Y ALERIANA. VALERIANEJE. 443 
readily seen with a microscope in our specimens, although far from maturity. 
This species is not to be found in Wallich’s List; but what was sent to Mr 
Arnott as n. 6213, a, from Nepaul, appears to be quite the same as the Pe- 
ninsular plant. The flowers are white, but by drying become either yellow- 
ish or black according to the care taken in preparing the specimens. 
. 1360. (2) G. Requienianum (W. & A.:) perennial: stems diffuse, ascend- 
ing, branched, and the branches 4-angled, clothed with much soft spreading 
or deflexed hair, when old more glabrous : leaves in fours, roundish-obovate, 
mucronate, 3-nerved ; upper side sprinkled with hairs ; under more copiously 
hairy, particularly on the nerves and margin : peduncles axillary or terminal, 
few-flowered, trichotomous, hairy: divisions of the corolla roundish-ovate, 
slightly hairy on the outside: fruit roundish, hispid with hooked bristles.— 
Wight! cat. n. 1372.——Dindygul hills. 
Very closely allied to G. elegans, Wall. (with which G. latifolium, Don, 
appears to be quite the same), but that species has the under surface of the 
leaves, except on the nerves, less hairy than the upper, the panicles divari- 
cated many-flowered and scarcely hairy, and the divisions of the corolla lan- 
ceolate and acute. 
+1361. (3) G. Indicum (Heyne).—Wall. L. n. 6214. 
ORDER LXXXIL—VALERIANEJE. Juss. 
Calyx with a limb of various kinds, either membranous or resembling 
a pappus. Corolla inserted into the top of the ovarium, tubular, usual- 
ly 5-lobed, rarely 3—4-lobed, lobes obtuse ; tube equal, or gibbous, or 
spurred, at the base. Stamens 1—5, inserted into the tube of the co- 
rolla, and alternate with its lobes: anthers ovate, 2-celled. . Ovarium 
cohering with the tube of the calyx (inferior), 1-3-celled: ovule soli- 
tary, pendulous : style filiform: stigmas 1-3, distinct or combined. 
Fruit dry, indehiscent, crowned with the limb of the calyx, 1-celled, 
or 3-celled (2 cells being then abortive). Seed solitary, pendulous. 
Albumen none. Embryo straight: radicle superior: cotyledons flat. 
—Leaves opposite, exstipulate. 
I. VALERIANA. Linn.; Neck. ; DC. 
.. Calyx-limb involute during flowering, afterwards unrolling and forming a 
deciduous pappus of many plumose bristles. Corolla with the tube obconical 
or cylindrical, equal or gibbous, but without a spur at the base: limb obtusely 
5- (rarely 3-) cleft. Stamens 3. Fruit indehiscent, when ripe 1-celled, 1- 
seeded.— Herbaceous or suffrutescent plants. Leaves various, often different- 
ly shaped in the same specimen. Flowers corymbose, capitate, or panicled, 
usually white, more rarely bluish, rose-coloured, or yellow. i 
1362. (1) V. Brunoniana (W. & A.:) herbaceous, glabrous or very slight- 
ly puberulous: stems erect with 1-2 pair of leaves near the root, and another 
small pair about the middle, slightly hirsute on the knots: leaves somewhat 
fleshy ; lower ones quite entire, ovate, bluntly acuminated, long-petioled, the 
radical ones often emarginate at the base ; uppermost or small pair somewhat 
sessile, narrow-oblong, entire or toothed along the margin : corymb terminal, 
trichotomous, panicled, with a pair of foliaceous bracteas similar to the upper- 
