<5alium.J BUBIACEM, 431 



stipulate, broad or narrow. Flowers minute, in axillary and terminal 

 cymes or pednncles, white yellow or greenish; pedicel jointed with 

 the ovaiy. Calyx-tule ovoid or globose, limb 0. Corolla rotate or 

 shortly lunnel-shaped, lobes 4, rarely 3, valvate. Stamens 4, rarely 

 3, in the corolla-tube ; filaments short ; anthers didymous. Ovary 

 2-celled, style short, arms 2, with capitate stigmas ; ovules one 

 in each cell, erect, attached to the middle of the septum. Fruit 

 small, didymous, dry or nearly so, smooth granulate or tubercled, 

 glabrous pubescent or hispid with hooked hairs. Seed adhering to 

 the pericarp, plano-convex, grooved ventrally. — Species upwards of 

 203, mostly temperate. 



A perennial herb with weak and usually prostrate 



stems, fruiting pedicels not recurved . .!.(?. asperifoHum. 

 An annual with ascending stems, fruiting pedicels 



strongly recurved 2. G. tricorne. 



1. G. asperifolium, Wall.in Boxb. Fl. Ind. (ed. Carey. Sc Wall.) i, 381 . 

 W. ^ A- Prod. 442; Collett Fl. Siml. 235. G. Mollugo F. B. I, in, 207 



.(not of Linn.). G. parviflorum, Don Prod. 133. 



A much-branched herb. /Stems 2-3 ft. long, weak prostrate or pendulous 

 and often rooting at the nodes, the angles usually rather rough. 

 Leaves 4-6 in a whorl, sessile, 4*1 in. long, lanceolate or linear- 

 obovate, obtuse and with usually a pale-coloured apical mucro ; the 

 midrib beneath and the recurvei margins armed with a few hooked 

 prickles. Peduncles 3-flowered, arranged in axillary and terminal 

 panicled leafy cymes ; pedicels a little longer than the flowers. 

 Corolla small, white ; lobes ovate, acuminate. Fruit granulate, glabrous' 

 black when ripe. * 



Dehra Dun (Duthie), Disteib. Throughout the Himalaya up to 

 10,000 ft., exten ding eastwards to Burma and south ta Ceylon- 



2. G. tricorne, Stokes in With. Bot, Arr. Brit. PI. ed. 2, 153 j F. B I 

 Hi, 207. ' '' 



A very scabrid annual, 1-2 ft. hig-h. Stems stout, retrorsely scabrid. 

 Leaves 6-8 in a whorl, scBsile, 1-1| in. long, linear or oblanceolate, cuspi- 

 date, rigid; midrib prominent beneath, nerves obscure. Peduncles axil- 

 lary, 1-3 flowered, stout, elongate. Corolla yellowish-white ; lobes ovate 

 acute. Fruit « in. in diam., glabrous or scabrous, granulate ; pedicels 

 strongly recurved in fruit. 



Dehra Dun, in cultivated ground. Flowers in April. Distrtb. Punjab 

 plain to Kashmir (ascending to 13,000 ft.), Waziristan ; Baluchistan 

 tc N. Africa, Europe and W. Asia. 



