Valeriana.] LXXVI. VALERIANEX. (C. B. Clarke.) 213 
8. V. Wallichii, DC. Mem. Valer. 15, t. 4; pubescent, radical leaves 
several long-petioled cordate-ovate, cauline few or much smaller entire or pin- 
nate, fruit hairy or nearly glabrous. DC. Prodr. iv. 640 ; Wall. Pl. As. Rar. 
ii. 40. V. villosa, Wall. Cat. 433, not of Thunb. V. Jatamansi, Jones in 
Asiat. Research. ii. fig. at p. 405; Roxb. in Asiat. Research. iv. 433, Fl. Ind. 163 
(see Royle Ill. 243). V. Spica, Vahl Enum. ii. 13. 
TEMPERATE HIMALAYA; from Kashmir to Bhotan, alt. 10,000 ft. Kuasta Mrs., 
alt. 4-6000 ft.—Disrnxs. Affghanistan. 
Rootstock horizontal. thick, with thick descending fibres. Stem 6-18 in., often 
decumbent below, very rarely divided. Radical /eave; often 1-3 in. diam., deeply 
cordate, usually acute and toothed. Corymd 1-3 in. diam., not very lax even in fruit; 
bracteoles oblong-linear, as long as the fruit.—The typical large form of this, with 
acute toothed radical leaves and pilose fruits, is easily separable from V. pyrolefolia ; 
but there are smaller examples with the radical leaves elliptic entire, the fruits nearly 
glabrous, which are very near V. pyrolefolia. Jones and Roxburgh named this plant 
V. Jatamansi, under the misapprehension (subsequently corrected by Wallich and 
Royle independently) that it produced the Jatamansi spikenard of Nardostachys. The 
name H. Jatamansi is hence to be suppressed. 
9. V. Hardwickii, Wall. in Roxb. Fl. Ind., ed. Carey & Wall. i. 166; 
pubescent below, leaves pinnate, pinnules 1—5 lanceolate acute, radical undivided 
usually disappearing before fruit-time, corymb in fruit lax, fruit hairy. Wail. 
Cat. 432, Pl. As. Rar. 39, t. 263; Don Prodr. 159; DC. Prodr. iv. 640. V, 
Hard wickiana, Roem. & Schult. Syst. i. Mant. 259. V. tenera, Wall. Cat. 435; 
DC. Mem. Valer. 16, Prodr. iv. 640, V. elata, Don Prodr. 159. V. javanica, 
Blume Byd. 919. V. acuminata, Royle Ill. 94]. 
TEMPERATE HIMALAYA ; from Kashmir to Bhotan, alt. 4-12,000 ft. Kuasra Mrs., 
alt. 4-6000 ft.—Disrrin. Java. 
Rootstock hardly thickened, descending, fibrous. Stem 1-5 ft., erect, usually 
simple or eorymbose only upwards, above often glabrous, nodes little pilose or some- 
times densely white-barbate (V. acuminata, Royle). Radical leaves long-petioled, 
ovate, acute; lower rarely undivided (V. tenera, Wall.); cauline several, leaflets often 
3, rirely more than 5, upper small. Corymb in fruit often 1 foot, repeatedly dichoto- 
mous, ultimate branchlets very short; upper bracteoles much shorter than the 
fruit. 
Van. Hoffmeistert, Klotzsch in Reis. Pr. Waldem. Bot. 84 (sp.); stem strict slen- 
derer nearly glabrous, leaves smaller, fruits glabrous or nearly so. Valeriana, sp. 10, 
Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. § T.—Himalaya, alt. 10-12,000 ft.—Identified with V. Hof- 
meisteri from Klotzsch's description only; it is not rare at high levels. 
Var. Arnottiana, Wight Ie. t. 1045-6 (sp.); large, middle cauline leaves often 
large with 7—9 large lanceolate pubescent leaflets, corymbs often large dense with ulti- 
mate branchlets 1-2 in. long.—Neilgherry Mts., alt. 6-8000 ft., Wight. 
10. V. Moonii, Arn. in Herb. Hook.; sparingly pubescent, large, radical 
and lower cauline leaves pinnate with many leaflets, middle cauline pinnate with 
3-5 leaflets, fruits glabrous. "V. villosa, Moon Cat. 5, not of Thunb, V. Hard- 
wiekii, Thwaites Enum. 159. 
CEYLON, alt. 6000 ft.; frequent. 
Rootstock long, horizontal, not woody nor thickened, fibrous at the distant nodes. 
Stem often 4 ft., nearly glabrous, Leaves gradually reduced in size and number of 
leaflets from the base upwards. ` Corymb close in flower, not exceeding 6 in. Fruit 
larger and wider than in V. Hardwickii, with the dorsal nerves wider apart, perfectly 
glabrous.— Th waites has sent this plant as V. Hookeriana (C.P. 150), and as V. Arnot- 
tiana (C.P. 1729): these are exactly alike, and there is no other Ceylon form; which 
(as noted by Sir J. D. H. in Thwaites Enum.) may be a var. of V. Hardwickii with 
glabrous fruit. It dries very black. 
