914 LXXVI. VALERIANEX. (C. B. Clarke.) [Valeriana 
ll. V. Hookeriana, W. $ A. Prodr. 444; sparingly pubescent, radical 
and lower cauline leaves pinnate with numerous leaflets, upper cauline few 
reduced or 0, fruit hairy. Wight Til. t. 129. 
Mrs. of the Deccan, NirangnRy, PurNEv, and Kure, Wight, G. Thomson. 
Rootstock woody, thick, horizontal, fibres thick. Stem 10-30 in , subseapose, nodes 
bearded. Leaves bracteiform except near the base of the stem, where they are pinnate 
with a large ovate toothed terminal lobe. Corymé usually compact in flower, in fruit 
sometimes elongate and laxly panicled.— Very doubtfully distinct from V. Moonii. 
12. V. Leschenaultii, DC. Mem. Valer. 17; sparingly pubescent, 
radical leaves petioled oblong subentire, cauline few or several often sub-lyrate 
with small basal lobes, corymb contracted, fruit hairy. DC. Prodr. iv. 640; 
Wall. Cat. 6636; W. § A. Prodr. 444; Wight Ic. t. 1044. 
Netzcnerry Mrs. and others in Mysonzg and Kona, alt. 4-7000 ft. 
Rootstock short, enveloped by the thick fibres. Stem 8-20 in., nearly glabrous, 
simple, often subscapose, nodes more or less hairy. Radical leaves 2-4 by 1-2 in., 
narrowed or almost: rounded at the base, entire or sinuate-crenate.—The scapose form 
has sometimes hairy fruits, and Wight has been unable in his own herbarium to settle 
what he would call V. Leschenaultii and what V. Brunoniana. 
Van. Brunoniana, W. & A. Prodr. 443 (sp.); cauline leaves small undivided or 
hardly any, fruit glabrous. Wight Ic. t. 1043. V, aquatica, Schldl. in Herb. Hohen- 
acker, n. 1839 (sp.).—Neilgherry Mts., frequent. 
19. V. Beddomei, C. B. Clarke; glabrous, radical leaves pinnate with 
numerous oblong leatlets, cauline smaller with several linear leaflets, corymbs 
contracted, fruit glabrous, V. microphylla, Bedd. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxv. 219, 
not of H. D. K. 
ANAMALLAY Mrs., alt. 7000 ft., Beddome. 
Rootstock (summit alone seen) horizontal, not woody nor thickened. Stem 4-12 
in., erect, simple, nodes hairy. Radical leaves 3 by 2 in.; leaflets 11-25, 4 by 4 in, 
with few irregular obtuse teeth, sublobed or entire; leaflets of cauline 5-13, 4 by Ae in. 
Corymb in young fruit 23 in. long. 
4. VALERIANELLA, Moench. 
Annual herbs, dichotomously branching. Radical leaves rosulate, entire ; 
cauline entire or toothed, rarely pinnatifid. | Cymes corymbosely panicled or sub- 
capitate; bracts free. Calyx-lamb at flower-time small or obsolete; in fruit 
variously enlarged, equal or one-sided, sometimes aristate, never plumose. 
Corolla-tube short, base equal or gibbous, never spurred; lobes 5, spreading, 
white rose or pale blue. Stamens 3. Ovary 3-celled, 1-ovuled ; style minutely 
3-fid or subentire. Fruit ovoid or cylindric, straight or curved, the 2 barren cells 
inflated, as large as the fertile, or small, or reduced to filiform ridges.— DISTRIB. 
Species 47, European, Asiatic, N. American. 
l. V. dentata, Poll. Hist. Pl. Palat. i. 30, not of DC. ; leaves oblong 
entire or sparingly toothed, fruit ovoid subconieal pubescent barren cells reduced 
to filiform ridges, calyx-limb obliquely truncate toothed much shorter than the 
fruit. V. Morisonii, DC. Prodr. iv. 627; Boiss, Fl. Orient. iii. 105; Krok 
Valerianella, 42, t. i. fig. 6. V. microcarpa, Lois. ` Krok. l. c. 36, t. i. fig. 3. 
Kasumrr, Thomson.—Disrrie. of the genus. 
Stem 3-12 in., often much branched from the base, glabrous or minutely pubes- 
vent. Leaves 1-14 by 1-3 in. Flowers white, in small heads; bracts small, narrow- 
lanceolate. Fruit jg in., the two filiform cells forming a rim round an ovate-oblong 
slight depression. 
` 2. V. Szovitziana, Fisch. $ Mey. Ind. Sem. iii. 48 ; leaves oblong-linear 
