396 69. TALEKIAJTACEiE. 



69. YALERIANACE^E. 



1. Patrinia angustifolia, Hemsl., n. sp. 



Herba perennis, robustiuscula, fere undique glabra, caulibus 

 erectis, saltern 3 ped. altis, teretibus infra simplicibus. Folia 

 (radiealia non visa) petiolata, craswiuscula, anguste lanceolata, 

 usque ad 6 poll, longa, utrinque louge attenuata, acuta, infe- 

 riora, pauci-grosseserrata, superiora integerrima, venis primariis 

 paucis cra9siusculis. Flores lutei, mediocres, in cymas densas 

 2-3 poll, latas dispositi, cjmis corymbosis, pedicellis brevibus 

 minutissime puberulis ; corolla ecalcarata, breviter tubulosa, lobis 

 rotundatis ; stamina 4. Fructus (maturus non visus) fere ob- 

 solete puberulus, bractea aucta oblonga nervosa subteodus, 

 cellulis vacuis fertili fere dimidio brevioribus. 



Hupeh : Ichang and immediate neighbourhood (A. Henry, 

 1657 !). Herb. Kew. 



Characterized by long, narrow, glabrous, distantly toothed, or 

 entire leaves. Judging from the young state, the mature bract 

 subtending the fruit would be large and oblong in shape. 



2. Patrinia heterophylla, Bunge, Fmim. PL Chin. Bor. p. 35 ; 

 Walp. Sep. ii. p. 526 ; Hance in Journ. Bot. 1874, p. 261 ; 

 Franchet, PI. David, p. 157. 



Patrinia graveolens, Hancs, in Ann. Sc. Nat. 4 me serie, xv. p. 224? 



Chihli : near Peking (Firilowl Mcellendorffl Bretschneiderl 

 Williams ! Bushell !), Jehol (David, 1993 !) ; Chekiang : moun- 

 tains south of Ningpo at 4000 feet (Hancock !); Fokien: near 

 the western boundary (de Grijs, hb. Hance, 6694 !) ; Kiangsi : 

 Kiukiang (Shearer !). Mus. Brit. ; Herb. Kew. 



Mongolia. 



There is a little uncertainty about the limits of this and some 

 other species of the genus?, which we cannot remove in the absence 

 of authenticated specimens of some of the forms described as 

 species. Hance himself (Journ. Bot. 1883, p. 322) reduces his 

 P. graveolens to P. ovata, which is here treated as a form of 

 P. villosa. 



[Patrinia intermedia, Eoem. et Schult., is recorded as Chinese 

 by De Candolle (Prodr. iv. p. 624), but, it would seem, erro- 

 neously.] 



3. Patrinia rupestris, Juss. in Ann. Mus. Par. x. p. 311 ; 



