VALERIANEZ. 67 
Order LXXII. VALERIANE. 
Valerianee, Benth. et Hook. Gen. Plant. 11. p. 151. 
Annual or perennial herbs, or rarely shrubby. There are nine genera, embracing 
about 300 species, the greater part of which inhabit the temperate and cold regions of 
the northern hemisphere and the Andes of South America. A few occur in Brazil, 
Guiana, and the West Indies; only one, and that probably introduced, in South Africa ; 
in Tropical Asia they are exceedingly rare; and none are known from Australasia. 
1. PHYLLACTIS. 
Phyllactis, Pers. Syn. Pl. i. p. 89; Benth. et Hook. Gen. Plant. ii. p. 153. 
About thirty species of herbs or dwarf shrubs inhabiting America, chiefly the Andes, 
from Mexico to Chili, one species occurring in South Brazil. 
1. Phyllactis mexicana, Benth. et Hook. Gen. Plant. ii. p. 153. 
Astrephia mexicana, Hook. et Arn. Bot. Beech. Voy. p. 431. 
Soutn Mexico, Tepic (Barclay). Hb. Kew. 
2. Phyllactis pratensis, Benth. et Hook. Gen. Plant. ii. p. 153. 
Astrephia pratensis, Benth. Pl. Hartw. p. 39. 
Valeriana galeottiana, Mart. in Bull. Acad. Brux. xi. 1, p. 124? 
Soura Mxxico, Morelia (Hartweg), at 7000 feet (Galeotti, 2547). Hb. Kew. 
2. VALERIANA. 
Valeriana, Linn. Gen. n. 44 pro parte; Benth. et Hook. Gen. Plant. i. p. 154. 
This genus has nearly the same geographical range as the order. One species is 
widely dispersed in Europe and Asia, and also occurs in South Africa, where, however, 
it was probably introduced. 
1. Valeriana affinis, Mart. et Gal. in Bull. Acad. Brux. xi. 1, p. 123. 
Sour Mexico, oak-forests of the Cerro de San Felipe, near Oaxaca, at 8000 to 
9000 feet, and Juquila, Western Cordillera of Oaxaca, at 5000 to 6000 feet (Galeotts, 
2555). Hb. Kew. . 
Galeotti’s n. 2555 is referred to V. tolucana in Kew herbarium. 
2. Valeriana barbareefolia, Mart. et Gal. in Bull. Acad. Brux. xi. 1, p. 121. 
South Mexico, Real del Monte and Moran, at 7500 to 8500 feet (Galeotti, 2549, 
2553). 
3 Valeriana candolleana, Gardn. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. iv. p. 112; 
Polak. in Linnea, xli. p. 574. 
Costa Rica, Naranjo (Polakowsky).—BRazIL. 
k2 
