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PATRINIA TRILOBA. 
Japan. 
: VALERIANACEAE. 
PATRINIA, Juss. ; Benth. et Hook. J. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 158. 
ia 
Patrinia (Centrotrinia) triloba, Mig. in Verh, Kon. Akad, Wetensch. yol. ii. 
pars iv. p. 22; Maxim. Mé. Biol. vol. viii. p. 420; affinis P. gibbosac, 
Maxim., sed corolla paulo majore, caule basi haud nudo, foliis ambitu 
cordatis vel cordato-ovatis profunde lobatis distincta. 
Herba perennis, erecta, inflorescentia excepta simplex 20-40 cm. alta. Caulis 
teres, rubescens, cum pedunculis bifacialiter pubescens, nodis pubescenti- 
bus. Folia petiolata, petiolis ad 9 em: longis caulem amplectentibus, 
radicalia ambitu cordata, superiora cordato-ovata ad 7 em. longa, 5 em, 
lata, profunde palmatim tri- vel quinque-lobata, lobis basalibus minoribus, 
terminali majore rhombeo plus minusve trilobo, nervis e basi plerumque 5, 
nervulisque subtus conspicuis, acumine excepto grosse serrata, supra parce 
subtus in nervis marginibusque puberula. Cymae ternae; bracteae infimae 
_ foliaceae ambitu ovato-lanceolatae, trilobae, circiter 1-5 cm. longae, 8 mm. 
" latae, grosse serratae, summae lineares, ciliatae, serratae integraeve ad 
1 em. longae, 1 mm. latae. Culycis lobi minuti. Corolla lutea, tubulosa, 
7 mm. longa, calcarata, calcari 2 mm. longo et circiter 1 mm. diametro, 
tubo calcari aequilongo, extra glabro intus pilis longiusculis obsito, 
Stamina exserta; filamenta fere 5 mm. longa, pilis divergentibus parce 
instructa. Ovarium circiter 2 mm. altum, glabrum; stylus 5 mm. longus, 
glaber, stigmate capitato. Fructus paleae nervosae fere triplo majori 
adnatus.—P. palmata, Maxim. Mél. Biol. vol. vi. p. 267; Bull. Acad. Imp. 
Petersb. vol. xii. p. 67; Franch. et Savat. Enum. Pl. Jap. vol. i. p. 216. 
P. palmatifida, Maxim. ex Miq. in Verh. Kon. Akad. Wetensch. vol. ii. 
pars iv. p..22. Valeriana triloba, Miq. in Prol. Fl. Jap. p. 272.— 
 W. G. Crar. 
. The plant here figured, which was raised at Kew from 
seed received from the Tokyo Botanic Garden, quite merits 
the encomium “ decus generis,” bestowed upon it by the late 
Mr. Maximowicz when he for the first time published it 
under its proper genus. Its nearest ally is Patrinia gibbosa, 
Maxim., like the subject of our illustration a native of Japan ; 
both are members of the section Centrotrinia, founded by 
Maximowicz to include those species in which the corolla is 
gibbous or spurred and the fruit is adnate to an accrescent 
bract. P. triloba is, however, readily distinguished from 
P. gibbosa by its larger flowers, its rather smaller, sharply 
lobed and cordate leaves and its leafy stem. Siebold was 
the first European botanist to meet with P. triloba, which is 
Avaeust, 1910. 
