898 



VALERIAN ACE JE. (VALERIAN FAMILY.) 



Spring — Grassy places 

 and eastward. 



Hauran to Damascus, Aleppo, and northward, 



Fruit of V. coronata, 

 magnified 8 

 diameters. 



Fig. 236. 



***•♦=* Fruits of one Mnd, large, top-shaped, grooved in front, the sterile 

 cells about as hroad as or broader than the fertile. Calyx-limb crown-like. 



t Cymes rather dense. Calyx-limb ^-"^ parted. 



12. V. I>ufresnia, Bge. Glabrous ; stem thick, simple or 

 branching from neck. Leaves oblong-linear, obtuse, entire. Cymes 

 dense ; fruiting branches scarcely thickened ; fruits white-woolly with 

 a triangular pit, and two, prominent gibbosities under the crown in 

 front ; calyx-limb d-hbed to base, lobes round, pellucid, reticulate, acutely 

 dentate; the posterior somewhat longer — April to 



June — Palmyrene Desert. Fig. 225. 



1 1 Cymes capitate. Calyx-limb cup-shaped, or rotate^ 

 or globulvr-injiated, 5-7 -lobed. 



13. V. coronata, W. .1 to. 5, pubescent 

 below, liower leaves oblong, upper linear, dentate 

 or pinnatifid at base ; fruit villous, marked with a 

 deep, oblong-linear groove in front ; calyx-limb ci*;?- 

 shaped, .003 broad, reticulate, with 6, ovate, acute 

 lobes half its length, ending in hooked aions — Spring 



— Fields and waste places : common throughout. 



14. V. M.ot§cliyi, Boiss. .1 to .3, glabrous, 

 much branched from base. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, 

 remotely denticulate, the upper pinnatifid at base. 

 Fruit woolly, somewhat keeled behind, and deeply 

 grooved in front ; calyx-limi) glabrous, nearly rotate, 

 .003 broad, reticulate, icith 6, broad-triangular, very 

 short lobes, ending in a short, hooked mucro — Spring 



— Hauran to Aiutab, Lebanon, Kusairy Mountains, 

 Aleppo, and eastward. 



Var. Bois§icri, Post. Calyx-limb between ro- 

 tate and cup-shaped ; teeth 4-6, with a very short, 

 gtraight mucro or — Between Bosrah and Qureyah 

 Boissieri, Krok.). 



15. V. obtii§llo!)a, Boiss. .2 to .3, puberulent below.. 

 Lower leaves spathulate, entire or dentate, upper linear, entire or pin- 

 natifid at base. Fruit villous, with an ob-triangalar pit on its anterior 

 and upper face ; calyx-Umh .OOSbroad, rotate, reticulate, glabrous, with 

 6, ovate-triangular, obtuse lobes, ea,ch with 3-5, 



hooked awns at apex — Spring — Syrian coast and Fig. 227. 



lower maritime slopes of Lebanon. 



16. V. ve§icaraa, Willd. .1 to .5, puber- 

 ulent and ciliate below. Leaves remotely dentate, 

 the middle often pinnatifid at base. Fruit villous, 

 with a circuh r pit on its anterior face, at base of 

 l\mh, calyx-limb globular. .0(to in diameter, inflated, 

 reticulate, puberulent, ^Ae m^JMi^A circular, furnished 

 with Q, small, triangular, awl-shaped, infexed teeth, 

 their points nearly meeting in the centre — Sin-ino- — 

 Fields and waste places; common throuo-hout. 



Fruit of V, Kotsch- 



yi, magnified 6 



diameters,, 



(Hauran). , {V. 



Upper aspect ,of fruit 

 of V. vesicjiria, mag- 

 nified 4 diameters. 



