286 VALERIANACE. | KBLLOGGIA. 
branches not rarely opposite: corolla dull purple; fruit white, smooth 
juicy, drying black. Dry grounds, southern Oregon and western Cali- 
ornia. ‘ 
G. Andrewsii Gray Proc, Amer. Acad vi, 588. Depressed: cespitose, 
and with slender creeping rootstocks: glabrous or nearly so: the matted 
tufts 3-10 inches high: leaves very crowded, acerose-subulate, usually 
shining, naked or sparsely spinulose-ciliate, 2-6 lines 1] ng: flowers dice- 
cious, staminate slender-pedicelled, in few-flowered terminal cymes; pis- 
tillate solitary, subtended by a whorl of leaves that are longer than the at 
length deflexed peduncle: fruit dark-colored, smooth. Dry hills, south- 
ern Oregon and California 
2 KELLOGGIA Torr. Bot. Wilkes 332, t. 6. 
Herbs with opposite leaves and loosely cymose-panicled, small 
flowers. Flowers commonly 4-merous; calyx-tube obovyoid,: 
somewhat flattened laterally ; teeth 4, subulate persistent. Co- 
rolla funnelform, the lobes naked, valvate in bud. Stamens as 
many as lobes of the corolla, and inserted on its tube, more or 
less exserted : filaments flattened ; anthers oblong-linear, atta¢hed 
above the base. Styles filiform, exserted: stigmas 2. Ovary 2- 
celled, ovules erect from the base, anatropous. Fruit dry*and 
coriaceous, separating at maturity into 2 closed carpels which 
are conformed an.| adherent to the seed, somewhat reniform in 
cross section. Embryo comparatively large in fleshy albumen 
K. galioides Torr. Bot. Wilkes 332 t 6. Glabrous or minutely pubes- 
cent; stems slender, 4-12 inches high: leaves lanceolate, sessile, 1-2 
inches long, the stipules small and scarious: flowers small, in a loose 
dichotomous cyme, the long pedicels thickened above and articulated with 
the flower; corolla funnelform, white or pinkish, 3-5 lines long, pubesvent 
on the outside: fruit small, oblong, coriaceous, uncinate-hispid. In shady 
places, Washington to California. 
OrpDER XLIX. VALERIANACEAZAE® Batsck Tab. Affin. 227. 
Herbs, rarely shrubby, with opposite, simple or divided 
leaves without stipules and usually small flowers in dichoto- 
mous cymes that are often glomerate when young, frequently — 
corymbose or paniculate. Tube of the calyx adherent to the 
ovary: the limb various, sometimes forming a plumous pappus, 
occasionally obsolete. Corolla tubular funnelform or obcon- 
ical, often gibbose anteriorly or spurred, the limb mostly 5- 
lobed and more or less irregular, imbricate in bud. Stamens 
distinct, inserted inte the corolla; anthers introrse. Ovary 
mostly 3-celled, 2 of the cells empty, the other containing a 
single suspended oyule: style filiform stigmas 2-3, or united 
into one. . Fruit. membranaceous or coriaceous, indehiscent; 
l1-celled or frequently 3 celled with 2 of the cells empty, some- 
times 2-celled by the confluence of the empty cells, 1-seeded. 
Seeds anatropous with a membranaceous testa and no albumen. 
* Limb of the calyx inrolled and concealed in flower, evolute and 
pappus-like in fruit. ius 
