Class 3cL 

 TRIANDRIA 



MONOGYNIA. 



VALERIANA, Schreb. Gen. N. 60. 



Calyx none. Corol superiorj one-petalled, gibbous on one side of 

 the base. Seed one. 



1. V. Jatamansi. Sir W. Jones 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 sessile, lanceolate. Seeds crowned with 

 a pappus. 



V. spica. Fahl. En. PI 2. 13. 



2. V. Hardtoickii. Wall. 



Triandrous villous. Kadical leaves numerous, fleshy, ovate-cor- 

 date, acute, unequally sinuated, on long grovedpetiols ; cauline sessile 

 small, opposite, remote, pinnate or laciniate at the base. Corymb 

 terminal gradually elongated ; pedicels dichotomous. Seeds crown- 

 ed with a downy pappus. 



Valeriana. liardzc in Asiat. Res. vi. 350. 



A native of the mountains of Sirinagur and Nepala j where it 

 blossoms in the beginning of the year. 



Newarree Name, Chainmaha Soa. 



Root fleshy, as thick as the little finger, sending out a great num- 

 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, 

 covered on both sides with very shgrt soft hairS; dark green and 



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