Veleriana, TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. — 167 - 
somewhat shining above; very pale with fleshy prominent rib ; 
and nerves and slightly reticulated veins below; the lobes at the 
base more or less marked, sotnetimes decurrent or entirely wanting. 
As the stem grows in length they are elevated with it a few inches 
above the ground.and are then perfectly opposite in very approxi- © 
mate pairs.—Stem leaves, two to three or even four very re- 
mote pairs, pinnate- or pinnatifid, the terminal leaflets lanceolate, 
Sinuate-dentate about an inch long, the others in one or two pairs 
linear-lanceolate, very small.— Petiols cylindric, pubescent, with a 
deep channel above, tapering from a broad aud thick base, twice or 
thrice longer than the leaf,—Svems several, erect, striated, fistulous, 
slightly villous, from one to four feet high, as thick as a good goose- 
quill.—Corymb terminal, crowdedat first, but afterwards much length. 
. ened, with opposite slender pubescent peduncles, the lowest one or + 
two pairs of which are generally distant and appear like smaller - 
axillary inflorescences; pedicels three or four times forked, capillary,’ 
' ending into short, few-flowered or crowded racemes.— Bractes linear 
x ‘opposite under each subdivision of the corymb ; lowermost almost as 
-long as the peduncles.— Flowers very small, pale, with scarcely any 
other calyx than an elevated margin at the top of the.ovarium. Corol 
-funnel- shaped with a five-cleft regular border; its tube naked at the 
base, villous within.—Seed compressed, with a series of white hairs 
in the furrows of the ribbed side; in other FOTO like that ot M 
rubra. Gert. Carp. ii. p. 95. t. 86. A 
— Obs. Y have received abundance of Specimens with flowers and 
fruit from the Honourable Mr. Gardner. He also sent me roots of 
this interesting plant, which at present (May 1818), are shooting 
_ forth numerous large fleshy leaves. Its fibrous root acquires on being 
. dried a strong smell like that of the common valerian and appearing- 
. tobe permament. It is used medicinally by the natives of Nepala. 
"The flowers and seeds seem like those of V. Jatamansi, butin | 
: regard to the root and leaves the two puis differ widely. -N.W 
