210 LXXVI. VALERIANEJE. (C. B. Clarke.) 



WESTERN HIMALAYA; Kashmir, alt. 7-12,000 ft., Falconer, C. B. Clarke; Kuna- 

 wur, Royle, Thomson, &c. DISTRIB. Persia. 



Very similar to A. cynanchica, and scarcely distinguishable except by the shorter 

 always opposite leaves, shorter blunter bracts, and tomentose more capitate flowers ; 

 these latter have a longer corolla than in Persian brachyantha, in which the corolla IB 

 described by Boissier as of a dirty yellow colour. The colour of the Indian ones is 

 not recorded. 



ORDER LXXVI. VALERIANEJE. (By C. B. Clarke.) 



Herbs or (a few non-Indian species) shrubs. Leaves opposite, exstipulate, 

 but often united at the base by a stipule-like line or rim, entire pinnatifid or 

 pinnate. Flowers sessile, cymose, sometimes polygamous or dioecious, bracteate. 

 Calyx-tube adnate to the ovary ; limb obsolete in flower, in fruit often enlarged 

 or pappose. Corolla superior ; tube equal or gibbous or spurred at the base ; 

 lobes 3-5, imbricated in bud. Stamens 1-4, on the corolla-tube. Ovary inferior, 

 3-celled ; cells 1-ovuled, or one 1-ovuled, the others barren or imperfect ; style 

 filiform, stigma 2-3-lobed or undivided j ovules pendulous. Fruit indehiscent, 

 dry, 1-seeded, the two barren cells enlarged or reduced to filiform ridges. Seed 

 pendulous; albumen or scanty; embryo straight, radicle superior. DISTRIB. 

 Species 300, all cool and temperate regions except Australia and S. Africa. 



Stamen 1 , corolla yellow, calyx in fruit very small 1. PATRINIA. 



Stamens 4, corolla red, calyx in fruit equally 5- lobed 2. NARDOSTACHYS. 



Stamens 3, calyx pappose in fruit 3. VALERIANA. 



Stamens 3, calyx epappose in fruit 4. VALERIANELLA. 



1. PATRINIA, Juss. 



Erect, perennial herbs. Leaves entire or 1-2-pinnatifid or pinnate. Cymes 

 corymbosely panicled ; bracts narrow, free. Calyx-limb small or 0, not enlarged 

 in fruit. Corolla-tube short or long ; lobes 5, subequal, spreading, yellow. 

 Stamens 1, or 3-5. Ovary 3-celled ; stigma capitate ; ovules 1 in each cell, or 

 more often 2 cells barren. Fruit small, 3-celled, 1-seeded, the barren cells 

 equalling the fertile or nearly so. DISTRIB. Species 12, N. Asiatic and 

 Sikkina. 



1. P. monandra, C. B. Clarke ; corolla small symmetric shortly funnel- 

 shaped, stamen 1, fruit within an orbicular scarious veined bracteole. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 4000 ft.; Simonbong, J. D. H,; Yoksun, Hee, C. B. 

 Clarke. 



Stem 2-4 ft., pubescent. Leaves entire or pinnatifid, terminal lobe oblong or 

 linear, coa,rsely crenate-serrate or entire, sparsely pubescent. Panicle often 1^ ft. 

 long, and broad. Corolla ^ in. long. Stigma peltate. Bracteole of the fruit in. 

 diam., as broad or broader than long, beautifully veined. Hance (Symb. ad Fl. 

 Sinic. 5) does not mention the number of stamens in his P. araveolens, which may 

 hence be either the Indian plant or the 4-stamened P. ovata, Bunge (Nov. Gren. et Sp. 

 Chin.-et Monghol. 23, t. 2). 



2. NARDOSTACHYS, DC. 



Erect, perennial herbs. Leaves entire, radical elongate spathulate ; cauline 

 few. Flowers capitate, heads in cymes ; bracts oblong, free or nearly so. Calyx- 

 limb 5-lobed ; in fruit enlarged, membranous, veined. Corolla tubular-campanu- 

 late, base subequal ; lobes 5, spreading, rosy. Stamens 4. Ovary 3-celled, 

 1-ovuled; style linear, stigma capitate. Fruit obovate, compressed, 3-celled, 1- 

 seeded, the 2 barren cells smaller than the fertile. Seed obovate, compressed. 



