TETRAND. MONOG. 192. Rubia. 
213 
>isaf. 
‘lima. 
Leaves in fours, nearly linear: floavers fpikeci, 5-cleft. 
Egypt. Stems proftrate at the root .• leagues rough on the upper 
furface and edge ; lowcft ones ovate. 
DifFufe : leaves revolute at the margin : brafles linear-fu- 
bulatc, roughifli : flowers fcattered. 
Spain. Leaves in fixes. 
Diffufe: leaves in about fours, linear, carinate: brailes 
linear, fringed : flowers fcatterad. 
TheEaft. Willden, l, p. 602, Lamarek, encycl. 2, p. 216. 
Ereft; leaves in about fixes, linear, downy: flowers in 
axillary and terminal pcduncled heads. 
Crete. Willd. i./p. 602. Tourn. Cor. Rubeola. 
Stem downy: corals purplilh, covered wijh fine down. 
Procumbent, fufFruticofe : leaves in fours, mucronate: 
flowers oppofite, 5-cleft. 
Crete. Montpellier. Bauh,hift. 721, J22-f. t. 
Stems woody : leaves lanceolate : bracles ovate : carols 5-clefr, 
awned anthera black. 
'“fitata 
aca 
'’“Pida. 
Procumbent, fufFruticofe: leaves in fixes, nearly lineay: 
flowers in heads, 5-clcft. 
Syria. Billard. icon. pi. Jyr. dec. i. p. 12. t. 3. 
Leaves ovate-lanceolate, acute, rough : fiavoers black. 
Procumbent : leaves acute ; thofe of the ftem in fours, ovatej 
thofe of the branches linear ; flowers fpiked. 
Montpellier. Branches alternate : /pikes ternunal. 
Stem hifpid : leaves lanceolate, hirfute, ojrpofite : flowers 
in terminal umbels. 
New Spain. Martyn Mill. DiSl. n.-'j. 
4-cornered, rough, prickly; yforyrrr cluftered. 
‘‘‘eanat Leaves linear-lanceolate, hirfute, oppofite: flem creft^j 
villous : flowers axillary, folitary. 
New Spain. Martyn Mill.Difl, n. 8 . 
Leaves coveted with flinging hairs : /ov-er ■pale blue. 
192. RUBIA. Carol i-petalied, campanulate, fupd- 
rior: berries 2, i-leeded. Madder. 
Leaves annual, in fours, lanceolate : ftem prickly. 
South of Europe. Woodv med. hot, t. 68. Blackvj, t. 26. 
Root red, ufed by dyers, and tinging the bones of fuch animals 
as feed upon it; ftems fquare, procumbent, jointed: leaves 
pointed, rough, fringed : Aoveers yellow. 
chiknsis. 
