898 



VALERIANACE^. (VALERIAN FAMILY.) 



Spring — Grassy places 

 and eastward. 



Ilauran to Damascus, Aleppo, and northward. 



***** Fruits of one l-ind, large, top-shaped, grooved in front, the sterile 

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



t Cymes rather dense. 

 V. Dufresnia, Bge. 



Fig. 225. 



Fruit of V. coronata, 

 magnified 8 

 diameters. 



Fig. 226. 



Ca lyx-limb 2 - 3 -parted. 



12. V. Dufresnia, Bge. Glabrous ; stem thick, simple or 

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

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

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

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

 dentate; the posterior somewhat longer — April to 

 June — Palmyrene Desert. 



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

 or globul'ir-injlated, 5-7-lobed. 



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

 below. Lower leaves oblong, upper linear, dentate 

 or pinnatifid at base ; fruit villous, marked with a 

 deep, oblong-linear groove in front ; calyx-limb cup- 

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

 lobes half its length, ending in hooked awns — S{)ring 



— Fields and waste places ; common throughout. 



14. V. Kotscliyi, 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-limb glabrous, nearly rotate, 

 .003 broad, reticulate, loith 6, broad-triarigular, very 

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



— Hauran to Aintab, Lebanon, Nusairy Mountains, 

 Aleppo, and eastward. 



Var. Boisiieri, Post. Calyx-limb between ro- 

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

 straight mucro or — BeLween Bosrah and Qureyah (Hauran). (F. 

 Boissieri, Kroh.). 



15. V. obtu§ilol>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-triangular pit on its anterior 

 and upper face ; calyx-limb .008 broad, rotate, reticulate, glabrous, with 

 6, ovate-triangular, obtuse lobes, each with 3-5, 

 hoolced awns at apex — Spring — Syrian coast and 

 lower maritime slopes of Lebanon. 



16. V. Tesicaria, Willd. © .1 to .5, puber- 

 ulent and ciliatc below. Leaves remotely dentate, 

 the middle often pinnatifid at l)ase. Fruit villous, 

 with a circuliT pit on its anterior face, at base of 

 Wmh, calyx-limb globul/ir, .005 in diameter, injlated, 

 reticulate, puberulent, the mouth circular, furnished 

 with 6, small, triangular, awl-shaped, inflexed teeth, 

 tlieir points nearly meeting in the centre — Spring — 

 Fields and waste places; common throughout. 



"^^y 



Fruit of V. Kotsch- 



yi, magnified 6 



diameters. 



Fig. 227. 



Upper aspect of fruit 

 of V. vesicaria, mag- 

 nified 4 diameters. 



