928 Valerianaceae. 
obsolete. Corolla funnel-shaped, slender, usually with a short tube 
and a slight gibbosity at the base; limb subequal, 5-lobed. Stamens 3, 
inserted about the middle of the corolla-tube. Stigma 3-fid. — 
Annuals, dichotomously divided. Leaves entire or the upper ones 
often toothed or incise-pinnatifid. Flowers sessile, solitary, at the 
apex of the branches crowded in subfastigiate or subglobose brac- 
teate cymes. 
A genus of several species, chiefly occurring in cultivated ground, with 
a wide distribution especially over the temperate regions of the northern 
hemisphere. 
A. Fruits all of one kind, oblong-cylindrical, or ovate- 
oblong; sterile cells much broader than the fer- 
(DUE A Bale ea 1g oMolOesd yO OB yo caed 1. V. Szovitsiana. 
B. Fruits of one kind, large, top-shaped, grooved in 
front, the sterile cells about as broadasthefertile one 2. V. Petrovichii. 
1291. (1.) Valerianella Szovitsiana Fish. and Mey. Ind. Hort. 
Petrop. III (1823), p.48. — Boiss. Flor. Or. III, p. 101. — Aschers.- 
Schweinf. ll. Flor. d’Eg., p.83 no. 503. — Sickenberg. Contrib. Flor. 
d’Ke., p. 242. — Ic. Koch, tab. XI fig. 17. — Valerianella Aucheri 
Boiss. Diagnos. Plant. Or., Ser. I fase. III, p. 58. — An annual plant. 
30—40 cm high, or sometimes somewhat more.  Hispidulous or 
glabrescent. Leaves oblong-linear. Flowers of forks solitary; cymes 
short, onesided; fruits glabrous or hispidulous, white, marked in front 
by an oblong-ovate pit; calyx-limb oblique, short, tubular-auricled, 
reticulate, with a lateral, linear, horizontal, somewhat recurved lobe, 
entire or denticulate at the tip, as long as the fruit, and a very 
small accessory lobe. — Flow. March to April. 
D. a. sept. Galala. 
Also known from Arabia Petraea and Palestine. 
1292. (2.) Valerianella Petrovichii Aschers. in Rohlfs Kufra 
(1881), p. 526. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Primit. Flor. Marmaric., p. 652. 
— Prodrom. Flor. Libye., p.119 tab. VII. — Fedia coronata Viv. 
Flor. Libye., p.2 not of Vahl. — Valerianella coronate Coss. Bull. 
Soc. Bot. Franc. XII (1865), p. 278 not of DC. — Valerianella 
discoidea Coss. Bull. Soc. Bot. Frane. XII (1865), p.48 not of Loisl. 
— An annual plant, 10—30 cm high, or sometimes somewhat more, 
pubescent below. Lower leaves oblong, upper ones linear, dentate 
or pinnatifid at the base; fruit villous, marked with a deep, oblong- 
linear groove in front; calyx-limb cupshaped, 3 mm broad, reticulate, 
with 6, ovate, acute lobes half its length, ending in hooked awns. 
— Flow. March to April. 
M. ma. Matruqa. 
Also known from Spain. 
