 

 ceolat«, long-acuminate. Frait not seen; 



tt Leaves ^-nerved from the hose. 



20. C vemum, Scop.; DC. JProdr. iv. 605; slightly scabrid or pubea-: 

 cent, decumbent, weak, leaves shortly petioled 4 in a whorl elliptic tip 

 rounded 3-nerved from the base, peduncles axillary shorter than the leaves few- 

 flowered, fruit smooth glabrous. Seich. Ic. Fl. Oerm. t. 1185; Boiss. JFl. 

 Orient, iii. 80. 



Westben Himalaya ; Chumba, alt. 9000 ft., C. B. Clarke. — Disteib. Central and 

 S. Europe, Siberia. 



Perennial. Stem 6-10 in., sparingly branched, hairs reflexed. Leaves J-| by J-J 

 in., membranous; nerves slender. Peduncle horizontal, ebracteate, pedicels very short. 

 Corolla yellow, green ; segments lanceolate.^ — The specimens are very scanty, and not 

 in fruit ; in the European plant the fiowers are polygamous, the lateral (3', the termi- 

 nal hermaphrodite, and the peduncle is recurved in fruit. , ' 



91. ASFEItVZ.A, Unn. 



Characters and distrihution of Galium, but the corolla funnel-shaped. 



1. A. cynanolxiDa,, Idnn. ; JDC. Prodr. iv. 582; glabrous, stems very 

 numerous ascending or erect, leaves small linear-oblong obtuse lower in whorls 

 of 4 upper opposite, flowers glabrous in terminal fascicles, bracts linear acute, fruit, 

 granulate. Wight III. 1. 128 bis ; Seiah. Ic. Fl. Oerm. 1. 1181 ; Boiss, Fl. Orient. 

 iii. 40. 



Western Himalaya ; Kashmir, alt. 8000 ft.. Falconer, C. B. Clarke ; Kistwar, 

 alt. 7-9000 ft., Thomson; Garwhal, at Niti, alt. 11,500 ft., Strach. ^ Winterb.—Dis- 

 TBJB. Europe, Asia Minor. 



Glabrous, rarely, sparsely pubescent, 4-10 in. high: stock woody; stems slender 

 terete, branches 4-angled. Leaves scattered, |-| by =jL— i. in.^ mostly opposite', often 

 recurved, acute or obtuse, flat, thick, nerveless. Flowers at the naked tips of the 

 slender branches in corymbiforjn fasoicres or heads, suibtendedby 2 small linear-oblong 

 bracts. Corolla pink or white, about -^ in. long ; segments 4, triangiilar, shorter than 

 the tube. Fruit -^ in. A\a,m.. 



2. A. hvacbyantha^ Boiss.;- Fl. Orient, iii.. 46; Yab. with, longer 

 coroUa ; glabrous or puberulous, stems very numerous erect virgate, leaves oppo- 

 site shortly linear oblong obtusej flowers tomentose in terminal head's or fascictes, 

 bracts very short oblong obtuse,. cbroUa fumaebBhaped, fruit globose smooths 



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