CLASS III.— TRIANDEIA. 



Order 1. — Monogynia. 

 f Flowers superior, complete, 



29. VALERIANA. L. {Valerian.} 



Culix 0, or minutely marginal, at length 

 evolved in a plumose pappus. Corolla mono- 

 petalous, tubular, somewhat funnel-form, cal- 

 carate or gibbous at the base, limb 5-cleft. 

 Seed 1. usually crowned w^th the calycine pap- 

 pus. (Stamens exserted 1, 2, 3, and 4.) 



Flowers for the most part in terminal corymbs orpani* 

 ^les. 

 Species. ^. V. paucifiora.^ 



30. FEDIA. Gcertner. 



Calix 3 or 4 toothed. Corolla tubular, 5- 

 cleft. Capsule crowned with the peristent ca- 



f Radical leaves entire, cordate crenate, petiolate; stem- 

 leaves pinnate, somewhat toothed; uppermost leaves trifoliate, 

 oval, acute; panicle scattered; corymbuli few-flowered. 



Obs. Stem 3 feet or more hi.i^h, smooth, sulcate, simple and 

 fistulous. Leaves smooth; foliola of the pinnate leaves 5 — 7, 

 gradually enlarging-, oval, acuminate; flowers rather long-, 

 (near an inch,) pale pink, triandrous, with a short spur or gib- 

 bosity near the base; bibracteate, border 5-parted, lamina oval, 

 cbtuse, stamens exserted; seed elliptic, flat, on either side 

 marked vviih 3 longitudinal striae near the centre; at lenaj'th 

 comose. This species appears to be nearly allied to V. Phu^ 

 but distinct; in V Phu the radical leaves are oblong, and ge- 

 nerally entire, the stem-leaves pinnatifid, the pinnula lanceo- 

 late, and very entire; the laminae of the corolla also are crenu= 

 late; and the stigmata 3. (There are many species of this gc- 

 »U5 io SQuth America.) 



