210 LXXVI. VALERIANEE. (C. B. Clarke.) 
.. Wesrern Himaraya; Kashmir, alt. 7-12,000 ft., Falconer, C. B. Clarke; Kuna- 
wur, Royle, Thomson, &c.— DrisrRIn, Persia, 
Very similar to A. cynanchica, and scarcely distinguishable except by the shorter 
always opposite leaves, shorter blunter bracts, and tomentose more capitate flowers; 
these latter have a longer corolla than in Persian brachyantha, in which the corolla is 
described by Boissier as of a dirty yellow colour. The colour of the Indian ones is 
not recorded. 
ORDER LXXVI. VALERIANIEIE. (By C. D Clarke.) 
Herbs or (a few non-Indian species) shrubs. Leaves opposite, exstipulate, 
but often united at the base by a stipule-like line or rim, entire pinnatifid or 
pinnate. Flowers sessile, cymose, sometimes poly gamous or dicecious, bracteate. 
Calyx-tube adnate to the ovary ` limb obsolete in flower, in fruit often enlarged 
or pappose. Corolla superior; tube equal or gibbous or spurred at the base; 
lobes 8-5, imbricated in bud. Stamens 1-4, on the corolla-tube. Ovary inferior, 
3-celled; cells 1-ovuled, or one l-ovuled, the others barren or imperfect; style 
filiform, stigma 2-3-lobed or undivided; ovules pendulous. Frut indehiscent, 
dry, 1-seeded, the two barren cells enlarged or reduced to filiform ridges. Seed 
eege albumen 0 or scanty; embryo straight, radicle superior. — DISTRIB. 
pecies 300, all cool and temperate regions except Australia and S. Africa. 
Stamen 1, corolla yellow, calyx in fruit very small. . . . . . 1. PATRINIA. 
Stamens 4, corolla red, calyx in fruit equally 6-lobed. . . . . 2. Narposracnys. 
Stamens 3, calyx pappose in fruit . . . Se . 9. VALERIANA. 
Stamens 3, calyx epappose in fruit . . . . . . . . . . . 4 VALERIANELLA, 
l. PATRINIA, Juss. 
Erect, perennial herbs. Leaves entire or 1-2-pinnatifid or pinnate. Cymes 
corymbosely panicled ; bracts narrow, free. — Calya-limb small or 0, not enlarged 
in fruit. Corolla-tube short or long; lobes 5, subequal, spreading, yellow. 
Stamens 1, or 3-5. Ovary 3-celled ; stigma capitate; ovules 1 in each cell, or 
more often 2 cells barren. Fruit small, 3-celled, l-seeded, the barren cells 
equalling the fertile or nearly so.— DisrRiB. Species 12, N. Asiatic and 
Sikkim. 
l. P. monandra, C. B. Clarke; corolla small symmetric shortly funnel- 
shaped, stainen 1, fruit within an orbicular scarious veined bracteole. 
Smxm Hriaraya, alt. 4000 ft.; Simonbong, J. D. H.; Yoksun, Hee, C. B. 
Clarke. 
Stem 2-4 ft., pubescent. Leaves entire or pinnatifid, terminal lobe oblong or 
linear, coarsely crenate-serrate or entire, sparsely pubescent. Panicle often 1j ft. 
long, and broad. Corolla Je in. long. Stigma peltate. Bracteole of the fruit } in. 
diam., as broad or broader than long, beautifully veined.--Hance (Symb. ad Fl. 
Sinic. 5) does not mention the number of stamens in his P. graveolens, which may 
hence be either the Indian plant or the 4-stamened P. ovata, Bunge (Nov. Gen. et Sp. 
Chin. et Monghol. 23, t. 2). 
2. NARDOSTACHYS, DC. 
Erect, perennial herbs. Leaves entire, radical elongate spathulate ; cauline 
few. Flowers capitate, heads in cymes; bracts oblong, free or nearly so. Calyx- 
limb 5-lobed ; in fruit enlarged, membranous, veined. Corolla tubular-campanu- 
late, base subequal; lobes 5, spreading, rosy. Stamens 4. Ovary 3-celled, 
l-ovuled; style linear, stigma capitate. Fruit obovate, compressed, 3-celled, 1- 
seeded, the 2 barren cells smaller than the fertile. Seed obovate, compressed, 
