2o. VALERIANACE.E. 



75 



irregular, Avith 5 spreading 

 lobes and a long cylindrical 

 tube, spur longer than ovary ; 

 style filiform ; fruit small, dry, 

 1-celled, 1-seeded. 



Glen Osmond ■ Road. — Oct.- 

 Apl. — Mediterranean region. 



2. Fedia, Gsertn. 



1. Fedia Cornucopise, 



Gfertn. African Valerian. Glab- 

 rous annual, with thick hollow 

 stems branching , dichotomously ; 

 lower leaves oboval, almost en- 

 tire, upper ones oval, coarsely 

 toothed at the base ; flowers 

 purplish-pink, sessile in dense 

 heads on 2 stout terminal ped- 

 uncles ; calyx-limb erect, with 2-4 

 unequal teeth ; corolla with a long 

 narrow tube swollen at base, and 

 5 unequal • lobes arranged in 2 





Centranthus ruber. 



Fedia Cornucopise. 



lips; fruit with 3 cells but 1 

 seed, in 2 different forms, the 

 lower ones growing between the 

 peduncles, oblong and crowned by 

 the calyx-teeth, the upper fruits 

 ovoid-compressed, with a very 

 short crown. 



Waterfall Gully.— Sept. -Nov.— 

 ^Mediterranean region. 



3. Valerianella, Haller. 



(Diminutive of Valeriana, 

 another genus of this 

 family.) 



Calyx-limb erect, with 1 or more 

 teeth; corolla with 5 almost equal 

 lobes ; stamens 3 ; style 1 with 3 

 stigmas; fruit 3-celled, but 2 of 

 the cells are sterile ; flowers very 

 small. 



Fruits in compact ilatteiied heads. 

 Calyx-limb obliquely truncate, 1-toothed ... V. iruncata 1 

 Calyx-limb crownshaped, with 5-6 teeth ... V. uiocarpa 2 



Fruits in compact globular heads; calyx-limb 



regularly toothed 



V. disco idea 3 



