219 LXXVI. VALERIANEE. (C. B. Clarke.) [ Valeriana. 
V. officinalis has lanceolate and ovate-lanceolate leaflets, often much toothed or 
serrate, 
3. V. Jaeschkeil, C. D. Clarke; small, glabrous, radical leaves pinnate, 
pinnules many obtuse, cauline few pinnules linear, fruit hairy. 
Western Haten, Lahul, Jaeschke. 
Rootstock short, thickened, emitting thick horizontal fibres. Stem 6-9 in., erect, 
simple, nodes minutely pilose. Radical /eaves numerous at flowering time, segments 
5-9, 1 in. long, ovate to oblong; cauline 1 or 2 distant pairs, segments 1—1 by 4-75 
in. Corymbs l in. diam.; flowers small; upper bracts } in., narrow oblong.— Re- 
sembles generally V. oligantha, Boiss. (Fl. Orient. iii, 87), of which it might be the 
fully developed form; but that the fruit is pilose and the root is not long nor 
branching. 
4. V. elegans, C. B. Clarke; puberulous, leaves all entire spathulate 
ovate or oblong obtuse, fruit hairy. 
BarrisrHAN ; Skardo, alt. 9000 ft., C. B. Clarke, 
Rootstock woody, thick, branching, with thick horizontal fibres. Stem 6-9 in., 
erect, frequently branched from near the base, glabrous upwards, Radical leaves 
several at fruit-time, ovate; cauline several, similar, oblong. Panicle lax, in fruit 
dichotomously dividing into linear subsimple spikes; upper bracts oblong, small, 
hardly half the length of the fruit. Flowers small, bright pink (pappus red in dried 
specimens). 
5. V. Roylei, Klotzsch in Reis. Pr. Waldem. Bot. 83,1. 85 ; stem glabrous, 
leaves all undivided petioled orbicular or cordate-ovate uppermost pair sessile, 
fruit glabrous. 
WESTERN HIMALAYA, Hoffmeister. 
Root tuberous. Stem 8 in., erect, simple. Leaves 4-} in., at first puberulous, en- 
tire, or the lowest obscurely toothed ; radical several at flower-time; cauline several 
pairs, all but the uppermost petioled. Corymb 1-2 in. diam.; upper bracts oblong- 
linear, as long as the fruit.—Not seen, the foregoing drawn up from Klotzsch's figure 
and description. The plant seems very near V. pyrolefolia, which, however, has a 
different root. 
6. V. pyrolefolia, Dene in Jacquem. Voy. Bot. 85, t. 93; sparingly 
pubescent, leaves all subentire, radical petioled orbicular or elliptic obtuse, cauline 
sessile ovate, fruit glabrous. V. bracteata, Royle Ill. 241, without description, 
Jide T. Thoms. ms. Valeriana, sp. No. 12 and 13, Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. $ T. 
TEMPERATE HIMALAYA; from Kashmir to Kumaon, alt. 914,000 ft., Jacquemont, 
ES 
Rootstock thick, branching, subhorizontal, with thick fibres. Stem 2-10 in., erect, 
simple, succulent, often pubescent, at least when young. Radical leaves often 1 in. 
diam., several at fruit-time; cauline A in., all pubescent when young, subsucculent, 
nerved when mature. Corymb 1-2 in. diam., much more lax in fruit; upper bracts 
è in., linear-oblong, equalling the fruit.—Can this be a form of V. Wallichii? 
7. V. Stracheyi, C. B. Clarke; slender, pubescent, leaves lyrate-pinnate 
terminal lobe rhomboid, corymb lax dichotomously branching into straight 
slender spikes, fruit very pilose. Valeriana, sp 6, Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. & T. 
TEMPERATE HIMALAYA ; from Kashmir to Kumaon, alt. 4-8000 ft., Thomson, 
Strachey § Winterbottom, &c. 
Rootstock woody, very stout. Stems 6-12 in., erect, often branching from near the 
base, uniformly minutely pubescent. Radical deaves at flower-time 0; cauline leaves 
several, minutely pubescent, terminal lobe toothed or nearly entire. Corym slender, 
lax in fruit; ultimate branchlets 1-2 in., simple, with distant minute lanceolate brac- 
teoles which are much shorter than the fruit. 
