confined to the woodland tracts of Central and Northern 
Japan; his specimens formed the basis of Valeriana triloba, 
Miq. It was again met with by Maximowicz, whose speci- 
mens were distributed as Patrinia palmatijida, a name 
modified in 1867, when the species was formally published, 
to P. palmata. The study of the specimens issued by 
Maximowicz had meantime satisfied Miquel that the plants 
collected by Siebold and by Maximowicz are conspecific 
and that the generic position accorded to the species by 
Maximowicz is correct. The adjustment of name thereby 
rendered necessary was made by Miquel in 1870 and 
endorsed by Maximowiez a year later. P. triloba is a 
hardy herbaceous perennial, easily cultivated under the 
conditions suitable for most of the species of Patrinia and 
Valeriana. It thrives well in the Rock Garden at Kew, 
where it is in flower in July and August, the months 
during which it also flowers in a wild state. 
Descriprion.— Herb, perennial; stems erect, terete, 
reddish, 8-16 in. high, unbranched below the inflorescence, 
with lines of pubescence on the peduncles and with pubescent 
nodes. Leaves petioled, the radical cordate, those of the stem 
ovate-cordate, deeply palmately 3- or 5-lobed, and usually 
d-nerved from the base, the largest 3 in. long, 2 in. wide; 
basal lobes rather smaller than the rhomboid more or less 
3-lobed central; main and secondary nerves beneath rather 
prominent; margin rather coarsely toothed except towards 
the tips of the lobes ; sparingly hairy above, more markedly 
pubescent on the margins and along the nerves beneath; 
petioles slender 34 in. long, stem-clasping at the base. 
Cymes 3-nate ; lower bracts leafy, ovate-lanceolate, 3-lobed, 
coarsely toothed, about 8 lin. long, 4 lin. wide, upper linear, 
ciliate, toothed or entire, 5 lin. long. Calyz-teeth minute. 
Corolla yellow, tubular, 34 lin. long, with a spur about | lin. 
ong; tube as long as the spur, glabrous without, hirsute 
with rather long hairs within. Stamens exserted ; filaments 
nearly 24 lin. long, sparingly hirsute with spreading hairs. 
oy glabrous, about 1 lin, lone; style glabrous, 24 lin. 
Ong; stigma capitate. Fruit adnate toa large, veined pale. 
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