G4. VALERIANE7E. 103 



DISTEBJ. Japan arid China. 



Galium rotundifolium LEW. ; DC. Prodr. IV. p. 599 ; HOOK f. Fl. 

 Brit, Ind. III. p. 204 ; HAYATA Mater. Fl. Formos. p. 148. 



HAB. Randaizan ; Mt. Morrison, Mt. Arizan. 



DISTRIB. Europe, India, North Africa, Western Asia. 



OBSERV. Perennial, procumbent. Stem angular in section, hispidu- 

 lous (hairs retrorse.), internodes 3 cm. long. Leaves 4-verticillate, sessile, ob- 

 long or ovate, 13 mm. long, 6 mm. broad, shortly acute at the apex, suddenly 

 attenuate at the base, tri-nerved, margin nearly entire and ciliate, hairy on 

 the nerves of both surfaces, (hairs longer |- mm. long, divaricate and retrorse), 

 face hairy hairs shorter and fewer. Cymes axillary, paniculate, ternate, 

 branches divaricate. Flowers 5-verticillate at the apex of the branches of 

 cymes, pedicels alxut 1 mm. long. Calyx-tube glabrous, about i mm. in dia- 

 meter, densely covered with falcate hairs. Corolla rotate, 4-lobed, l mm. 

 in diameter, lobes ovate, | mm. long, obtuse at the apex.. Stamens 4, 

 style -| mm. long, deeply '2-fid, stigma capitellate. Fruits didymous broadly 

 obcordate, 1 mm. long, 1^ mm. broad, densely covered with straight divari- 

 cate falcate hairs. 



64. Valerianeae. 



Conspectus of the Foi-mosan Genera. 



Corolla shortly 5-lobed, stamens 4 perfect, bracts nan-owed, free, brac- 

 teoles large adpressed to fruits, append iculate, collora white or 

 yellow Patrinia. 1 



Corolla 4-5-fid, nearly equal. Stamens 4, perfect, bracteoles 4, flowers light 

 pink Tripfosteyia. 2 



I. Patrinia Juss. 



Key to the Formosan Species. 



Leaves ovate dentate villose, flowers white P. viU<w. 



Leaves pinnatifid glabrous, flowers yellow P. scdbioscefolia. 



