^ Class 8d. 
TRIANDRIA | 
MONOGYNIA. 
VALERIANA. Schreb. Gen. N. 60. 
-Calyx none. Corol superior, one-petilled, gibbous on one side of — 
the base. Seed one. 
SS FORES Sir W. Jones i in Asiat. Res. vol. ii. p. 405, and. 
vol. iv. p. 109. Roxb. ibid. 433. > 
_ Flowers triandrous. Leaves entire, four-fold, the inner radical pair 
petioled, and cordate; cauline eeainsleneoeleie. Seeds crowned with — 
a pappus. 
V. spica. Vahl. En. Pl. 9. 13. 
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.. Triandrous villous. Radical leaves numerous, fleshy, ovate-cor- — 
date, acute, unequally sinuated, on long groved petiols ; cauline sessile — 
small, opposite, remote, pinnate or laciniate at the base. Cor ynb : i 
terminal gradually elongated ; pedicels dichotomous, Seeds crown- 
ed with a downy pappus. 
Valeriana, Hardy. in Asiat. Res. vi. 350. : B 
A native of the mountains of Sirinagur ánd Nepala ; where: p 
: blossoms i in the beginning of the year. 2 4e 
 Newarree Name, Chammaha Soa. mua o A 
Root fleshy, as thick as the little finger, ceni outa ut. num- i: 
ber of pale, cylindric, slightly pubescent fibres.—Leaves numerous, — 
spreading in all direction, from one to three inches long, with slight- | 
ly waved and unequally repand, sometimes deeply gashed, margins, — 
Sed on both sides with very mate soft hairs, pes and .— 
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