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VALERIANACE^. (VALERIAN FAMILY.) 



2. V. dactylophylla, Boiss. et Hoh. 

 © .1 to .3, glabrescent or scabrous at nodes and 

 margins of leaves. Lower leaves oblong, nearly 

 entire, the others digitate, with linear lobes, the 

 terminal lobe broader and much longer. Fruit- 

 ing branches scarcely thickened ; cymes capitate ; 

 fruits pruinose, with a narrow groove in front, 

 and two convergent gibbi at dilated base ; calyx- 

 limb campanulate — Spring — Subalpine Lebanon 

 and Antilebanon. 



X XX Calyx-limloUique, reticulate, unequally parted 



into 2, siibulate lobes. 



Fig. 221. 



Fruits of V. dactylophyl- 

 la, magnified" ten 

 diameters 



Fruit of V. diodon,mat 

 nified ten diameters. 



3. V. diodoii, Boiss. © .15 to .3, puber- 

 ulent or pruinose, intricately branched, corymbose. 

 Leaves glabrous, oblong to linear, Fruiting 

 branches not thickened ; fruits solitary in forks 

 and at tips of branches, cylindrical, pruinose, 

 grooved in front, the prominent borders of the 

 groove prolonged beloio into divergent crests, which 

 unite at base, and surround a circular area ; one 

 of the lobes of the calyx-limb sometimes wanting 



— Spring — Fields ; Hauran to base of Antileba- 

 non, Damascus, Alei3po, and northward. 



1 1 Sterile cells much broader than fertV e. 



4. V. l§zovit§iaiia, F. et M. © Hispidulous or glabrescent. 

 Leaves oblong-linear. Flowers of forks solitary ; cymes short, one- 

 sided ; fruits glabrous or hispidulous, white, niarked in front by an 

 oblong-ovate pit ; calyx-limb oblique, short, tubular-auricled, reticu- 

 late, with a lateral, linear, horizontal, somewhat recurved lobe, entire or 

 denticulate at tip, as long as fruit, and a very small accessory lobe — 

 Spring — Fields ; et Tih to Coelesyria, Aleppo, and northward, and 

 eastward. 



* * Fruits of two Mnds, those offorTcs 1-cdIed, cylindrical-prismatic, those 

 of cymes ovate or oblong, spongy, deeply grooved ; cijmes small, jiat, 

 fruiting branches dilated, club-shaped. 



5. V. echinata. L. © .1 to .3, glabrous. 

 Lower leaves oblong-spathulate, entire or dentate, the 

 others oblong, sessile, sinuate-dentate or incised-pin- 

 natifid at base. Fruit fungous, remaining attached to 

 cyme, oblong, unequally S-grooved and 3-ribbed, the 

 fertile cell often gibbous, crested ; calyx-limb unequal- 

 ly 3-toothed, the pjosterior tooth the smallest, one of the 

 lateral at the tip of the fertile cell small, the other much p^.^^ ^^ 

 longer and thicTcer, all hooTced ; one of the sterile cells v, eciunata mag- 

 fosterior, filiform, the other about as h^oad as the fertile "'^^f* ^ diameters. 



— Spring — Fields ; Galilee, Lebanon, Antilebanon, and northward. 



6. V. Soyeri, Buch^ © .1, glabrous. Lo-w;er leaves oblong- 

 spathulate, the others sessile, incised at base. Fruits not fungou's. 

 separating from cyme, ovate-oblong, somewhat incurved, irregularly 



Fig. 223. 



